[TheForge] OT - The science of driving.

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Yeah, he's a good guy.   His brain is cheese these days thanks to 
alzheimers, but his attitude is still great.  He broke a hip recently 
and the alzheimers actually helped.  Most elderly have a hard time 
getting back on their feet due to fear of pain and falling again.  Dad 
couldn't even remember breaking it, so he was trying to walk when he got 
out of recovery.  Of course explaining what happened to him every thirty 
minutes got old, but his recovery was short.  Nowadays, I am the one 
driving the twenty year old truck and parking it next to my wife's 
Navigator.    She has gotten used to me braking for really good garbage 
finally.  It helps that my son's have the same ailment.  He teenager 
gets upset when the other mom in the carpool won't stop for something 
really neat.     He has become a really good smith at sixteen.  The 
other day I talked my four year old son through making his first piece 
(I held the tongs).   It was a simple fish tail partial scroll and a 
twist.   I find the young ones are sometimes easier to teach than 
teenagers, since teenagers want to hit to hard.  The little ones will 
tap for hours and focus on hitting it at just the right place, rather 
than trying to drive it through the anvil.  

Charles


Larry and Pat Brown wrote:

>>  dad would arrive after school every day with his twenty year old 
>> truck with its signature garbage sack for a passenger window  and 
>> line up with all of the mercedes,   I never felt compelled  by peer 
>> pressure to fit in.  It was just never going to happen.
>>
>> Charles
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> Your Dad sounds like a man to be admired
> My hat is off to him