Generation X

[johnr]

I’ll tell you the main reason both work, and it will piss many off. It’s easier to have someone else raise your kids than do it yourself. That should get some conversation going.

I have been blessed in my career path, that when the kids were young, I could work from home, and adjust my hours.
But they of course spent time in daycare, as parts of working life was not kid friendly. Maybe 18 hours a week or so for the most part was their time in care of others.

But agree, I am not a kid fella, even my own 4....haha

 

[guywhofishes]

I grew up a poor multiracial child in Mississippi in the 60s. Our mother tied pork chop bones to our belts so dogs would play with us. It wasn’t the greatest, but we didn’t die, so there’s that.

 

[guywhofishes]

That's me - middle/top. Simpler times back then.

 

[Sluggo]

Is Lycan your step sister?

 

[johnr]

I'll take partial responsibility for it, because I let her go to the wrong college for the wrong thing, the rest goes to the college. My oldest daughter was a sweetheart. We hunted and fished, she had a job in high school, good student, a great hard working kid. Off she goes to college in MN for education, then counseling and social work. Now she is a turd. I cannot stand to be in the same room very long. Noticed it happening and cut it off at the pass with the younger daughter. She was and is still a great kid at 30.

My sister raised a liberal socialist idiot. He is still in the process of finishing he PHD in some type of Engineering, and boy can I not be around the arrogant little bastard. He is the smartest guy in the room education wise, and of course that makes the rest of us dumb country bumpkins.

 

[guywhofishes]

My sister raised a liberal socialist idiot. He is still in the process of finishing he PHD in some type of Engineering, and boy can I not be around the arrogant little bastard. He is the smartest guy in the room education wise, and of course that makes the rest of us dumb country bumpkins.

Boy oh boy would I enjoy pulling that drip’s chain.

 

[lunkerslayer]

That's me - middle/top. Simpler times back then.

Fake i call fake because we have all seen guywiththeknappy and over the calf tube socks and my personal favorite standing next to the living arrangements that many have adorned growing up in.

 

[Rowdie]

 

[Tinesdown]

This fall I was talking to a group of 19 to 20 year olds out goosehunting, We were talking about technololgy and how nice onyx is. The one kid was laughing about his boss having a plat book with fields and spots marked where he'd had success, I was thinking it wasn't that long ago I used plat maps all the time. lol made me feel old.

I always thought your tag was from bowman county nd but its prolly u are a bowman but it relived my hunting days down south of rhame nd not dising anyone but we my father and i saw some great bucks in bowman county before the posting to a tee but we had some private to hunt also an i remember those cold nights sleeping in the pickup. Always killed good whitetails but never got the giaints that run as soon as u drivebdown the county road. That will be my memories with my father he is to old to walk alot for deer. I once wounded a big whitey south of marmarth nd killed the buck on the ice of the little river. Palmated as all get out but i was young as hell got the first bullet in him and he was spraying blood wounded i was young an shaky we ran him down cold as shit 13 degree weather right at sunset couldnt hit shit my old man grabbed the gun an put that deer down. We might of lost the buck if not for my father. An actuaully i fell through the little missouri retrieving the buck my insulated pants froze into a z shape on me before i got back to the rig.

 

[Rowdie]

 

[lunkerslayer]

Well yeah

 

[Obi-Wan]

I grew up a poor multiracial child in Mississippi in the 60s. Our mother tied pork chop bones to our belts so dogs would play with us. It wasn’t the greatest, but we didn’t die, so there’s that.

Has your name made the phone book yet ? Be careful when it does as oil cans can start randomly exploding around you.

 

[Eatsleeptrap]

Last generation to OD on candy bars sitting in a running car outside the local bar, or outside every bar between Bismarck and Steele in 1974.

 

[lunkerslayer]

 

[Davey Crockett]

Last generation to OD on candy bars sitting in a running car outside the local bar, or outside every bar between Bismarck and Steele in 1974.

You were lucky you had candy bars. My ol Man has been dead for 25 years and I still have a hard time with forgiveness of all those wasted hours. Every time he said "just for a few minutes" then it turned into a few hours. I made a point of never ever doing that to my wife and kids. When alcohol takes over a person's life the family suffers . It's the Drug that never gets talked about much.

 

[Retired-Guy]

You were lucky you had candy bars. My ol Man has been dead for 25 years and I still have a hard time with forgiveness of all those wasted hours. Every time he said "just for a few minutes" then it turned into a few hours. I made a point of never ever doing that to my wife and kids. When alcohol takes over a person's life the family suffers . It's the Drug that never gets talked about much.

I had a good friend whose father did that. I learned really soon that I didn't want to make a quick trip to town with them.

 

[johnr]

You were lucky you had candy bars. My ol Man has been dead for 25 years and I still have a hard time with forgiveness of all those wasted hours. Every time he said "just for a few minutes" then it turned into a few hours. I made a point of never ever doing that to my wife and kids. When alcohol takes over a person's life the family suffers . It's the Drug that never gets talked about much.

Buddy of mine dad would drop him off 2 miles on the other side of the draw and have him hunt the draw back to the pickup. Every time he did this, the few hours it took to walk that draw back to the pickup, dad was passed out drunk and he would have to drive them home.

This is 40 years ago, and he still talks about it. Booze is the enemy of the family. Pretty easy for most to stay sober for the days when kids need you, unless it isn't.

 

[guywhofishes]

My dad was a drunken bum of a dad/husband. So was his dad.

Then my dad found Jesus... and turned his life around but proceeded to choose Jesus over his three boys after that.

It's probably a good thing I don't have any sons - at least the curse ends here.

 

[Fritz the Cat]

Every Saturday we went to town to sell eggs, cream and cleaned ducks, chickens or whatever. Load up on groceries and essentials. Then the men folk would go to the bar.

My dad was one of the better ones harping on brothers and uncles it is time to go home fellas.

I could hardly wait to become 21 and indulge. My wife is still with me. Not sure why, but if I've had a little too much, she becomes the devil.

 

[riverview]

my parents drank but never saw them drunk, I saw kids sitting in cars in front of the bar on saturday afternoon back then thought it was kinda normal.