Are there any DIY home repair type stores you can call, nearby? Hell, I bet almost every MFG plant in town would love to get rid of some.
I’ll kill some time by giving an example of why ALL my grand kids call me grumpa meany. Which my oldest coined.
My oldest great grand daughter used to come out every summer here to California from St Louis for a couple weeks during summer break from school. Started when she was maybe 10 years old so, I hadda be somewhere around 65 or so and I could still ride a bike. Hell, I was on a bike until my mid 70’s.
We always rented the same cabin in the foot hills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, near the Calivera Big Tree State Park. The Sequoias. (That tree you could drive a truck through blew down the last year she came out. Poor kid saw it and grandma had to hold her while she cried. She loved that huge sucker!)
Anyway, there was a steep road, very near the cabin that we took to riding down dangerously fast. The wife would pace us with the flashers on the truck going to help keep us safe. And to take up back up the hill to do it again.
First time we went, I let her be in front and she yelled something that I didn’t hear. (Deaf left ear at birth) Then she came to a stop so she could watch me hit the DIP that she tried to warn me about. Dip my ass, it was a pot hole worthy of a Michigan road after winter.
Had to get a new rim before we could go down the hill again. She says, “Didn’t you hear me yell DIP?!”
Nope. Since then my nic name for her has been DIP!
One afternoon, she (Cassandra) and her boyfriend (Nate) called to announce their engagement. I said, “Hey, DIP! I’ll call Nate shit, and when you get married, I’ll call you a couple of dip shits. It’ll be all downhill from there!”
Just the kinda guy I am…
If meat is just something to put cheese on, grand kids are just something to pick on.
Couple of my nieces are twins. When they were around 5, I told them they were redundant. (I like to help build vocabularies) One of them said, “What’s that mean?” I said “One of you is a backup.” Then had to explain what a spare tire was.
My daddy always told me, entertainment at someone else’s expense is a great value.
Incidentally, the girl was born in Hawaii as her parents were in the Army at Schofield Barracks. When we were on the phone talking about her engagement, I suggested she go to her place of birth for their honeymoon.
She’s like. Um’ I was born in Hawaii, remember? I said, “Well I suggest you take your honey moon in late December or February so you can see the whales.”
Dunno why, but she and I have always been the closest. We were their when she was born.
And for others in the future.
