Dad Quotes

Some sayings from Dad’s stay September 21-25, 2019:

When helping him unload his luggage:  “The large one has my money.”

“I might put on a new shirt tomorrow.”

He said that his “eyes run and nose waters”.

“There goes the school bus!  We missed it so we won’t go to school today – we’ll just be a bunch of dumb-bells.”

“I’m going to sit here [at the kitchen table].  I don’t want to miss the first call [anticipating breakfast].”

“We eat well – I just don’t want to work it off.”

“I pay $4.50 for a meal at the senior center until I am short of money, then I don’t have to pay.  My checking has dipped below $100,000 so I’m getting a little short and will start accepting free meals.”

“Breakfast in WA cost $23 so I asked who else I was paying for.”

“We were building fence in the 30’s until we ran out of post holes.  They had to ship them in from MT.”

We stopped for lunch on Monday at Taco Bell and as we came to the door Dad announced that he would buy.  I said, “Sure, you didn’t offer earlier or I would have stopped at Village Inn or a BBQ place.”  Inside he noted that the #1 had three tacos and he only wanted two, so asked if I wanted one.  He ended up buying only two meals for three of us – we each got two tacos.  Talk about making it work in one’s favor!

He noted a man in the Wendy’s in Butte had bright shoes.  The man responded, noting that Dad had grey sneakers with yellow soles and yellow shoe laces.  Dad suggested that old people can wear shoes that bright.

“I’d rather have a garter snake than a rat.”  He has a garter snake in his yard that he is trying to catch.  He hopes to “cut his tail off – right behind his ears!”  “He is fast – when I’m chasing him he kicks it into overdrive.”  “I want to catch that snake so I can put it in the neighbor’s yard.”

Talking about life on the farm when a child:  “The girls came down from their bedroom screaming that there was a snake in their upstairs closet – a big one!  It likely kept the house clear of mice.  Pop got the snake.  Pop was afraid of nothing. “

“Snakes are very pretty and unique but they are still a snake!  They make you jump straight in the air three feet but once seen, they are OK.”

“Brother John got bit by a bull snake in Hamburg.  He was laid up a week with a swollen leg.”

“The guy handling snakes at Reptile Gardens said they had an anti-venom serum for sale and if it doesn’t work, bring it back.”

His brother Marcell told Dad – “You’re not very tall.”  Dad replied, “When you had to work as hard as I did as a child your growth is stunted.”