I've heard it put "sometimes you get the bear sometimes the bear gets you".
Saw you know it's bad when friends tell you, "If it wasn't for bad luck, you wouldn't have any".
Or as another one said, "You have the Luck of the Irish! During the Potato famine".
had guys tell me both of those. My answer was, "Murphy is an In-Law."
saw1
Loc: nor cal Windsor
Dang AD, that's bad. Alls I can say is I hope it gets better.
LOL, I always try and plan for the worse, then if it doesn't happen, I'm happy. LOL When my brother and I would go up in the hills in AZ and NM, I had spare parts in the Toolbox on the truck and 2 spare tires. if your 30 miles from town, much less a tire repair place, one flat is ok, but 2 will make to a believer of more spares. As the dirt roads were a little rough, all the tires had tubes in them. Also in the bed of the truck was a 6 foot "Digging Bar" for moving rocks out of the way to save the oil pan. LOL
When I head toward the hills I always carry a spare battery & jumper cables. When headed to Canada or other distant place I carry an extra boat trailer spare plus a box containing a complete trailer hub & tools to change it. I'm a believer in greasing my hubs but over the years I have used the extra spare & hub. Crap happens out west. When i go off on a hunting trip i take an extra gun, just in case. Never needed the extra shotgun or rifle but it's comforting knowing it's there if needed. I don't think a man can be too prepared. It's really the same reason we
have a tackle bag full of lures & hooks. Just in case the fish don't hit a diving lure we've got a topwater.
msmllm wrote:
That's what you call a Sick Joke.
Well it was a sick joke. I'm 78 yrs old but don't act my age. I remember when we were teenagers always telling sick jokes. One was "can Johnny come out to play baseball with us" The Mother replied "you know Johnny doesn't have any arms or legs" Oh, we just wanted to use him for 3rd base.
We would laugh at our sick jokes. Sort of immature, I guess.
Well at 78 for you and 72 for me, we've earned the right to be a little immature now and then. Don't you think?
saw1
Loc: nor cal Windsor
Hey, it's all in fun. I try my best not to take things too seriously. Life is too short, and the Bible says that we are not suppose to worry about things. God has it all under control. That's good enough for me.
audigger53 wrote:
Saw you know it's bad when friends tell you, "If it wasn't for bad luck, you wouldn't have any".
Or as another one said, "You have the Luck of the Irish! During the Potato famine".
had guys tell me both of those. My answer was, "Murphy is an In-Law."
And Murphy is Irish! When I was younger we had friends calling us Mr.& Mrs. Job. Gray skies always make the blue skies bluer.
saw1
Loc: nor cal Windsor
That's a nice outlook GW. Thanks.
How would we ever know a good time if we didn't have a bad one now and then? I've been about the world to some pretty miserable places and even under the worst conditions you might imagine, people were for the most part happy, joking, smiling, singing and dancing. People can be remarkable.
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