"But the Dart-In-The Head story always gets everyone's attention. Like all of my other potentially self destructive escapades it proved that I was gifted in a backwards sort of way. I had talents that were the complete and total opposite of what my mom and dad thought I had. I was like Einstein in reverse, There was almost nothing I couldn't turn into a near disaster."
Being a clueless adolescent in the "heartland of suburbia" in the mid-1960's serves as a foundation for accidental self discovery and meaningful realizations about why you can never trust adults to understand a word you are saying or to behave as if they are actually the grown-ups. The author reveals the path to what life is really all about through the influence of unusual good friends, some really bad ideas, and a horse that wouldn't stop galloping.