Ellis Jones

And so I go to the bathroom to put my uniform on, and I walk out to the counter, and he goes, you were born to wear that uniform.

Turned around and took the uniform off, dude, and brought it back and threw it over the counter.

That's it.

Went out to the beach, got a job barbacking and bussing tables.

And then eventually, like, when you're 16 and you're not going to school, right, and I don't know, it just – I had this chip on my shoulder.

I got down with a graffiti crew.

And I was like, I don't even need to work anymore.

Like I got into like organized retail theft and like vandalism was all I would do all day long.

I would go to department stores in Largo and steal shit.

I would take orders from people for groceries, for clothing, lunch for the kids that were still going to school.

You know, I would I had a shop set up.

Not a shop, but, I mean, I would, like, have my backpack at the spot where everybody would smoke cigarettes before they went into Largo High School, and I would, like, have a concession stand, basically, of shit that I would just steal.

And then I was hanging out with some older kids, and we'd go out and paint trains and ditches and shit at night.

I was just living, like, a 25-year-old lifestyle when I'm 16, and you can't do that.

Like, it's just a matter of time before...

You're going to end up locked up.

And I was dating an older chick.

That was pretty fun.

I mean, that was probably the best part of that whole year.

But my dad's like, he knows what's going on.