shell knob

Thomas
I used to live in Shell Knob, Missouri. It was in the seventh grade. The town was a terrible place. I had never done any drug before I moved there. I had always been the kind of guy that would never touch drugs before I moved there. It is amazing what can happen with enough influence. Even though moving there and becoming friends with all of these kids that used drugs is awful, I think I gained more then I lost by experiencing that town. I smoked weed for the first time, I actually fought it even though every friend I had there did it. I didn’t try it until I had lived there for a few months. My mom also had a downfall with drugs in this town. She met a guy and she got deep into cooking and selling drugs. The reason im glad that I experienced all of this is because I realized I never wanted to end up like any of these people in this town. My mom got busted for intent to distribute, and went to prison. My younger brother got addicted to weed and pills. I blame this horrible drug inhabited town for this. We had to go live with my grandparents for a couple years because my mom went to prison. My brother never stopped doing drugs to this day. My mom has been clean and working for 4 years now though. I thank god every da y that my mom was able to get off of drugs and get a hold of her life. I tried everything I could to help my brother, but he is a lost cause. I tell him what hes doing is stupid and is going to get him killed or in prison. He calls me an idiot and acts like im being immature or something. I finnaly stopped even trying. I realized how pointless it is. He is just like our older brother, worse even. Atleast my brother can get clean if he needs to be, which he is now because he just had a kid. All in all im glad we moved there in the sense that it helped shape the way I am today, but very upset that my brother turned out the way he did.
Shell Knob was a small town about an hour away from springfield. It has a main highway with a few stores, mostly boat, fishing, and water sports equipment ro rentals, because it was right on the lake. There was a bridge that went over the lake about 50 feet above the water which was very fun to jump off of. There was a pizza hut by the bridge with a cement trail leading from the lake to the pizza hut for the swimmers and walk on to get some food. We were staying in the most ghetto doublewide trailer imaginable. It was two normal size trailers conjoined with a small hallway connector thing. We lived on what was sort of like a dirtroad subdivision. There were dirt roads on both sides of my house and for a few more rows on each side. All filled with houses and trailers. The lake was in walking distance fom our house .