Ken Padgett

Ken Padgett Historian - Freelance Writer - Webmaster San Diego, CA Talking about myself in the third person and the constant repetition of my name might sound like a bad case of megalomania, but it's just "spider food" for search engines. Kenneth William Padgett Biography Ken Padgett was born in California. His father was career Navy and his mother was a housewife. Ken's parents were separated when he was only four years old and his mom moved the family from Florida to a Washington DC area suburb in Maryland. They were divorced soon after. His mom went to work at the Census Bureau Publications Group and stayed there till she retired. Ken's first job was working as a shoe shine boy at "Frank's Barber Shop" at the tender age of 13. At 14, an opportunity came up to take on a friend's paper route so he quit Frank's. A couple of months later he was offered an adjoining paper route and a chance to work on a truck early Sunday mornings as a "j...

  While I was in the Army in the early 70s, I was stationed in a little picturesque town Southeast of Frankfurt, Germany called Büdingen that grew up in and around a castle built in the 1200s.    It was a great place to be stationed, but there wasn't a lot of action there, so we usually went to Frankfurt for that. But most evenings we hung out in the local gasthaus (bar), drinking beer, shooting pool and playing fooseball. One quiet night, I was hanging out with some friends in the gasthaus, when the door opened and much to my surprise a stream of girls started coming in. It turned out to be a group of 17 year old high school girls on a field trip. I couldn't believe my good luck! It wasn't long before I hooked up with a ...

I used to ignore "Friend Requests" on Facebook from strangers .  As an experiment, I started accepting nearly all of them . That app arently moved my profile a bit higher in the algorithm that determines Facebook's " People you may know" offering shown to others, and that triggered a lot more "Friend Requests." That seemed like a good thing until these people started hitti ng me up via Messenger. I t soon became apparent that many people are trolling Facebook for lonely old fol ks to "make friends" and then take advantage of their generosity , and sometimes gullibility.  What follows are screen s hots of the actu al conversations, so you can see what they were as king for and how long it took them to get from "Hello" to " Send Mon ey!" or "Help Me" etc. " Johnson Vic" wants a sugar daddy: Mohily Soliman Soliman wants a visa: Kabugho Ellen Dora wants hel...