As was foretold, we've added advertisements to the forums! If you have questions, or if you encounter any bugs, please visit this thread: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/240191/forum-advertisement-faq-and-reports-thread/
Options
I met a God Damned American Hero today
Einhander
__BANNED USERS regular
__BANNED USERS regular
My car is toast, so I was riding the bus around today and when I was waiting at a stop for it to come, and this lady strikes up a conversation with me.
She's 73 years old.
She's in a powerchair.
Her name is Etta.
She told me all about DanActive yogurt and how it calms her stomach and how she's been having stomach problems ever since she was nine when she got Polio.
Polio.
Seriously, nobody has had Polio since the Stone Age.
Then we talked about how people are shitty drivers and how she's worried about Social Security and then when we got on the bus she started hitting on the bus driver.
SE let's talk about old people.
She's 73 years old.
She's in a powerchair.
Her name is Etta.
She told me all about DanActive yogurt and how it calms her stomach and how she's been having stomach problems ever since she was nine when she got Polio.
Polio.
Seriously, nobody has had Polio since the Stone Age.
Then we talked about how people are shitty drivers and how she's worried about Social Security and then when we got on the bus she started hitting on the bus driver.
SE let's talk about old people.
Einhander on
0
Posts
That's the only funny story I have from there, the rest are sad/gross
this thread is shit
I know he's not American
I used too
but she died yesterday
my father saw fit to not tell me until we had lunch today
nursing homes are horrible places and i fear getting old and having to spend my life in them.. or get alzheimers. getting old sucks.
My teacher gave me an A anyway.
Steam / Bus Blog / Goozex Referral
But I take considerable notion with you calling someone an American hero just because they are aged.
My guess would be yes
Doing nice things for old people makes my day.
Sometimes I'll see old people walking to their car and I want to be all like "Give me the keys, I'll pull her up front for ya".
I learned quickly that they weren't born yesterday.
GoFund The Portland Trans Pride March, or Show It To People, or Else!
awesome radiation
fallout is a bitch
Go adopt new ones, there are plenty out there. I've got too many that have adopted me, makes visiting a chore.
She told me she lied about her age so she could get a work permit when she was fourteen, and worked all her life until she had to stop after her back gave out.
Also, I forgot to mention, she has a Morphine Administration Device in her spine.
She's practically RoboCop.
Steam / Bus Blog / Goozex Referral
Old people are so bad ass.
WOOP DEE HERE I GO WITH A BOW AND ARROW
IT'S OKAY JENKINS THE GERMANS CAN'T SEE ME I'M A CHURCHILL
as jack churchill marched off to another hotspot on the battlefield, the germans used mustard gas at the area where arrows were coming from, and jenkins along with 30 of his comrades died with their eyelids fused shut
My mom has recently had to go through a big ordeal to get my grandparents into a retirement community. They are both alzheimer's like whoa, and were a danger to themselves living alone.
She has been nearly having a breakdown about the decision for weeks now.
GoFund The Portland Trans Pride March, or Show It To People, or Else!
To help seamlessly tie into the OP, he had polio as a kid and the doctors told him he'd never walk again. He said bah to that. Walked just fine.
Steam - Talon Valdez :Blizz - Talonious#1860 : Xbox Live & LoL - Talonious Monk @TaloniousMonk Hail Satan
It's pretty much the worst place you could ever be.
Steam / Bus Blog / Goozex Referral
My grandparents so racist, then my mom married black dude, they all chills as hell now.
My grandmother was so afraid of Omama winning, I can't even repeat most of the things she said. Though in her defence once you hit your 90s you pretty much can say whatever you want and who is going to stop you?
The awesome ones are great because they always have a sense of humor about being old as hell and always want to chat with you about great hunting spots, gas prices, family history and shit. I always feel bad though because I eventually have to be all "gotta get back to work" cause if I don't they'll never stop talking and the boss will chew me out later.
The bad ones, however, are irritable, bitchy, have no patience, and are blatantly racist. Like, in front of your minority co-workers. I had this one lady last week who thought she was Miss Emily or something. All "why do I have to pay for this?" and "I want to talk your manager about why you don't carry what you did last time I was here (19fucking80something)"
I guess preventing a life threating disease wasn't on the top of her list.
She's also really REALLY racist against the Japanese, whole World War II thing.
My other grandfather escaped from a train heading to Auschwitz, and attacked and killed a Nazi officer that tried to rape two of his cousins. He then took his uniform and helped his cousins evade the Nazi patrols in the area, before escaping himself.
They're both dead now.
Also,
I.H.N.I.W.T.R. you had badass grandpas.
Steam / Bus Blog / Goozex Referral
Indiana Who? This guy was navigator in numerous Lancaster bombers during WWII, he's got stories of being separated from their group, having to drop below the clouds to regain their bearings and still finding and hitting their targets. Turns out they were dropping their bombs UNDER THE CLOUDS AND UNDER THE REST OF THEIR FLIGHT... think about that for a second.
This is the moment the war ended for him.
Morgenstern your grandpa is fucking badass. All the other guys look traumatized but he's all "fuck I have a fucking cigarette, I'm cool"
His name was Hans and he had tenure.
He smoked about 15 cigs a day until the age of 89. He was a machine.