Yes it was. I joined the convo late and thought you said anyone running a marathon needed to be sub-150lbs and you were talking about world class elite runners. But fuck you, you had no sympathy/empathy for my handshake ordeal.
i think my point was simply that lighter the better for distance running, if your goal is quicker times. you can finish 26.2 weighing 275 (my buddy ran it with me as a HWT wrestler).
My FIL is moving to Denver I’m currently at a going away party for him at a pub A lot of fucking people here for him I want to go home
Mine does the handshake too. Hugs my wife, shakes my hand and says my name while shaking my hand each time. That goes for when we arrive at their house or leave their house.
In-laws came over to hang out while my wife decorates the Christmas tree. FIL sits down on the couch while football is on and falls asleep within 20 seconds of sitting down.
Same coming and going. Went on vacation with them and I think he shook my hand over ten times a day for a week.
Got some new additions. This past Sunday FiL celebrated Easter for Russian Orthodox. Try explaining why there are 2 Easter’s to my 6 year old. I may have said some things but she also recently has been doing the air quotes a lot. Instead of simply telling him Happy Easter she did the Happy “Easter”. I get a look from him like I set her up to do it. Definitely did not but I couldn’t help but give her a silent high five. Same day they had a new in the box deli meat slicer in the dining room. My wife’s grandmother is there and I thought maybe they just bought it. Turns out he never used it and was giving to the fire company for a yard sale. My wife suggests that I offer to buy it and he reiterates that it was for the yard sale. So instead of me taking it home and just giving her cash I guess I have to go to this sale and buy it. Some people just seem to make life difficult. He’s one of them. I’ll spare this thread but I could probably add to a Mother-In-law things as I have been on her passive aggressive shit list for a few weeks now.
These sort of stories are my guilty pleasure, I love how fucked up some people are in this world, or weird habits they have. My grandmother recently moved into a retirement community, (she's 94) anyways my dad and aunt had a garage sale for the stuff she couldn't take with here, well she has plenty of money especially being 94, well anytime a kid or grandkid wanted something you had to pay for it, even if it was 25cents, she kept a tab for everyone and made sure you knew you had to pay.
My grandmother was an avid stamp collector. One time when I was like 8 or 9, I expressed some polite superficial curiosity about her hobby. About a month or so later she mails me my very own stamp collecting album, a bunch of stamps to put them in, and an invoice for how much I owed her. My mom paid the invoice and I had to work off the money in chores. Every year for like the next 6-7 years whenever she visited, she would bring me stamps and I had to sit down with her for 3-4 hours putting those fuckers in my album and then she’d give me an invoice for how much I owed her. It sucked ass.
I came across that album about 20 years ago and solid it for like 150 bucks to some collector who probably lowballed me but whatevs. I’d say the monetary value was close to a push from what I originally had to pay but no way did it equal the time I had to spend putting all those stamps in there and listen to her lecture me about taking better care of my album which I couldn’t give 2 squirts of piss about
Getting stuck participating in a hobby your grandparent loves that you only casually follow at best is typical, but getting stuck with the bill of that participation is just cruel.
Along the hobby talk my wife’s grandfather passed a year ago and has collected model trains his whole life. There is a shitty side to her family that will no doubt just liquidate this for whatever low life reason they want. I tried to suggest to pay cash to the family for the collection but that again is too logical. My wife and daughter were the only ones he would take down and show his layout he had off and I’m trying to preserve that memory. No doubt he has the same train magazines that started this thread.
She was the prototypical grandparent you hated to visit. Nothing fun in her house. Even the candy she kept was a congealed brick of sadness.
Yeah, this is blowing my mind. I think the only time my grandpa would take money from me was when we would "bet" $0.25/hole when we played golf together, but he'd ultimately end up just slipping the money I paid him back into my bag at the end of the round.
Did she legitimately hate your mother/father growing up or something? Even the strict "I never show emotions" grandparents generally spoil their grandkids.
Her husband died when my mom was young. She spent the rest of her life coping with his death by verbally abusing my mom
Well on my dad’s side, my grandpa didn’t tell my dad he loved him until my dad was 40 and my grandma treated me and my sister like second class citizens compared to our cousins as punishment for my dad not wanting to live the rest of his life in Ohio...so yeah, fond memories of my grandparents are few & far between
Meanwhile...my father in law has a huge garden and is constantly giving us fresh vegetables which is awesome but he gives us too much to keep up with
She was just looking out for him, finding a more cruel hobby than Michigan football fan hood is not that easy. Great woman imo
I’d get down with this guy. Along the lines of free veggies my MIL brings us free fruits and veggies every week but they are the most random variety. Last week we got 2 lemons and a potato. She goes to these meal sites for elderly and poor people and that’s her meal for the day, and at this site everyday they have just a table of food from this local grocery store that is supposed to go to the needy that show up. So she grabs what she thinks I would cook with and brings it over. I could write a book on my MIL, hoarder, borderline dementia, and a complete lazy ass.
It’s a panoramic because it’s probably 25’. He hand made everything. We are from a coal mining area and he would remake the stuff from the area. The attention to detail is pretty crazy detailed. I don’t see us ever taking the layout but would rather help donate it to the mode train club he started.
that's fucking awesome. Unfortunately, unless he built it with the intent that it can one day be taken apart, it's probably not going anywhere though I'm sure the club could figure something out. What does the family want to do with it?
What’s not pictured is literally hundred or so engines and sets. It could probably be pieced out or some of the more detailed parts at least and rebuilt into a new layout. His intentions were never to move it that’s for sure. I have a full basement but couldn’t see taking that in. I’d love to find a home for it where it can be appreciated. Literally the mans life work in a hobby. (Not on my FiL side by the way which is why we got along so well).
right, but some people who build layouts build it in sections so that if they ever wanted to build a new one, the original can be taken apart and donated. doesn't look like that's the case here, but you never know. The club would be able to tell you. any idea if the layout was updated to digital? also, any idea how old some of the locomotives are?
He was as old school as they come. I doubt anything was digital. I offered to help catalog and organize it for them but there was no interest. Some are very old. Good story. He gave us a small layout to borrow for around our tree one year with a locomotive that you could put the smoke pellets in. Did a little research on it and it was selling on eBay for about $500. Putting it together I snapped some piece of the track off. My wife is in tears so I find a hobby shop an hour away and go find this part. They were like a dollar so I bought 5. She was so upset but told him and he said he has probably 25 in his basement. I said this to her but she wouldn’t believe me. I told him well now you have 5 more.
casual hobby that one day I'd like to dive into a bit more. AIP knows way more then I do. There is no model train thread unfortunately.
Haven’t spoken to my soon to be father in law in a year and a half. Hell haven’t seen him in a year up until Easter weekend when I intentionally went up and shook his hand. I did get a peace out. Doesn’t matter that I’ve been sober for 14 months. All he sees is his daughter marrying and alcoholic/addict. His loss. We’ve moved on without him. He can be part of our lives if he wants but we’ve given up trying to reach out to him.