i was in st pete,so i can't clarify sammie's story for her,but i will tell you that something like what she's talking about happened to me 2 times......both times on an "open meeting day/night".....for one reason or another,i couldn't go to the bathroom when i was allowed...later i needed to,but the staff member i asked decided to be a dick.....and didn't answer me or thought it was amusing to him that i needed this one simple thing>to go to the bathroom!......after waiting for awhile,i thought he forgot and desparatly asked ANOTHER staff member for permission.....then all of a sudden,the "trainee" i asked first,came in when i had my hand up and had the other staff member call on me....i asked again.then they called on the "trainee" i asked first,and i got blasted for "playing off"!!!! meanwhile i had to go....well,my consequense was that i wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom! i had to hold it the rest of the day....those sadistic assholes ...
i tried as hard as i could,but pissed my pants in /during open meeting.....then in open meeting review,they confronted me and made me parade myself in front of the girls side as well...it was a very humiliating experience to say the least.even at 41-42,its still very humiliating to tell anyone that....ginger and sammie were in the same time period i was....honestly,i can't speak first hand for sammie,cause she was in sarasota and i was in st pete,but that was the way str8 was in the early days....if she says that happened,it very well could have!a lot of bad things happened to kids back then!i experienced many of the horrible things that place had to dole out on ppl first hand!the only differences between the 2 were miller {the newt} newton....but i was in sarasota 2 times for an hour or so while i was waiting to see a doctor down there for my hearing loss problems and sarasota was a shit hole as far as comparing the buildings....it was never designed to be a place to house ppl....no insulation etc.....so it was very cold in the winter and very warm in the summer.....it was definatly the "poorest" straight of them all.....never had a steady staff
so everytime a person started to progress,they had to deal with huckle bucks that didn't know they're progress and many kids got humped in the process because of it!.....shit sammie went in when she was 12 1/2.....how many drugs could shew have possibly done?.....i look at my daughter now{13} and i wonder why or how anyone could've possibly thought she "needed" that place! even if she did a joint,that couldn't have justified placing her in there! if she misbehaved,it doesn't surprise me! at 12 1/2 i would've been the same way! shit man,think.....she was just BEGINING to become a young lady!the sickest part about her maturity was she LEARNED it from total strangers in straight! not her MOTHER!!!! we were all kids in there,for the most part,but sammie really was....if she says that happened to her,there's a very good chance it did man.....