Plumbing, golf and wife

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Mike McAllister

OTISFIELD – For Mike McAllister being a plumber has become a family tradition, but he really would rather be holding a golf club instead of than a pipe wrench. Being able to do both makes McAllister a happy man.

Q: Where were your born and where were you brought up?

A: I was born in Anchorage, Alaska, but I was raised in Otisfield.

Q: Do you have many siblings?

A: I have one sister.

Q: What did your parents do?

A: My father was always a plumber and my mother worked in banking.

Q: What was it like growing up?

A: It was great. I knew all the neighbors and could go to town meetings and know about 75 percent of the people there. That’s not so any longer.

Q: Was there anything you wanted to be when you grew up?

A: I wanted to be a rich farmer – a real fantasy!

Q: Where did you go to school?

A: Otisfield, Oxford and Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School.

Q: Did you get into mischief or play pranks?

A: Not that I wish to talk about.

Q: What have you had for jobs?

A: I’ve been in plumbing since I was 12. I recently started working at L. M. Longley and Sons in Norway.

Q: When and how did you meet your spouse?

A: She worked at a store by my house.

Q: What did you do for work when you got married?

A: I was a plumber.

Q: Anyone ever said you look like someone famous?

A: No.

Q: Did you do much traveling?

A: I’ve worked from Ellsworth to Dover-Foxcroft to Bethel to Kittery and all points in between. That’s the traveling that I’ve done.

Q: Did anyone influence you to the point of changing your direction in life?

A: My father; he’s why I’m a plumber.

Q: Do you collect anything or have a hobby?

A: I play as much golf as I can.

Q: What is the last book you read?

A: I really can’t remember.

Q: What subject to you wish you knew more about?

A: Life in general.

Q: What is the one thing you would not give up?

A: My wife!

Q: What is the one thing you would happily do over again?

A: Marry my wife!

Q: Do you have any children?

A: I have never fathered any.

Q: What is the best memory this interview brought back?

A: My childhood and growing up in Otisfield.

Q: If anyone could walk in right now, whom would you most like to see?

A: Tiger Woods.

Q: Any heroes?

A: No, not really.

Q: Any regrets?

A: My early 20’s.

Q: What scares you the most?

A: Losing my wife.

Q: Where do you see yourself in ten years?

A: Hopefully still working at Longley’s.

Q: Last day on earth, what would you do and with whom?

A: I’d golf with anybody that would play with me.