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Dads3040
Okie Mom
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quote:Originally posted by Dads3040
FCD, you have some of the most amazing stories. And the best part, is that you lived through them.
I don't suppose there is a picture showing the look on your face after the Big Bang? [;)]
Doesn't everyone have stories like these? Just seems like another day to me. There was a period in my life when I woke up every day and wondered if I would see the sun set, and it just seemed like it was normal. I wasn't angry about it, it was just the way it was. I committed many of these experiences to memory to reflect on later.
The irony of that story is it involved heat, and most of my really harrowing stories involve extreme cold. And yes, you are correct; the best part is I survived. Sadly, many of my best friends did not, and it is for this reason I remember all these things in such detail.
Cold is much harder to describe though, so I'm still working on how to frame some of those stories. I spent much of my late teens into my late 20's outside, every day. The Cold slows everything down (like slow motion), and it's every bit as dangerous as an instantaneous flash like the story above, but it just goes on and on...and on, never letting up.
I can remember getting up at oh-dark-thirty, sitting on the edge of my bed and thinking the day ahead would be beyond possible. To cope I'd have to break the day up into chunks, with the first one being if I could just get my truck started (when it was -38F and the wind blowing at about 50mph). Then the next 'chunk' would be if I could just get to the job site 80-100 miles away out in the boonies. And so on. In retrospect, to me, those days seem orders of magnitude harder/more dangerous than the one in the story. The car paint story was one you could laugh about over a beer; the extreme cold stories you couldn't really even talk about because there was nothing funny. And it went on...and on.
My email through here should work, if it doesn't let me know.
Thanks again!
I'm going to leave the forum for a while and take a break. Would you please take this opportunity to think about what's important in your life? I'm sure you have better things to do than be a thorn in my side.
However, if you simply cannot mind your own business and not needle me at every opportunity just say so and I'm done. You make this experience so unpleasant for me that I would rather be gone than have to take your little jibes any longer.
Hopefully your recuperation is coming along good and you'll be back on your feet soon.
If I had known about the great happy juice they give you, I would have had my wisdom teeth taken out one at a time. [:D]
I'm an 8!
-Ken-
Hope it went good for you and that you're back up and at 'em soon!