Mark was born a poor white child on the wrong side of the tracks that run along Charles Page Blvd. from Sand Springs to Tulsa. That's really all I know about his childhood.
I am not going to tell Mark stories in chronological order, instead they will be sorted roughly by how interesting or funny they are. There may be considerable ammounts of profanity in these stories. Here's a quick one:
One afternoon at the shop, Mark was strolling around in the garage with a freshly purchased loaf of white bread. I inquired as to what he was doing and he simply replied "Shut up, Paul." I continued working on the task at hand, replacing the brake pads on a customers GMC Sierra. Mark stood behind me supervising my work. Mark opened the loaf of bread and ate several slices dry. Many crumbs dropped onto the floor behind me and I confronted Mark saying "Hey, I got to sweep up that mess, mother fucker." Mark kicked a broom towards me and told me to start sweeping. "I'll finish them brakes, you sweep this shit up." I stood, taking the broom and handing the brake wrench to Mark. He shook his head, refusing the wrench. "Watch this," he said, "This is how a man fixes brakes." As I watched, Mark took four slices of bread and wadded them up into a doughy lump. He then shoved the bread into the break caliper. "There, now they got those new low noise bread-pads." He laughed. "What the fuck man?" I inquired, "Now I got to clean that shit up too." "Yeah you do." he replied. He then laughed and walked away muttering softly to himself.