Joe Blog Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 1 hour ago, SuperBacon said: I love those discoveries. When my Grandad died, we discovered he had shares in Apple and Samsung. I was waiting for the big reveal that you are all millionaires now but instead we got a lively story about your grandad. This time next year Rashers we’ll be millionaires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted January 30 Paid Members Share Posted January 30 49 minutes ago, SuperBacon said: Pretty sure I've mentioned it before but my Dad was too, all over Europe for North American, and in the summer holidays I'd go along, illegally of course. I'd have to hide in the bunk when we went through customs either end. We'd go to Zeebrugge on the way out and then from Calais on the way in, and so when someone says "Have you been to France/Holland/Belgium/Germany/etc?" I answer "Yes, quite literally hundreds of times" but mostly the industrial parts 😆 Highlights included watching Eurogoals in Belgian truckstops, waking up in Cologne and there being thousands of rabbits outside the truck every time, listening to BBC Comedy tapes for hours and if my Dad got all his deliveries done quickly, we'd hit up a random theme park. I hazily remember one called Pukkel Park or something in Belgium, and it was hilarious as there would be all these cars in the car park and this massive artic in the middle. Genuinely some of the most fun times I've ever had, apart from the time 10yo me pooed myself in the bunk in the lorry on the ferry, and my Dad being my Dad jusg tried to get rid of the smell by chain smoking. Pure UKFF. I'm jealous Rashers, I never got to go with my grandad in his lorry. He delivered fuel, gas, and other dangerous chemicals. Even in the late 70s/early 80s security for those sort of deliveries was pretty tight and I'm sure that bringing an idiot boy who liked to hit stuff with a spanner would have been frowned upon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members waters44 Posted January 30 Paid Members Share Posted January 30 My Dad drove mixers (not as exciting as long distance unfortunately!) and I used to go with him a lot. He was based in Oxford when they were building the mini plant. I used to go with him but have to hide in the footwell at the site as no kids allowed. Look how close the concrete depot (red) and mini plant was (blue). I literally spent all day in the footwell shitting myself that I’d get caught Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted January 30 Paid Members Share Posted January 30 My old man was a long distance (UK only though) lorry driver too. I've also spent many an hour sat in footwells to get through various levels of security gates. Dad used to push it and try to make me laugh by giving his name as Meldrew when asked. In the 90s, that was as funny as it got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members waters44 Posted January 30 Paid Members Share Posted January 30 Seeing your Dad roll a golden virginia whilst drinking a tea, using the CB and driving an 8 wheeler was a site to behold as a kid. That was my Captain America Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 I once saw my old man pick up and carry a full size fridge freezer with one arm. Bacon Sr > Superman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted January 30 Paid Members Share Posted January 30 4 hours ago, SuperBacon said: I love those discoveries. When my Grandad died, we discovered he had shares in Apple and Samsung. ... I got to clear his house in Isleworth with my Dad and it was just mental and full of wonderful junk. I never wanted for anything but I insisted that I keep the deactivated guns that sat on his wall and fascinated me as a child, and some Star Wars Micro Machines (again I don't think he knew what Star Wars was!) but my favourite thing is he had hundreds, if not thousands, of random metal car plates, like the ones you see hung on walls, and some which were very rare. At the time I had a Citroën and took it to a specialist in Weybridge and mentioned all the Citroën ones we had, and we gifted them to the garage so they sit pride of place on their wall, which makes me really happy that they went to someone that appreciated them as much as my Grandad did. I reckon this is a story that @CXwrestling would love! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted January 30 Paid Members Share Posted January 30 Away from grandad reminiscing I've just heard my mum on the phone to my sister. They were discussing how my sisters work had gone today. I only caught the following phrase from my sister: "Yeah work went alright, except for that Tracey. She may have had a double mastectomy but she is still a massive tit" Tact not high on my sisters list of qualities if I'm honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 30 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 30 1 hour ago, SuperBacon said: I once saw my old man pick up and carry a full size fridge freezer with one arm. Bacon Sr > Superman. I might have told this story before on here so apologies in advance. When I was about 14, I was in the loft with my dad helping him tidy it because we were turning it into an extra bedroom. So I was busily sweeping away and my dad was, from what I remember, stood practically halfway across the room from me. Anyway, there was a flat piece of cardboard lying half across the floor and half across the space where the stairs were going to be built to it (we were using a ladder to get up there) and I idly walked on to it and then suddenly I was hanging in the air wondering where the floor had gone and why I wasn't now dead or nursing two broken legs. It was because my dad had caught me with one hand. He then just pulled me up back through the space, sat me on the floor - and then just went back to attaching a plasterboard. I just sat there confused for 5 minutes. He didn't ask if I was alright and I didn't say thanks and that's why I'm in therapy. Even so, no idea to this day how he did that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members waters44 Posted January 30 Paid Members Share Posted January 30 Dads are awesome! There is a treasure trove of stories about my mad Mum which I’ll save for another time. A little taster - she’s banned from our local Boots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Three quarters of my grandparents were dead before I was born. My mum was really happy that she had tracked down some photos of her parents and framed them and hung them on the wall above the fireplace. She was showing them to my ex very proudly and my ex noticed his military uniform. “You never mentioned your grandfather was in the army” she said to me. I sheepishly mumbled something as my mum said “Well, it’s an Irish one”. My ex said “Oh right, were they based in Ireland or……..(penny drops)…oh right.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Blog Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 1 hour ago, waters44 said: Dads are awesome! My dad left when I was 6, refused to pay any child support, used to try to get my mums benefits cut on the regular and even committed fraud to steal money off of my siblings and me. Dad‘s are shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted January 30 Paid Members Share Posted January 30 If I wrote here even a tenth of all the shit things my dad did in his life you'd think I was making them up. He died in 1999 yet I still feel the repercussions of the things he did on a regular basis. I have a lot of half brothers/sisters, in fact if your mum went into a pub or club at any point between 1960 and 1999 we could be related. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members waters44 Posted January 30 Paid Members Share Posted January 30 Great point - awesome dads are awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westlondonmist Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 4 hours ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: Away from grandad reminiscing I've just heard my mum on the phone to my sister. They were discussing how my sisters work had gone today. I only caught the following phrase from my sister: "Yeah work went alright, except for that Tracey. She may have had a double mastectomy but she is still a massive tit" Tact not high on my sisters list of qualities if I'm honest. I think I'm going to hell based on the amount I laughed at a dig at a woman with a mastectomy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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