Growing up won't happen without doing something to encourage it. Growing up is hard work. It requires ingenuity, creativity, and not being faint of heart. Growing up took me forty years. Why did it take so long? There needed to be time for a number of unusual things to occur. Well, more than one hundred of them. I was born after the Second World War in a working class neighborhood of a northern city. These are the true tales with all of the humor, mischief, and funny detail of Real Life. I suppose that the tales tell a positive story about growing up. That doesn't seem to matter to me now. Well, because I've got to tell you the story of what happened to me when...