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was hunting with B3 yesterday and he asked me if i remembered hitting him one night in a club, 30 yrs ago. i remember but not what it was over. he told he has paid 20,000 over the yrs on his teeth since then.

we are good friends now, but i never knew that i had knock out his front teeth.

Life. Good friends now is all that matters!

Marriage.

I spend half my time trying to not think of regrets.

If ya zoom out into the world as a kid with no plan and leaving everything behind,...regrets will consume your old age.

I thought when i was in my 20s if I didn't do drugs and didn't steal or lie and followed the rules that's all I needed to do. That naive view cost me a couple divorces, quitting college, money issues, job issues, etc. I needed to grow up faster than I did. Would do it all over again, basically changing everything.

But,....I didn't choose my game. I just lived it,...so there's that.

Buy him a decent scoped out rifle? Shotgun? Handgun? Something he has mentioned in the past that he has never been able to get.

true, but it truly made me feel bad

he's from the Berry family(own Berry industry's that build all the giant offshore oil platforms) don't think there is much he lacks for.

I guess I regret leavin' my Papaw more than anything. He was a simple man that was loved by everybody that knew him.

He broke down a little bit the day I left. I should have just built a little house on his place and stayed there,.....lived life like he did,....married that girl from down there who adored me.

But there was a big world out there and I had to go participate in it.

I didn't know that it sucked. Papaw did. But he didn't know how to tell me.

I'm trying to get back to it now.

Ain't much time left,....but I'm gonna live it out until it's done.

Fug this place.

He probably had it coming, buy him some toffee.



mike r

i have my dad living with me and will take care of him till the end. its trying sometimes.

More regrets than I could count. For us mortal folks, I guess it is like that. A fellow can't live life looking in the rear view mirror.

Sometimes Bristoe, I think I should have done what you said.. Stay at home.. Figured I would only begone 4 or 5 years, close to 45 years away.. Now I can't endure the climate there, and the many people.. Who knows... I do like where I am living.. Always said if I find some place I like better, I am gone..

Hard ass thread,......

Drags up chit from long ago.

I cain't remember things that happened 10 weeks ago,....but the stuff that occurred 40 years ago are fresh in my mind,...but they're there in the way that a 20 year old recalls them,......and that doesn't work out in the mind of a 61 year old.

I'd pretty much give up everything I've got to be able to get up every morning,..eat some biscuits and gravy,..and walk Massac Creek with a .22 rifle again.

I'll never understand how I gave that up so easily.

Punch violence in the face.

Regrets too.

I try to live right, and not look back...I've made my mistakes, I've done things I'm not proud of...it'll be between me and my maker some day.

That's the second saddest thing I read today.

That's normal, reliving your youth,,,realizing that the days are coming to end soon, mortality is a biitch. If it's on the bucket list, do it while you can, die happy I say.