The Old Folks Home

[chickadoodles]

All teenager's aund young adults think they are invincible. Until something happens to them or someone they know. It's so sad they have to learn the hard way.

 

[ronott1]

All teenager's aund young adults think they are invincible. Until something happens to them or someone they know. It's so sad they have to learn the hard way.

I got over that feeling of invincibility before high school. My Brother and I were thrown from a pickup onto the freeway. I do not know how fast we were going but We started the brakes locked up and spinning at about 70mph in the fast lane. I had lots of bruises and likely some cracked bones along with a concussion. My brother was un conscious with a bad bloody cut on his head. He went to the Hospital for a night and they sent me home with strangers. The concussion was so bad that I did not remember the way home! To the place I had lived since birth and we were only a couple of miles from it.

That was a big wake up call that you could go at any time for me

 

[chickadoodles]

I got over that feeling of invincibility before high school. My Brother and I were thrown from a pickup onto the freeway. I do not know how fast we were going but We started the brakes locked up and spinning at about 70mph in the fast lane. I had lots of bruises and likely some cracked bones along with a concussion. My brother was un conscious with a bad bloody cut on his head. He went to the Hospital for a night and they sent me home with strangers. The concussion was so bad that I did not remember the way home! To the place I had lived since birth and we were only a couple of miles from it.

That was a big wake up call that you could go at any time for me

Wow that's bad.

Sometimes it helps to get the bejesus scared out of us. A big wake up call for sure.

 

[bruceha2000]

Wow Ron, you and your brother were lucky to get out of that alive let alone mostly unscathed (though I'm sure it didn't feel that way at the time).

 

[NotAFarm]

Last week I mentioned I had finished a top for a baby quilt that I just absolutely couldn't stand.
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Well, I agree with the rest of the OFs, it is lovely and you should be proud to gift it. Any gift that someone takes the time to hand make should be a treasured gift. Giving our time to someone, whether in deed or in the creation of something, is the most valuable thing we could give. If the receiver does not feel the love or admire the value, that is their loss.

I hope everyone is feeling better soon!
@perchie.girl

 

[drumstick diva]

Thanks true but, no one ever thanked me for the many, many,many potholders I gave away . Started making them in childhood after my big sister showed me how. Gave up some decades later when I couldn't find decent loops to make them from. I kept my little looms one plastic (icky) and one metal to pass on as heirlooms to the younger relations .

 

[ronott1]

Wow Ron, you and your brother were lucky to get out of that alive let alone mostly unscathed (though I'm sure it didn't feel that way at the time).

I Know!

I was un conscious for an instant and realized I was on the shoulder of the freeway. We could have stopped in a lane with cars zipping along to hit us.

I was sore for a long time too

 

[getaclue]

My mother crocheted double sided pot holders. The stitch she used did both sides at the same time. She gave me 4 of them, years ago, and I still use them. They are the BEST. No matter how hot the pot, pan, or casserole dish, they absorb the heat, so you don't burn your hands. That's one of the few hand made things I'd have asked her to make more of for me.

 

[ronott1]

My mother crocheted double sided pot holders. The stitch she used did both sides at the same time. She gave me 4 of them, years ago, and I still use them. They are the BEST. No matter how hot the pot, pan, or casserole dish, they absorb the heat, so you don't burn your hands. That's one of the few hand made things I'd have asked her to make more of for me.

Did she put asbestos in the middle?

 

[getaclue]

Ron, a friend of mine actually quit drinking when he woke up one morning in the ditch, in the middle of the highway that divided the 4 lanes, and discovered he'd been hit by a car.