When I was growing up, I was always left to my own devices. My parents were never around and didn’t have any rules for me so it is suffice to say that I turned out pretty good considering the circumstances.
I had an Italian Muslim boyfriend who lived in a mansion at the age of 16 whom I spent 65% of the year with on his bed. That’s a lot of time spent overnight on his bed considering we both had school to attend everyday. Our relationship was frowned upon from the start by the school and his parents. We were too ‘young’ to be in a relationship but being the rebel that I am, soon found ways to meet.
All I had to do was tell my parents I was sleeping over at a friend’s place – honestly, they didn’t care who, what, why or when. I would take a taxi out to his place just before midnight when people usually settled into their bedrooms. When I arrived, I’d stop the cab a few blocks away from his house and walked. I’d hide in the drain outside his house (it was a big drain which I climbed into and out of a lot!) and wait for his signal that his parents were safely in their bedroom.
Once the coast was clear, I would leave my school bag in the drain (too heavy with books) and climb his electrical gate that he had disconnected including all house alarms. It was like something out of Alias and I did it so well, watching quickly around for cars or people, even people looking out of neighbourhood windows, before I made the quick climb and drop off.
Then there was a detailed track that I had to follow in the grounds avoiding potential disaster areas to get to a huge overturned flower pot which encased the rope to my paradise. It was a one and a half inch diameter rope of eight metres long with boyscout knots at every two feet taught to us by a classmate of ours who was a pro at knot tying. Carrying the heavy rope along my treasure trail, I would barefootedly creep to just under his bedroom window at first level and wait for the next signal.
Directly below his window were the maids’ rooms windows which I had to pass vertically each time I made the army climb up which I mastered with my then athletic body. The knots allowed a grip for my big toe and second toe while I pulled myself up after he had released a nylon string with a weight so I could hook the rope onto and then he could pull the rope back up in order to fasten it to a construction piece on his planter box to take my weight. After I climbed into the planter box, we pulled up the rope and hid it in the high cupboards above just in case any of his parents decided to do a midnight search.
In the very early morning, I would make my descent in darkness and return the rope to the overturned flower pot and do exactly as I’d come in, except the opposite. I then got into my school uniform in the hidden drain and walked out to catch a cab to school. Hey, at least I didn’t miss school!
Once, a friend of mine who was so enthralled by the whole drama of my misadventures, wanted to try climbing my secret rope. We crazilly agreed but at first attempt, she had already swung and banged the wall which garnered immediate suspicion from the maids. Plan aborted pronto.
I wonder, what are some of the crazy things you used to do as a kid?
**************************************************************************Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.
Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.
She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.
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Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.
