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I got my first resortera when I was five years old, but when I became a teenager I stopped using them. I was told that I was too old to "play" with them, althought they were not a toy for me. I started to listen to rock music, watch music videos, play videogames, go to disco parties and look for a girlfriend, so I forgot about slingshots. I also started to attend middle school and also started to ditch school or skip clasess when possible. We used a slang word for ditching school it was "la Yesca" and the boys and girls who skipped school where called "yesqueros". I had a lot of fun, skipping school and sometimes, even skipping classes by jumping the fence of my middle school that was located right by the end of my town. Those were the days...
A few days ago when I started to work on this fork I notice that it had an almost perfect shape like a "Y" or as we say in Spanish a "ye". I recalled those days when I stopped using slingshots, to attend middle school and my teenage career as a "yesquero" and I tought why not to called it "La YESKA". La YESKA is made of mezquite and it fits petty good in my hand. It is the first one that I make with this shape, but I think is not going to be the last one, well I hope so
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As a teenager, I used to think that old people did not understand teenagers. A few days ago, I was walking by the Lerma river bank and I came across some old folks whose ages are sixty to eighty years old. They said hello to me and we started chatting about their good old days. One of they started to talk about ditching school when he was young and used the word "yesca" and refered to the boys and girls of his time as"yesqueros". I thought that the that slang word was used only by my generation and later, I was wrong. No wonder in Mexico, we call the people who has retired "jubilados" (jubilees). I had thought, I had retired from the slingshot world when I became a teenager years ago. Yeah right !! No way!! I just took a break, but I am back. As always any comments will be highly appreciated. FELIZ AÑO NUEVO. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
A few days ago when I started to work on this fork I notice that it had an almost perfect shape like a "Y" or as we say in Spanish a "ye". I recalled those days when I stopped using slingshots, to attend middle school and my teenage career as a "yesquero" and I tought why not to called it "La YESKA". La YESKA is made of mezquite and it fits petty good in my hand. It is the first one that I make with this shape, but I think is not going to be the last one, well I hope so
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As a teenager, I used to think that old people did not understand teenagers. A few days ago, I was walking by the Lerma river bank and I came across some old folks whose ages are sixty to eighty years old. They said hello to me and we started chatting about their good old days. One of they started to talk about ditching school when he was young and used the word "yesca" and refered to the boys and girls of his time as"yesqueros". I thought that the that slang word was used only by my generation and later, I was wrong. No wonder in Mexico, we call the people who has retired "jubilados" (jubilees). I had thought, I had retired from the slingshot world when I became a teenager years ago. Yeah right !! No way!! I just took a break, but I am back. As always any comments will be highly appreciated. FELIZ AÑO NUEVO. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
