I demand a world where the cute furry animals can leave in peace and eat chocolate all day

I demand this, that, and the other thing too....NOW! >

I demand people don't doe without first calling

die

Sup IP+ not feeling fine today?

I bet Rey619MysterioSD didn't think this thread would get like this

I demand a job that I don't have to do anything but play and make alot of money $$$

I demand nothing, but I do ask for alot.

father died yesterday, he was found dead in his bed, they think it happened while he
was sleeping. he didn't show up at work (he owned a taxi business which covered north
eastern maine area of maine) and didn't call in so one of the drivers went out to his
house on the lake and found him. he never got to meet his grand daughter which bothers
me more than anything, odd, but it does. he was more a friend than a father, him and my
mom split up when he got back from his second tour in vietnam and i was never around him
much. i've some memmories of when we were kids, but almost all memories are from being
older and hunting or fishing, or as an adult and going out drinking with some of his vet
friends that all got together on weekends for poker and stuff.

my brother, an uncle and aunt are already running around trying to get into the legal
stuff so they don't get screwed out of his estate. i just want me dad, the one I never got
to have and it seems everyone else wants to go through his stuff so they can take what they
want...

anyway... screw it, don't mean nothin

people are vultures

it always seemed to me that he was chasing what he lost, based on the
fact that he had four marriages and the three other than to my
mom, were all to a woman who had two boys the same ages as my brother
and me when he and my mom split up and he left the city and moved back
to the woods. i mean woods too, he lived in the sticks behind the sticks
up there and didn't even have power, running water until he installed
a generator, though he had built a new house on thee lake and didn't
have a phone until he got a cell phone. weird for someone who could have
moved anywhere he wanted and not really worried about working or anything,
i guess, but all he wanted was to live away from people. he never called
or anything and only visited here once, but when ever i was up there
around him it was like his world lit up and he would drag me around to
see people he hadn't seen in months just so he could show me off and when
i took his grandson up there it was like he was a king or something with
how proud he was

i'm going to go away for a while, everyone be safe, warm, smile it helps

IP+, I feel your pain brother, my own father is doing a slow fade and he hasn't got much longer. I dread the call that I know is going to come any day now. He's on oxygen and can't do much except sleep a lot. My parents live in Virginia about 7 hours away from me so it's hard for me to get there much. The last time I saw him (at Christmas) he was looking really bad. He looked like he had aged another ten years since the last time I saw him (at Thanksgiving). You'll get through this IP, hang in there pal...

Soon, I will walk in your shoes IPlural, I have gained from your loss and wisdom.

Really sorry to hear this IP+, The world really sucks huh?
Hang in there, time heals all wounds, atleast thats what they are saying.



Let us know when you are back.

Hum, I envy you, IP, as strange as it may sound.
It's sad to say, but I couldn't care less if my dad died.

He's just a poor leach. He's the type of person who only calls you when he needs something.
Every time he calls, I cross my fingers, thinking that maybe this time he calls just to say hi, to hear from me, to get some news about his grand sons, but all the time, at the end on the conversation, there is this dreaded sentence "Oh, by the way, about my web site" or something like that.
Anyway, last time I talked to him, I told him that I didn't want to hear about his web site ever again, and that if he only had favours or things to ask from me, to not bother calling me.
He didn't come to my wedding, he didn't come to any of my 2 sons christianing, he met my 3 year old only once and never even saw my 18 months old.
Anyway, I never heard from him since that last phone call, which was about 6 months ago.

I wish I had a dad that cared, I wish I had a dad I could care about if he died. In that sense, you're lucky IP. I envy you for that.

Take care of yourself my friend.

Ah, parents....you cannot exist without them, but often you wish you could...

Thank you, I'll mske sure everything is ok.

paxx, I know exactly what you mean, the mother and stepfather constantly need computer help and such. It is bother some and also in very bad taste for them to expect anything out of John. Yet they do and he complies because Diane asks it of him, the same thing goes with allowing Justin when he was a child and now Shelby to be around them. Diane has some issues of her own and refuses to allow them to be cut out of the families life.

Jafo, there are two I can think of that I would be more than willing to send down to you on extended loan if you have need?

i would demand, but i forgot what the old lady told me to ask for.

I am Sorry to hear about your Father IP, May He Rest In Peace.

Paxx...I know what you are talking about...My Father is the same way

paxx - my dad was much like yours, but being very successful and competent, he had no reason to call ever. as big a pain as it is to be used when convenient, i'm wondering if that's not better than not being needed at all.

I could ONLY endure my father AFTER I left the 'roost'...and only then in moderation.
The stress of being an ATC [Flight Service Officer 3], combined with shift work that saw him manage 3 Christmases at home in 30 years is not conducive to a happy existence...

It is odd how it works though if you look at it. I mean parents who are not parents and the children
growing up to be parents and if not 100% of the time, they do their best to focus as much as possible
at learning how to be the best parent they can be.

What I do find rather shocking is how many parents by lable only while a child is growing up decide
at some magical point in time later in life to attempt being a real parent. Then only to act as if
nothing was ever wrong with the past or as if the now adult child is supposed to just act as if it
was a TV existance at home growing up. I almost pity the mother and stepfather, her because she looks
for something that is not there and him because he has grown old and lonely. His own children will
have nothing to do with him unless they want something.

Well they made their choices in the past and will have to deal with the price in the present and
future.

Hey IP I know what losing a father is like. I lost mine at 7 years old for a car accident. I feel your pain man. Hang in there.