Helen - Get Me A Beer

[JoePa]

My father-in-law was an old time coal miner - he actually started working in the mines when he was a kid - working as a breaker boy - picking the slate out of the coal as it passed on a conveyor belt - he's been gone a long time now but he was one of a kind - I always got a kick out of the way he acted around his house - he was the king - no bones about it - my mother-in-law tended to him like a baby - when he wanted to take a bath she would fill the tube up for him and lay out the towels - then when he was done he would leave the bathroom and she would empty the tube and clean up - whenever I visited he would always tell his wife Helen to get me a beer - she would always ask him what he wanted to eat and go overboard to give him what he wanted -

After the mines closed down he got a job in NJ near where I was living at the time - one time I was heading home to Pa so I waited after work to give him a ride home - after waiting a couple hours he finally shows up - half under the weather - well anyway we ride home to Pa - half way there he wants to stop in a gin mill - he calls his wife up -its around midnight - he tells her he wants some pork chops when he gets home - we get to his house around 2am and sure enough there are pork chops waiting for us

Now you might say that the old boy was terrible - but you know something - that's how things were in those days - that was pretty much average in the coal fields - the guys worked very hard and drank very dark and were very strict with their families - the men were the kings in the house - the poor wife had to settle on being the queen -

The old boy drank like a fish and was a heavy smoker - but you know something - he lived to be 84 - I often wonder where he is now -

[flowerjohn]

Isn't he dead?

[Jow]

Isn't he dead?

Ha I spit some beer out on that one haha

my grandfather did similar things,gramma use to have his supper ready on a TV tray in front of the tube at 6 pm. She made him a hot meal with a personal sized apple pie almost every night. It's just the way things were

[flowerjohn]

My old man used to stand at the top of the stairs every single morning and holler at my mom for socks and underwear. Fifty six years they were married. Yeah the good old days. Lol

[sawbill]

I had a friend whose father was very domineering in their house. Beat the kids and demanded respect. That friend has since turned out to be similar and treats his wife and kids in like fashion.
The good old days and the good old ways ain't always that great

[Foxx]

Ha I spit some beer out on that one haha

my grandfather did similar things,gramma use to have his supper ready on a TV tray in front of the tube at 6 pm. She made him a hot meal with a personal sized apple pie almost every night. It's just the way things were

My grandparents were much the same but they did have a long and happy marriage.

[trimmer21]

We were sent to a murder one night and there was "old Lord and Master" in his favorite chair in front of the TV with half his head gone and a bloody baseball bat sitting neatly beside him,his dutiful wife sitting by herself in the kitchen sipping a tea. I asked her what happened and all she said was "Thirty four years of his beatings and bulls**t and enough is enough." She got sent away for 14 months and she was out in 8.

[patvetzal]

My Grandfather was King around his house. Retired from GM and died quickly two years later. Grandmother continued to live by herself in the two story house until she moved to a home at 95. Lasted another eight years and enjoyed most of it..

[flowerjohn]

We were sent to a murder one night and there was "old Lord and Master" in his favorite chair in front of the TV with half his head gone and a bloody baseball bat sitting neatly beside him,his dutiful wife sitting by herself in the kitchen sipping a tea. I asked her what happened and all she said was "Thirty four years of his beatings and bulls**t and enough is enough." She got sent away for 14 months and she was out in 8.

The jays could use her.

[flowerjohn]

I think we are all in agreement here that men are essentially a pain in the arse. !! Lol.