on my descent into the living hell i was hired on at a gas station in EVARTS KENTUCKY and it wasn't too long afterward that the assistant manager in KNOXVILLE got his butt fired. and WADE who was the brother to the man who was married to my father's sister wanted me to move there to take over the job. WADE had about 12 stations he managed which strung across THE SOUTHEASTERN part of KENTUCKY plus he had the one in KNOXVILLE. in time he caught the manager there stealing money and canned him too. and i was left as manager. my uncle who was married to DARLENE dad's sister was sent there to help me to get orientated as he used to manage the EVARTS station. he was a big crook and talked me into helping him steal gas the first day on the job. it was a simple procedure which involved loosening the four bolts which held the pump computer in place, and lifting it up to remove the main pin. as long as the pin was out meant that the pump would pump out the gasoline and not register in the computer. and as long as the record showed that there was more gas in the huge underground tanks then was on the books,, we could pump it into our gas tanks and nothing would show it. this became the reason that i eventually got terminated. you see i was lining people up for free gas in exchange for drugs. the drugs we sold off to others making a profit plus we took some of them ourselves. quaaludes (a high strength downer) were on the list as well as pot, and hashish and cocaine. and we stole gas daily. when the truck drivers came to fill the gas tanks underground. they would let us empty what was left in the truck to put in our cars. what a racket we had going. and eventually they caught on to what was taking place. all of us were ordered to go take a polygraph. several of the drivers did not show up and were fired. i did show up and got fired. i must have thought that i could beat the polygraph machine but the man told WADE i was stealing him blind. so he took my keys and fired me. after that i ended up sleeping in a motel with DEBBIE who was the girl that i married with another's child. while she worked at the gas station (i hired her on). this is when she started to mess around with my friend DONNIE PHELPS............more to come.