Fuddyduddy1952
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I'll try the Reader's Digest version:
First day of high school, new school & students, home room some crazy looking guy in back of class making paper airplanes & talking to himself so I sat beside him. No...he's not my husband!
He was a straight A student but a fruitcake, which is why I befriended him.
His parents kicked him out when he was 17 so he lived in his $50 car up in the woods eating beans cooked in his hubcap.
Finally he got a job after a short stint in the Army, discharged for eating peanut butter off of a toilet seat.
He rented a cheap apartment in town from an old lady, a heroin addict who always wore raincoat & galoshes & was an ex-stripper.
There were these cute girls in that neighborhood, one was very tall (love at first sight) and they walked up to my friends apartment to watch him boil an opossum he had killed with a bedroom shoe.
(I swear it's all true and I've never used drugs ).
Anyway I started dating the tall girl, and ironically discovered when my mother & her parents moved to town from Syracuse in 1934 they rented a house just a few doors down from my wife's parents twenty years before wife was born and only fairly recently discovered my Dad and her Mother both worked at Sears (so my wife is my sister......kidding, I made that part up), but as very young kids my wife & I went to Sears Christmas parties and we made faces at each other. I thought she was cute then, 51 years ago as teenagers, and now.
She talked me into going in business in the 70s...we worked together until retirement 10 years ago.
First day of high school, new school & students, home room some crazy looking guy in back of class making paper airplanes & talking to himself so I sat beside him. No...he's not my husband!
He was a straight A student but a fruitcake, which is why I befriended him.
His parents kicked him out when he was 17 so he lived in his $50 car up in the woods eating beans cooked in his hubcap.
Finally he got a job after a short stint in the Army, discharged for eating peanut butter off of a toilet seat.
He rented a cheap apartment in town from an old lady, a heroin addict who always wore raincoat & galoshes & was an ex-stripper.
There were these cute girls in that neighborhood, one was very tall (love at first sight) and they walked up to my friends apartment to watch him boil an opossum he had killed with a bedroom shoe.
(I swear it's all true and I've never used drugs ).
Anyway I started dating the tall girl, and ironically discovered when my mother & her parents moved to town from Syracuse in 1934 they rented a house just a few doors down from my wife's parents twenty years before wife was born and only fairly recently discovered my Dad and her Mother both worked at Sears (so my wife is my sister......kidding, I made that part up), but as very young kids my wife & I went to Sears Christmas parties and we made faces at each other. I thought she was cute then, 51 years ago as teenagers, and now.
She talked me into going in business in the 70s...we worked together until retirement 10 years ago.