Sigarms
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I called an old friend up north to get his opinion on something.
Called his company (my old phone destroyed by mower accident eraced all my non working contacts LOL), and had to explain to the woman that the owner was a old friend of mine. She put me on hold...
His son picked up the phone and is running the company now (doing very well and having over 20 employees). He explained his dad retired and moved a little bit more aways and is living on farm enjoying retirement.
He asked me who I was again...
I explained I was the guy who would come over to their house and go out shooting with his dad at the gun club and sometimes even dinner at their house (I was single back then). It was kind of funny, he actually remembered me and rememberd that I worked with both his dad and his grandfather, before they even started their company.
This man I was talking to was probably about 10 years old when I knew him. I asked him about his older brother (who I knew enlisted in the navy years ago) and it turns out he's working at the family company as well.
We actually talked about some people who both his dad I knew and worked with, he explained on one guy I knew well had passed away last year. He remembered a co worker of mine up there and asked me about him (as he retired years ago and he didn't know what happened to him) and I explain I had just talked to him on the phone a couple of weeks ago and he's not doing the best with some health issues, (he's in his mid 70's now).
Probably ended up spending 30 minutes with him on the phone with him.
When I got off the phone, I was now feeling REALLY old.
Called his company (my old phone destroyed by mower accident eraced all my non working contacts LOL), and had to explain to the woman that the owner was a old friend of mine. She put me on hold...
His son picked up the phone and is running the company now (doing very well and having over 20 employees). He explained his dad retired and moved a little bit more aways and is living on farm enjoying retirement.
He asked me who I was again...
I explained I was the guy who would come over to their house and go out shooting with his dad at the gun club and sometimes even dinner at their house (I was single back then). It was kind of funny, he actually remembered me and rememberd that I worked with both his dad and his grandfather, before they even started their company.
This man I was talking to was probably about 10 years old when I knew him. I asked him about his older brother (who I knew enlisted in the navy years ago) and it turns out he's working at the family company as well.
We actually talked about some people who both his dad I knew and worked with, he explained on one guy I knew well had passed away last year. He remembered a co worker of mine up there and asked me about him (as he retired years ago and he didn't know what happened to him) and I explain I had just talked to him on the phone a couple of weeks ago and he's not doing the best with some health issues, (he's in his mid 70's now).
Probably ended up spending 30 minutes with him on the phone with him.
When I got off the phone, I was now feeling REALLY old.