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healeyboz

healeyboz

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So I went into the bmv today to get the car titled and plated. The lady at the desk new what a BE was! Pretty cool. She was telling me how much she loved them. The title was from Jan. 15 1977. Transferred from my parents to me today. Kind of a neat day for the fam. Now we just need to get some of the other cars fixed up and in my name! :smile:

Heck, she doesn't have brakes or clutch bled yet, but at least she's legal for when she does!
 
Not long now.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Heck, she doesn't have brakes or clutch bled yet, but at least she's legal for when she does![/QUOTE]

Uh-oh! Somebody take that man's keys away and give him a brake bleeder! Temptation can make you do stupid things!
 
No worries Morris. Been there and done that when I was a kid. Got a mini running for the first time a took a few friends out in the back yard for a spin. No brakes. Came back to the front and told them to stop with our feet, yeah right!! We weren't going very fast at all, about 5 mph or less. Enough to drag out feet and stop the car. Yeah well, my feet weren't enough. Had to fix a hood!
 
Yeah, it's funny now. It wasn't funny when Dad was explaining how he raced that car for years and never put a dent in it and I had it for a week and wrecked the hood. We still don't talk about that car because I flipped it racing on a country road a year later.

Getting older makes you realize just how much you owe your parents for not killing you... hmmmmm.
 
Actually makes me realize how silly it is to get upset with my kids (3years and 9 mos.) for wrecking my office or scribbling on the walls.
 
Yes.
Walls can be painted.

Heck, cover it with a picture. When you get older you may just want to take the picture down & leave the scribbles out in view.

My parents were a trainwreck, but I survived and am here nearly 50 years later.

I've got a lot of kids by todays standards, the ones who are getting older have taught me to treasure the (formerly irritating) things the younger ones sometimes do.

Sometimes I tell them that by simply surviving past their teen years they will prove that we were good parents.
I know it takes a lot more than that, but it is an accomplishment. They know they have to make a good life for themselves, we can't give that to them but we can prepare them & give them tools.

Raising kids isn't for wimps. :wink:
 
Neither is growing old for wimps.
 
I feel like I am doing both at the same time.

And truth be told... I love my kids' wall scribbles. Now the mess in my office... that's another story.

My parents were pretty rough at times... but I now have a lot more appreciation and understanding for how easy it is to "make mistakes" when parenting. You can lose focus real fast when an object you treasure is destroyed. But stuff is just stuff after all.
 
Treasure every moment you can with your children. We have a 17 year old son and a 15 year old daughter. The loves of my life. When they are both gone my wife and I look at each and ask "I wonder how the kids are doing?"
 
And when they leave the nest...well, one needs a LBC to try and help fill the void!! :cryin:
 
bugimike said:
And when they leave the nest...well, one needs a LBC to try and help fill the void!! :cryin:
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"A"?? How can one just have 1 LBC?
 
tony barnhill said:
How can one just have 1 LBC?
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It's a struggle, but some of us manage it, Tony.
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