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Post by oldcajun123 on Apr 6, 2016 6:55:58 GMT -5
My 19 yr old Grandson is going to College 8 miles from my Farm at USL, Raging Cajuns Lafayette LA. His Father just got permanently transferred from Exxons Chemical plant in Baton Rouge to Baytown Texas. Back to the Grandson, this generation does not like to drive, his father bought him a 20004 Maxima , Mother calls me and says his cars battery is down, can you go jump him off. Wife and I pick him up, go to parking garage, to enter you have to swipe your ID card. We get ther and a car is on either side, we cannot push it out because of Safety interlock. I say Boger Red didn't your Mom jump you off yesterday? Yes he said, Did it start I said, yes he says, I say why didn't you back it out, then back in the space so if you had to jump it off ,you could. Blank stare, his Mom would have given me the same look. By this time Wife knows I'm getting pissed, she says well since we can't jump it off why don't you go and see his Dorm room. She's trying to calm me down. I tell Booger Red, I'll go buy you a new battery and swap it out, your penance is every Monday at 5 pm you will come to the farm and pick up B , he calls his Grandmaw B , and you will take her to Bingo. That will keep the battery charged. We get to Dorm, and I have to park in a No Parking Spot, wife says I'll stay in truck if I have to move it, Go see his room, we walk to Dorm, I ask Booger Red, you got any naked girls in your room, he looks horrified and says NO PAW PAW,why you asking, I say if you did I would have to go tell B we would be a lot longer. Kid looks at me with blank stare, he don't know how to kid. SHEESH. We get up to his room, new, shiny, I tell the kid when I was your age my room was a jungle in S ASIA, he says Dad told me PawPaw. I leave with mixed feelings about this new Generation, Yesterday he turned in an English piece, got an A+, with Teacher writing praises on back of his 10 page story. I believe somewhat he got that from me, been telling him stories all his life, Cajuns are like Indians we pass our Stories to the New Generation. I know he's a good Kid, but we've given him such a F<>CKED UP World. This is the Life of a Paw Paw.
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Post by papipeguy on Apr 6, 2016 7:23:55 GMT -5
It never ends, Brad. We finally got home Saturday from Florida and my 30 year-old daughter told me that her car, which is sitting in her mother's spot in the garage, won't start. I asked when she used it last and she said January. So the thing sat unused for 3 months while she drove Mom's car.
I put the trickle charger on it and looked at the oil level. Down 2 quarts. Looked at the antifreeze. Nearly empty.
Finally had to go buy a battery, dead cell. Got the car started. Called the garage to arrange an oil change and told them to look at what else it needs. $850.00 later she has new oil, new brakes and rotors and brake lines.
Total with battery came to $1,000.00 for which she did pay me.
I really needed this nonsense after driving 1,200 miles but that's what Dads do I guess.
Now she's looking for her own place. I told her my moving days are over. Sheesh!
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Post by puffadder on Apr 6, 2016 9:12:07 GMT -5
You can't win Brad. Just suck it up and hope their common sense will kick in somewhere along the line. And to confirm the wretched life we elders endure, Stepdaughter flipped her SUV and totaled it. Calls crying "what do I do now?". She has a pickup sitting in her driveway totally roadworthy (although it's a rustbucket) so I drove over, checked the fluids and started it up. She cries "But the inspection has run out and I don't know how to get that done". I take it around the corner and get a new sticker, deliver it back and tell her it's done, ready to go. "I don't know if I want to be seen driving this thing" she says.  |
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Post by stvalentine on Apr 6, 2016 13:46:38 GMT -5
I am happy to do a lot of things for our two boys but ungratefulness is the line where it would stop! Thank god both of them are very modest when it comes to worldly goods. The elder is still driving my old Seat and it´s falling apart now. The younger doesn´t even have a drivers license like so many kids these days. He lives in the city of Hamburg so no need for it either. Unfortunately my van needed to go to the workshop again and a friends of us lended me his vintage Mercedes Coupé. It is already slightly dilapidated but I love every kilometer in it!  |
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Post by puffy on Apr 6, 2016 13:53:05 GMT -5
My son keeps his car in good running order.The inside though looks like the city dump.Him or his wife never clean it.The last time I rode in it I had to clean out the seat before I could sit down.When I told him that he needed to clean his nasty car he said..(I don't care about that)..I don't know where he got that attitude but it certainly wasn't from his parents.
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Post by papipeguy on Apr 6, 2016 16:38:48 GMT -5
You're right,  . I looked in the glove box of my daughter's car for the registration and insurance card and all I found was a plastic bag full of McDonald's wrappers. The important papers were shoved into the center console. It's unbelievable. I've seen neater hobo shacks than that car. |
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Post by Baboo on Apr 6, 2016 16:47:11 GMT -5
My son & daughter never asked me for anything, and i gave them only what they needed (probably much less)... what's wrong with them!!!  |
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Post by sparks on Apr 6, 2016 19:08:19 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing, Brad. It's a shame what the current generation has become. I guess maybe I escaped it somehow, because I just couldn't imagine expecting the things that others my age seem to expect from the world.
My brother on the other hand... I got a text message from him at 11:30 PM the other night asking if I would give him airline miles so he could go to Texas the next day and see a concert. He posted the same thing on Facebook. No shame. I would be embarrassed.
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Post by crapgame on Apr 7, 2016 13:05:17 GMT -5
Shame is something that has the way of the dinosaur..in this day and age of social media the is no shame..everything is online for the world to see..sad
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