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mjsnodgrass · Nov 22, 2016

my oldest boy, that lives in the city stopped by the other day. I love him, but he's always been a little different. now that he has married serious money, he's a lot different. I asked him if he'd like to see the new shop I was putting up. we headed back to see it when we ran into mud. he says to me " I can't go back there. I paid $200 for these shoes." I said to him "I paid $40 for these shoes, and I can walk anywhere I want. you got took." he looked at me like I was nutts. I still don't think he understood my joke.

Mark - IN. · Nov 22, 2016

I love my oldest sister dearly. I do. She isn't at all like the other members of our family, but I still love her dearly. I've asked our mother several times if she cheated with the milk man but she always says NO. Personally, I think she must have but just doesn't want to admit it. Just a theory I have.

Mark

NCWayne · Nov 23, 2016

Next time you talk to him tell him you know a man who gave $250 for a pair of boots, and then went home and stepped right in the mud (it was raining that day...LOL). Then continued to step in mud, oil, grease, and anything else that got in his way over the course of the work day.

To make it even worse, he (I) have done it twice, and will continue to do it until I no longer have a need for a really good work boot.

Bob Bancroft · Nov 23, 2016

Three offspring born to us, here in the country/on a farm. All long gone. I can't blame them, but the first two almost hated it here. I call them unfortunate city kids born in the country. Farming is not something you do, it's a whole lifestyle. Our older two detest it so much they can't hardly differentiate the farm from the farmers.

gwstang · Nov 23, 2016

Both of my boys were like that. Couldn't wait to get grown up and move to the big city. Now, one has moved back and lives across the road from us. The other has lamented how much nicer it is way out in the sticks and how much he misses driving the old Ford tractor. He's a big dog chef in Orlando. Couldn't give me enough money to live in Orlando. When I was little, my oldest sister was the real uppity type. She wouldn't learn how to drive in an Chevy Apache truck. That's what we had so take it or leave it. She didn't get her license until she was about 20 something and had gotten married and move to Atlanta. My other sister was really down to earth and an RN. She will anyone...including lost dogs etc. Can't stand to see anything suffer. I was about 14 and wanted a motorcycle in the worst kind of way. She would eat dinner and talk about the motorcycle accidents she had treated in the ER that week....no motorcycle for me. She sure could hit hard when I was little.... :shock:

dzc3 · Nov 23, 2016

Could it have been the Fuller Brush guy? or maybe the Watkins saleman....I always thought he was a weasel LOL

FBH44 · Nov 23, 2016

I know a multi-multi-multi millionaire, and every time he buys a new pickup he takes it out and runs it through the brush and trees, gets her all scraped up real good, then says "There, now I can quit worrying about it."

John B. · Nov 23, 2016

Our oldest, our daughter moved to her first apartment in St. Louis Mo., on Labor Day. She said it was hard to sleep the first month because of all the sirens. Now when she comes home she says how quiet it is here in the country. We only live one mile from town and can hear sirens but they're far and few between compared to where she lives.

Moonlite37 · Nov 23, 2016

When I was teaching in a rural community there was a large family and the boy's only winter income was from selling coon hides. The dad made the boys divide the hide money with the girls, The boys brought the animals home and made their sisters skin them, Years later, the oldest girl in a RN. I asked her if she could still skin a coon and she replied that she would. Pretty and my kund of woman.

Billy Shafer · Nov 23, 2016

I was on a movie location one time with Dennis Hopper. Lunch break and we headed for lunch. Big mud puddle between us and the lunch tent. All the other stars took the long way around. Dennis walked through the mud. Some one made a remark about it.Dennis told him. It will wash off. He was a great guy to work with.

rrlund · Nov 23, 2016

I don't understand the joke either. You were just telling the truth.

Goose · Nov 23, 2016

Our daughter once lived in an apartment in Washington DC that was on a main street to the Georgetown University Medical Center. I rarely had a telephone conversation with her that I didn't hear a siren at least once during the conversation.

She said that after a couple of weeks she tuned them out and never heard them.

The Dukester · Nov 23, 2016

I read somewhere about a guy who used to drive for Fowler McCormick (yeah, that McCormick family) is and he related about taking Fowler around to see International equipment being used and how Fowler would walk through mud, snow, or cows--t with his expensive dress Oxford shoes, suits and topcoats without batting an eye or saying a word.to get close to see the stuff work and talk to the user(s).

rrlund · Nov 23, 2016

My dad had so many jobs over the years that we always said all of had a different father. My oldest brother's father was a Marine,the next one's was the ice man,school bus driver etc. lol

Married2Allis · Nov 23, 2016

(quoted from post at 20:14:51 11/22/16) I love him, but he's always been a little different.

It's the other way around with my father and I. Been trying hard for the past 45 years to be friends with him but it's a lost cause. I've got twin girls who I love dearly but wished I also had a son.

Maybe one day when he falls on hard times (and he will), he'll change his mind and decide that you're worth paying attention to.

K Effective · Nov 23, 2016

I guess you should be happy that, as wealthy as he may be, he still takes good care of his stuff, and knows the right tool for the job. My dress shoes are not nearly $200 per pair, but I would not wear them out to the barn, either.

I didn't get lucky enough to have any of the three kids take to the farm like I had hoped, either. I think their mother had a lot to do with that, she hates it. They picked up on a lot of that. Still, they are good kids and I am proud of them. Just means I get to be the one that finally gets out of farming- either alive or not, we'll see.

stonerock · Nov 23, 2016

my work shoes are $150.00 they get muddy

dhermesc · Nov 23, 2016

Agreed. I have a $40,000 pickup, but its the $1,200 beater that gets fence post and rebar tossed in it.

RamblinMan · Nov 23, 2016

I was the child who wanted to farm but family sold out in the 60's before I had the chance. Never could find a farmer who needed someone to work. Now I live the dream here on
YT.

cool hand · Nov 23, 2016

No question like that among the five of us. We lived so far out in the sticks we had to keep our own tom cat!! LOL

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