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Armybrat

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  1. Nah, Mrs. Brat’s old T-shirt celebrates a more memorable event than the Relays…
  2. In the early 1970s when my oldest son was about four years old, the wife & I took him down to the old Austin Mueller airport where the Goodyear Blimp was on display. The public was invited to park on surrounding streets and walk onto the airport grounds off to the side away from the runway area where it was tethered to the ground. We went that morning along with hundreds of other families - and as we walked across the grassy grounds approaching the blimp it got bigger & bigger. It really was an impressive sight, and my son gawked wide-eyed in awe loudly exclaiming two or three times, “Gawd damn, gawd damn….” while several people sterted staring at the profane little kid. I was holding in the laughter, but Mrs. Brat was mortified and tried to pretend she didn’t know that mouthy boy.
  3. I got this T-shirt for working the 1964 Texas Relays as a student volunteer.
  4. The page has been stuck together for generations. Jizz jar out front shoulda told ya.
  5. Armybrat

    Getting old sucks

    Very scary experience this afternoon. At 8am we dropped off my Civic at the Honda Service center close to the Interstate in Round Rock 15 minutes from the house. We’ve done that route literally hundreds of times in the past 30 years (car dealerships, restaurants, hospitals, shopping). We picked it up at 3:30pm, then I drove out of the service place with wife intending to follow me home. After getting out on the street to the intersection I noticed she was slow leaving her parking space, but the light turned green and I had to get going. A half block up the road I discovered I had left my cellphone at the service desk, so immediately tried to circle back thru a McDonalds, but was forced to make a U-turn. Rush hour traffic was starting and was pretty heavy. Anyway, retrieved the phone and headed home quickly to try to catch up with her. Arrived home…and no wife. I knew she had no plans to make any stops, so I became very worried and got back in my car to backtrack to look for her. I called her cellphone to find out where she was. When she answered she said “I’m lost and have no idea where I’m going”. Of course that scared me shitless, especially when I asked her if she saw any familiar business buildings or street signs. She answered in the negative - and her voice was getting very weak. I was ready to call 911, but then she saw a road sign and a school campus, so I had a rough idea where she was. I told her to pull into any business parking lot, describe it to me, then wait for me to come get her to lead her home. I found her at a gas station by the Cracker Barrel restaurant and had her follow me home. On the way back I noticed she was driving slightly erratically, then it dawned on me she was probably having another one of her low glucose “spells” like she had just before Thanksgiving two years ago. We had to call 911 for that one because she looked like she was going into a catatonic state. Then I remembered she only had her chocolate breakfast drink before we left the house that morning, and no lunch because she went to the 12:30pm Ash Wednesday Mass at her church (fasting before communion). Plus she ate nothing afterwards. Luckily we were in our neighborhood by that time and she safely made it into our driveway. Once inside she sat on the couch just staring at nothing, so I brought her some grapes to eat, then one of her power bars. After that she became more alert and responsive. I laid down the law that from now on she has to have something more substantial for breakfast and to eat a sandwich for lunch, just to keep herself going until dinner. She can be very stubborn about that - in fact when I heated up a pot of leftover spaghetti and meat sauce, she would only eat a few small spoons of the pasta. I am at wit’s end about this attitude- and it isn’t doing my mental state & blood pressure any good. As I said, it scared me more than I’ve ever been. Told her if this is the way she wants to be, then we were going to move into the nice assisted living community next to our neighborhood.
  6. Armybrat

    Getting old sucks

    Shooter, how are you doing?
  7. I’m sure he gets a lot of takers.
  8. My youngest son is 52. His longtime live in girlfriend is 68.
  9. Last pair of overalls I saw in person was in 1984 - my granddad’s former employee mechanic at his rural Missouri auto repair shop.
  10. Don’t see any moms or cougars at the League in Avery Ranch….
  11. I do not recognize that hand sign in context with aggy. Can somebody please help me out here?
  12. My nephew, now retired, was a longtime Kerrville police officer. Johnny had the privilege of sitting in the back seat of his patrol cruiser on at least one occasion that I am aware of.
  13. This page needs some “pron”….
  14. Wasn’t there a band by that name at the last SXSW festival?
  15. Same son who owns the red ‘59 Apache. (Prom night 1990, and college dropout 1994)
  16. This is the line I have used several times in the past year. Mrs. Brat doesn’t like my humor.
  17. Note the empty seats in the endzone “knothole” section….and the lack of Burnt Orange attire in the student sections.
  18. NM, here it is: https://www.texasfootball.com/hof-johnny-lam-jones?ref=search In that race, after dropping the baton at the third exchange, Johnny picked it up and started running from 30 or so yards behind the pack. He wound up passing them to win the race for Lampasas. His anchor time was clocked at 43.8 - which was unheard of anywhere in the track & field world at the time 49 years ago. He later set a UT record in the 100 yard dash at 9.21. His 100 meter time was relatively slow at 10.14.
  19. No, it was in meters. Back then a world class time in the 100 yard dash was 9.2 seconds….give or take .1. JLJ’s most famous run was when he anchored his high school mile relay team in the State track & field championship finals. I was there and still cannot believe what he did to win that race. Y’all can look it up.
  20. Whataburger.
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