Just Plain John Wayne

So the Calico Scallop industry was winding down in Florida......

People complaining about the smell, the use of 200 and some gallons of potable water to process a gallon of the meats on shore in the plants.....

BTW nobody died digging in that old ordenance dump site, they just caught a bunch of old bullets......

The Vonna Shrimp company out of Jacksonville Fla. was doing reserch and devolopment with the Royal Red shrimp in 1200 feet of water off the coast, well out into the Gulf Stream......

When the shuttle blew up and help from around the world helped, and the pussy eating French that had one of them deep water submarines could not see for the Red Shrimp there.....

So I had about decided to go to deeper water and further away from all those assholes (Snow Birds and Ding Batters) in Florida that think they own the open Ocean.....

BTW Archie Bunker did NOT invent the word "Ding Bat"....

We Carolinamen did talking about Sport Fishermen.......

Meat Head yes, but Ding Bat, NO.......

So a Bloody Irishman talked me into taking/applying for a position for a 50K a year in Costa Rica job cash.....

One of the owners, a powerfull Tico, came to Canaveral and interviewed me and hired me on the spot.....

They were working 500 fathoms of water for shrimp, stealing from Nicaragua on the Pacific side......

An unheard of depth for trawlers......

Needless to say, this got my attention.......

The Vonnas were only working 200 fathoms at best.....

My son Wayne Lawarnce hadn't long been born, and Dorothy was not very old at the time......

I moved my family to Costa Rica, set them up in a nice home up on a hillside, coffee plants, pineapples, bannanas, and hired 2 "Domesticas" to care for them and went to work cureing machinacal problems for TALMANA SA......

92 men I had under me and I spoke not a word of Spanish......

Try that on for size......

They did give me a young man for a translator from Bluefields Nicaragua to start till I put him to doing something else.....

And two complete idiot assholes, one the GM, Jacinto Gonzales, and the other one "Pin Pin" (I cannot remember his name that I replaced)........

Them two Fu*kers made war with me from day one.....

My translator told me, Why don't I fight back?

Nobody wins in a dog fight, I let them kill themselves, and it worked.........

My wife Judy fell into a rum bottle from her past and could not crawl back out, God, for Dorothy and Wayne, I wanted help for the mother....

And I found none from her father, as a matter of fact, he threatened me with all the weight of his legal friends in the US.....

Looking back now I think they all knew she had been in and out of rehab there many times before we got together.....

If I had it to do all over again, it would be a completely different story, I have more balls now......

I chickened out, I was intimadated by him, I am crying now writeing this......

I sent them all back to Florida, money was not a problem......

Later Judy took a 10 inch butcher knife and tried to finish her life, I mean cut her aorta and spent a year in the hospitol, I was told she was not expected to live......

And Dorothy and Wayne were adopted out........

To a nice Woman named Patricia in Jaxonville.......

And I love her, sight unseen, for raising my/Her children....

I have left a lot of blanks in here and I will try and fill them in later.....

JW