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🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Thomas tells us how his father's high expectations led him to pursue a demanding career he neither wanted nor was highly skilled at. At a pivotal moment at university he made a calamitous choice that undid years of study and nearly wrecked his career.
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0:00.0 | What's your secret? |
0:02.0 | Okay, so when we were younger, we weren't really allowed to have too many sweets only |
0:07.0 | because my brother would consume so much sugar sometimes he would just act like a gremlin. |
0:12.9 | So my mom was just totally against his having sugar. |
0:15.6 | So we would just raid the freezer and popsicles and eat sugar packets when no one was looking. |
0:22.7 | So my mom had hidden quite a few of like ice cream sandwiches and nutty buddies towards |
0:27.8 | the back of the freezer. |
0:28.8 | My brother and I discovered it all and we ate it and blamed it on my dad and it was |
0:33.2 | convenient because my dad liked sweets too and would blame it on us. |
0:36.9 | So there'd be a lot of scapegoats in the family. |
0:38.8 | So my mom decided to eliminate that and put a lock with a chain link around the freezer |
0:45.8 | so we couldn't open the freezer anymore. |
0:48.7 | Only my dad and my mom had a key. |
0:51.1 | So after a little bit of thinking I thought, okay, you know what we'll do is we'll just |
0:55.3 | take a hacksaw and we'll start cutting the chain link and then we can slip the chain |
0:59.8 | link around the back of the refrigerator and it looked like my dad did it. |
1:04.0 | So my dad just getting yelled at like, hey you huck them all the ice cream sandwiches |
1:08.6 | are taking all the ice creams gone and my dad's like, what? |
1:11.5 | No, I know I didn't do that and my brother and I are giggling. |
1:14.7 | So I don't know maybe when they moved their house and a couple houses ago they saw the |
1:20.4 | chain link but I'm not so sure they did and I, to this day my dad still doesn't know |
1:24.5 | that we took all the ice cream and he got the blame for it for all those years. |
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