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[Wannabe...]

Man, I now this is an off topic forum, but shooooo-weeee!!! This is way out there.

Opie - I for one take you at your word. Got to admire a man that does what he has to to survive. Yes, you broke the law - both civil and societal, but many a man would turn to stealing or serious crime as an easier way out. Plus, somehow you managed to stay in school and still find time for a little sumpin' sumpin' on the side with the future Mrs. Opie. Now that's getting it done dude.

Wannabe...

[Cane Pole]

After reading all this stuff, I guess I need to find another source for homemade catgut string. Wife likes it on her tennis racket even though it smells somewhat.......

I am guilty of catgut stringing........

[SpeckWick]

Opie if I offended you with my post, my appologies, for real. I wasn't attacking you for anything you said and didn't really think you were leaning one way or the other politically. Just something you mentioned about the jobs thing struck a cord. In the past the election thing hasn't gotten to me as this one has, and I replied without thinking of how it would come across. You went through Hell, man. And you came out on top. That's more than a lot of guys in that situation would have done. Many turn to drugs or worse. You didn't. I appologize again for sounding like a jerk.

[Opie1]

No apology needed SpeckWick. You had a "struck the cod" moment just like I did originally.

I don't know if the story is true or not but it was a good story and as things turned out it doesn't look like your fathers attitude hurt you. I didn't detect bitterness towards your father in your story just that this was the way it was.

Your fathers attitude allowed or forced you to rise to the challenge and it seemed to be a very good character building experience for you something the youngsters of today are missing out on as evidenced by the attitude of intitlement so prevelent today.

My dad wasn't a bad man. In fact he was quite the opposite. I wondered for years why or how he could do something like that. People of that generation (at least in my family) tended to stick their head in the sand rather than deal directly with a problem.
I learned more about my dad in the week after he died in 2004 than I knew about him while he was alive. I think I know what his thinking was at the time. Don't agree with it but I understand. I think the experience made me a better person. I have more sympathy for people than blame them for situations that I used to think was their own fault.
One thing for sure-most people don't realize how good they have it because they never experienced how bad it could be.