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Posted on 6/13/22 at 8:42 am to CocomoLSU
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was not really knowing either of my grandfathers
I knew one of them. He had three fingers on his left hand removed in an industrial accident. He finished out his days as a night watchmen at that plant. I went to work with him at night a couple times as a kid, he was a funny dude.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 8:42 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Both my grandma and mom were incredible, strong women. Not the collective, whiny bitches of the current day.
Yep. My mom was 4' 8" tall, and no man would mess with her. She had no issue pulling out the shotgun on a salesman that wouldn't take no and leave.
I describe people today as simply soft and weak. We are going to be rolled by someone without resistance in the coming years.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 8:42 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:looking back now i realize my grandparents barely had 2 pennies to rub together but their life was more full than anyone i've known since. not a wasted minute.
My grandma was amazing. Her husband died driving a truck after returning from WWII, her next husband had a heart attack two weeks after they were married. She worked two jobs in a chicken plant, while my teenage mom ran the family farm and raised her siblings.
Both my grandma and mom were incredible, strong women. Not the collective, whiny bitches of the current day.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 8:44 am to CAD703X
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i miss him so much. he made me realize what a soft entitled piece of crap i was even as a little kid.
He would love Amazon for their efficiency and vast array of products.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 8:47 am to CAD703X
I only had one grandpa ,the other one had died a week after I was born. The one I had was a Rock Island railroad employee on the bridge and building gang. We he retired he was physically broken, he could barely walk. He wanted to drop an ' atom bum' on Washington DC and hated 'dam dirty hippies'.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 8:47 am to CAD703X
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looking back now i realize my grandparents barely had 2 pennies to rub together but their life was more full than anyone i've known since. not a wasted minute.
Much more tragedy in their lives. My mom lost her dad, stepdad before she was 12, lost her youngest brother later.
Her brother was one of the best athletes in Arkansas as a freshman. His town still has a memorial set up at the entrance to the stadium. He drowned at 15 years of age.
Their lives were simpler, more tragic but much more meaningful. Meaning has disappeared from most philosophies.
This post was edited on 6/13/22 at 8:50 am
Posted on 6/13/22 at 8:54 am to CAD703X
Posted on 6/13/22 at 8:56 am to CAD703X
I’m glad you had good experiences with your grandfather.
One of mine was a total a-hole and the other one died when I was 1.
One of mine was a total a-hole and the other one died when I was 1.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 8:57 am to mikelbr
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He would love Amazon for their efficiency and vast array of products.
Mine probably wouldn't. He liked quality products, which means a lot of personal involvement. Amazon stuff is primarily chinesium, the domestic stuff isn't that great of a deal anymore.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 9:04 am to kywildcatfanone
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Good, hard working, older people are dying and being replaced by metrosexual transvestites with nose rings and hoops the size of a baseball in their ears.
Meh. The metrosexual transvestites with nose rings and hoops the size of a baseball in their ears are just placed on a pedestal by the media, with their lifestyle being marketed heavily to younger people for political reasons.
It's actually a great time to be a younger millennial with some ambition and work ethic, especially as the boomers retire. We do exist. You just can't afford us at the moment because we are in VERY short supply.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 9:05 am to DeltaTigerDelta
I live 3 miles from that plant.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 9:13 am to CAD703X
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My granddad was better than anyone currently living and its not even close
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he'd sell them ball point pens and pocket knives out of the trunk of his car.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 9:17 am to CAD703X
My Papaw was one of my favorite person ever. Every now and again I'll go to the gun cabinet, pick up his Model 12, and just sit on my back porch holding it and think of him.
Posted on 6/13/22 at 9:17 am to CAD703X
I have some of those memories also. My father's father died when the year I was born. My mother's father lived to be 80 and was the nicest man I have ever met. Too bad he married a bitch for a wife but was too loyal to divorce her. They only had one child and she was just like her dad. Nobody like the black gumball. Is that racist?
Posted on 6/13/22 at 9:24 am to CAD703X
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we got in his car and drove to visit an old black man he knew named Sam and eat sweet potatoes right off the stove in the back of his shotgun house. i clearly remember my granddad burning his fingers trying to hold the thing and eat it.
Your grandfather was in an interracial gay relationship? Very progressive of him!
Posted on 6/13/22 at 9:25 am to CAD703X
My dad - who was a chemical engineer - never missed a day of work in 55 years. Even in the blistering cold weather, when temperatures were below zero and with windchill were down to -20, he'd wake up at 5am and go shovel the snow and ice off the driveway (which was on an incline) so that he could go to work. He's almost 78 and has never said a single curse word in his entire life. Even though he's a millionaire he still drives a late-90s Toyota Tercel and wears the same clothes he wore when I was a kid, all so that me and my sister can inherit everything when he passes. Still mows his own lawn. Never missed a single sporting event or awards ceremony when I was a kid, no matter how busy he was. Ironically, as a retirement gift the company gave him a Rolex. He never even opened the box.
This post was edited on 6/13/22 at 7:04 pm
Posted on 6/13/22 at 9:29 am to CAD703X
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at 75 when i would stay for a week with them in the summer my granddad would make fun of me for eating 'late breakfast' at 6am when i woke up. he'd already eaten breakfast and tossed the cold hungry jack biscuits to the squirrels.
First off your granddad is eating or making hungry jack biscuits instead of home made biscuits. Second. Those scraps should be going to the hogs or the chickens. 3rdly he should not have been done milking the cows at 6am. Takes til at least 8:30 even if you got an early start at 3:30.
Your grandad may have been a fine man but I know many of greater and tougher souls than anyone making hungry jack biscuits. That's disgraceful to a whole generation of southerners. Many of whom died fighting in WW2, Korea, or Vietnam.
This post was edited on 6/13/22 at 9:30 am
Posted on 6/13/22 at 9:32 am to CAD703X
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my granddad would make fun of me for eating 'late breakfast' at 6am when i woke up.
What time did pawpaw go to bed?
Posted on 6/13/22 at 9:36 am to CAD703X
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This post was edited on 6/13/22 at 9:38 am
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