Funny Story About My Pop.......

[ehenry]

Alot of the long time members here have seen threads I've posted about my elderly folks and the prayer requests for them for the various things we've been through with them in the last year. It was this time last year Pop pulled out in front of a loaded log truck, got hit and broke 3 vertebra in his back. Now its time for something funny about Pop.

We've had 24 hour care takers with Pop since Mamma passed away last November. Wednesday one of the sitters called fairly frantinc that Pop was in the attic and he wouldnt come out. Now understand, getting in Pop's attic is just like walking through a door and the whole attic if floored for the most part. ANYWAY.....I go over there and sure enough theres Pop stalking around in the attic with a tennis racket. About the time I walk through the door he swings like he's serving the ball........at a bat. The little bat was flying around and Pop was dead set on its demise. I told him he needed something longer like a broom or boat paddle. He says "Go get me a damn broom."

Being the dutiful son, I fetch him a broom and settle back to watch the show.......The little bat comes flying back by and Pop nails it like he's hitting one for the outfield fence.

Not bad for a 94 year old! I sure hope I go out swingin like him.....

 

[aspeck]

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LOL! Glad Pop can still swing a mean broom!

 

[southkogs]

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Pop = 1 / Bat = 0 ... Game. Set. Match!

Way to go Pop!

 

[Limited-Time]

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thats great!!!!!

 

[Maclin]

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That's great! My Dad is only 84 but that sounds just like him, thanks for sharing the "rest of the story"

 

[ehenry]

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A couple weeks ago Pop found an axe in his workshop (the sisters only thought they got all the implements of destruction) and found a stump in the neighbors front yard that he thought needed chopping on. The sitter called me and told on him, said he had an axe and was chopping on the neighbors stump. I head over and sure enough theres Pop at work with his axe, round point shovel, sharp shooter spade and wheel barrow. His intent is to REMOVE the stump from the neighbors front yard. I ask him what he's doing and he tells me "What the hell it look like???? I'm diggin this stump up!!!" I tell him its not his yard, not his stump....so on and so on. Didnt matter....he never checked up. He kept on digging and chopping. Fortunately, there was no one living in the house at that time and the stump wasn't a big one. After a couple hours he got tired, gathered his tools and went home saying he'd finish the next day that the stump wasn't going to run off.

After he was gone an hour or two I tied the truck to the stump, snatched it up and hauled it off.

The next day he was back filling the hole up smoothing everything out. He never asked what happened to the stump.

 

[Limited-Time]

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Seems you Dad is living proof that a man needs to be productive and have a purpose to keep going. Great for him!!!!