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We think of these guys as orthopedic shoe wearing, TV guide reading, get off my lawn grumpy assholes but god damn did they live rich lives. My grandpa used to tell me about running from the cops in his old hopped up Chevy. He didn't even brag about it either. When I asked if he ever ran from the cops he'd just say "Yeah I'd run off and leave em if I didn't want to stop". Later on he would see them at the diner and they'd wink at each other like it was nothing.
He liked living vicariously through me and would ask me "What did you do today kid?". I'd be like well first I stopped at Starbucks to start my day with a Vanilla chai tea....kids temperature of course....then I got to work and struggled all day to get the copy machine to feed paper correctly. After work I headed down to Walgreens to pick up a snuggie before going home and watching a rerun of the Royal Wedding. He would pretend like that sounded like a good day but I know in his head he was thinking wtf is wrong with kids these days?
Back in his day he was up at 4am welding together turnpikes and shit. Forging the infrastructure of America. By 3pm he was already at the bar getting tanked up...cracking the skulls of some Hells Angels. When the cops were hot on his ass as he's leaving the bar, he'd downshift that sumbitch into 3rd and head up to the hills where he would shower under a waterfall and make love to a wild Indian woman. On his way back down he would take a service call at the railroad and by 11pm he was back at home knocking boots with my grandma.
These guys deserve our respect so stay the fuck off their lawns.
He liked living vicariously through me and would ask me "What did you do today kid?". I'd be like well first I stopped at Starbucks to start my day with a Vanilla chai tea....kids temperature of course....then I got to work and struggled all day to get the copy machine to feed paper correctly. After work I headed down to Walgreens to pick up a snuggie before going home and watching a rerun of the Royal Wedding. He would pretend like that sounded like a good day but I know in his head he was thinking wtf is wrong with kids these days?
Back in his day he was up at 4am welding together turnpikes and shit. Forging the infrastructure of America. By 3pm he was already at the bar getting tanked up...cracking the skulls of some Hells Angels. When the cops were hot on his ass as he's leaving the bar, he'd downshift that sumbitch into 3rd and head up to the hills where he would shower under a waterfall and make love to a wild Indian woman. On his way back down he would take a service call at the railroad and by 11pm he was back at home knocking boots with my grandma.
These guys deserve our respect so stay the fuck off their lawns.