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Evening everybody....
True story about my dad and I from my teen years.....
"My most memorable Thanksgiving was the year I was helping my dad fix the sewer pump.....we lived at the bottom of a wet canyon right text to a large creek, so of course all the wastewater had to be pumped to higher ground for disposal.
Well, we'd been working on the pump for a couple hours in the snow.... finally got it put back together and started it up.....both squatting down there watching it run, thinking "it's going to work"!.... when all of a sudden the pump started to visibility expand......we had only enough time to realize our peril...... when it exploded.....right in our faces!
Rich brown stuff went everywhere.....we were both thoroughly showered....
I have no recollection of the turkey dinner that year, but I'll certainly never forget that shower....
Actually that's one of my fondest memories of my dad....not that our relationship wasn't good, but when you go through something traumatic with someone you never forget it.
True story about my dad and I from my teen years.....
"My most memorable Thanksgiving was the year I was helping my dad fix the sewer pump.....we lived at the bottom of a wet canyon right text to a large creek, so of course all the wastewater had to be pumped to higher ground for disposal.
Well, we'd been working on the pump for a couple hours in the snow.... finally got it put back together and started it up.....both squatting down there watching it run, thinking "it's going to work"!.... when all of a sudden the pump started to visibility expand......we had only enough time to realize our peril...... when it exploded.....right in our faces!
Rich brown stuff went everywhere.....we were both thoroughly showered....
I have no recollection of the turkey dinner that year, but I'll certainly never forget that shower....
Actually that's one of my fondest memories of my dad....not that our relationship wasn't good, but when you go through something traumatic with someone you never forget it.