Continue On Saturday

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week:

“What can be more exciting than working with spuds?” my fathered asked me after graduation. I had just finished telling him I wanted to go to college. It was obvious he was perplexed. He never went to college, his father never went to college and his grandfather never went to college. Most of the family never went to highschool. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. All I knew was I didn’t want to be a potato farmer. Mrs Ellis, our school’s only guidance counseller who was also the school’s only English teacher, had me believing that a year in college would help me decide on a better option… no, not a better option, just different. And I wanted something different. Beyond…