[QUOTE=Krampus;3056207]I just did virtually, did I not?
That said, I did not say anything that was not true in doing so, did I?
It is not so much that I have lost my filter as I have grown older, as I never had much of a filter.
Rather, I say less, and when I speak, it tends to be a fully formed, fiber rich, and an all too complete, a crap.
Of course, in that crap, vulgarly positioned, are the same truths that better writers than you or I ever made poem to rhyme.
So, my crap may not be good prose, it may disturb, but if is cuts, it does honestly.
Much like a dog that farts.[/QUOTE]
I remember the time I was back in my step-Grandpa’s shop, back in Wichita Falls. He was a crusty old fucker from Hobbs, NM. Grew up on a ranch pre-ww2, wayyyy out of town, not that Hobbs was much of a town back then, or now, for that matter.
Tried to sign up for the military shortly after 12-7-41, but was not 18. He got caught. His friends, to a man, ended up on Corregidor…
Anyway, he was getting a lawn mower ready for me to use to cut the lawns on his various properties on the block. He twisted off the cap of the gas tank, looked inside, and said to me “Dryer than a dog fart”. Just like his sense of humor…
That has been forever a part of my lexicon. I’ve passed it on to my boys, with reference to Carl.
They never knew him, but they met his wife, Grandma J, more than once. She just passed last year.
She once confronted a burglar in the apartments they owned on the same block we lived on. Pulled her .38 on him, after she heard somebody inside on the intercom they had wired up (nobody was living in those apartment then). He went for her, and she took a couple of shots at him.
Shot one of her fingers off, as a matter of fact. They found a blood trail, so she hit him too, but they never found the culprit.
That makes 6, LOL…