One of my favorite stories...cause I have a bunch actually.
Was when my father called me one day to let me know that he had flipped their boat. Now I am in the Coast Guard at the time. The lake they were on is in upper Wisconsin it was in the fall...so it is getting F cold up there....but the muskies...the damned muskies were calling. So my dad and my mom went out.
"Good thing you guys had your life jackets on," says I, knowing that there is no way my proud parents of their upstanding and decorated son would ever do something as stupid as not wear their lifejackets.
Long pause on the phone from my dad.
"We weren't..."
"What? are you crazy? You took mom out on a boat in Wisconsin not wearing lifejackets?"
"They get in the way"
"Oh that's just great, can I quote you next time and use it on the headstone? "Hey lies Paul 3 Beans because lifejackets would get in the way."
Oh let me tell you, getting to parent your parent...priceless.
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. - C.S. Lewis
Life is usually all about how you handle Plan B. - Jack3Beans
Listen without defending; Speak without offending - FaithinAK
