I grew up working at the shop with Pappy and Grand-dad. Pappy could have a temper, but it was Grand-dad I really couldn't work with in the shop. Funny, but Grand-dad could be patient with anyone else's kids, but if it was me or my brother helping out in the shop, whenever something went wrong, it was always "you boys" who did something wrong, "you boys" who misplaced his tools, and "you boys" who apparently couldn't learn anything. Grand-dad was an expert at both stick and oxyacetylene welding, but "you boys" apparently didn't need to learn how to weld...even though we were dying to learn. [I finally took some welding courses after Grand-dad died,and while I'm not a total expert, I can weld well enough for my own purposes...and I came to love doing oxyacetylene welding, which is apparently a dying art now that MIG and TIG are so prevalent.]
Pappy was different. He was more patient with my brother and me than he was even with himself, and I learned a lot--both mechanics and the theory behind it--from Pappy. After Grand-dad died, even though I worked elsewhere, I helped Pappy out in the shop whenever I could. And when I was on one side of the shop working on something and Pappy was on the other, and I'd hear cussing and see hammers flying across the shop, I'd say, "Hey, Pap, let's go get a cup of coffee and see if it looks different when we come back to it"...a technique I learned from Pappy. And it usually worked out well.
Pappy was my best friend. Last month it was 18 years since he passed away at age 61, and I still miss him like crazy. I'd give anything in the world to be able to take another coffee break with him, and listen to him tell another one of his deer hunting stories.
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