Random Thought Thread

yoko said:
Well some good news tonight , my dad's been sedated on a vent in intensive care for 7 days, stopped in everyday to visit...

Well I get there tonight go to the nurses station as usual to ask how he's doing , I turn around and he's looking at me waving from his bed !!

Off the vent and talking to me but still on oxygen... but I'll take a positive step for him

Pretty damn good night and I'll have a beer to that!

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Glad to hear your dad is doing better. That’s definitely a big step in the right direction. Hope he has a speedy recovery. 🍻
 
When I was over in London working with the Met for a week or two, I got to see the Queen as she was being driven back to the palace. I have to say it was a nice moment having her wave at me and my partner as we smiled and saluted her.

It's certainly the end of an era. She's been the Queen as long as I've been on the planet. (She beat my arrival by several months...)
 
Never been around royalty, but I’ll never forget one woman…. Maybe 15 years ago, was doing a spring AC check up for a regular customer who just happened to have her mother move in with her.
Talked with her a bit, pretty strong accent, seemed like a nice old lady. Went about my business, going in and out, checking air flow and such. I walked by the mom at one point and noticed her sleeve was up a bit and saw this string of 6 numbers tattooed on her forearm. Thought to myself holy shit! She’s a holocaust survivor!!!!!
It really hit me hard and I think I just froze and was standing there staring at it. I started choking up a little and I hear her say “ it’s ok now” kinda soft. Snapped me out of it and I looked at her, smiling a little, and all I could think to say is I’m sorry….

I walked back to doing what I was doing, and as I was leaving, the lady says to me, mom says you’re a good man. Were you two talking?
Just a few words is all.
Never forgot that old lady….
 
sickpuppy1 said:
Never been around royalty, but I’ll never forget one woman…. Maybe 15 years ago, was doing a spring AC check up for a regular customer who just happened to have her mother move in with her.
Talked with her a bit, pretty strong accent, seemed like a nice old lady. Went about my business, going in and out, checking air flow and such. I walked by the mom at one point and noticed her sleeve was up a bit and saw this string of 6 numbers tattooed on her forearm. Thought to myself holy shit! She’s a holocaust survivor!!!!!
It really hit me hard and I think I just froze and was standing there staring at it. I started choking up a little and I hear her say “ it’s ok now” kinda soft. Snapped me out of it and I looked at her, smiling a little, and all I could think to say is I’m sorry….

I walked back to doing what I was doing, and as I was leaving, the lady says to me, mom says you’re a good man. Were you two talking?
Just a few words is all.
Never forgot that old lady….
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Back in elementary school, we had a substitute teacher who survived the Holocaust. She skipped the lesson plan and told us all about it. I still remember it well.
 
sickpuppy1 said:
Never been around royalty, but I’ll never forget one woman…. Maybe 15 years ago, was doing a spring AC check up for a regular customer who just happened to have her mother move in with her.
Talked with her a bit, pretty strong accent, seemed like a nice old lady. Went about my business, going in and out, checking air flow and such. I walked by the mom at one point and noticed her sleeve was up a bit and saw this string of 6 numbers tattooed on her forearm. Thought to myself holy shit! She’s a holocaust survivor!!!!!
It really hit me hard and I think I just froze and was standing there staring at it. I started choking up a little and I hear her say “ it’s ok now” kinda soft. Snapped me out of it and I looked at her, smiling a little, and all I could think to say is I’m sorry….

I walked back to doing what I was doing, and as I was leaving, the lady says to me, mom says you’re a good man. Were you two talking?
Just a few words is all.
Never forgot that old lady….
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As a youngster growing up in NYC during the 50's and 60's, it wasn't all that uncommon to come across survivors...and it was always something that clutched at your soul.

My former public school mate, and later roommate's, mother was a Polish survivor of Bergen-Belsen. His father was a British soldier who was among those who liberated the camp. They were a study in contrasts. He was always a happy-go-lucky sort, quick with a joke and that typical working class British humor. She was always somewhat dour and stand-offish. It was rare to ever hear her refer to her experience.

When I was in Paris in 1999, my cousin, an attorney there, told me the story of his father who was taken by the Germans in 1942 some months after he was born. He was taken to Drancy and later transported to Auschwitz where he was murdered. Their story is an amazing one, but a bit longish to recount here.
 
Along those lines, my brother did a class paper/assignment, and chose to write his paper on the holocaust. He managed to dig up a whole lot of material, including photos of prisoners at Auschwitz, Dachau and other camps.

I recall looking at those photos, seeing the emaciated, scared and thoroughly disheartened, broken looks of people who knew the fate that awaited them. 😔
 
bluemax_1 said:
Along those lines, my brother did a class paper/assignment, and chose to write his paper on the holocaust. He managed to dig up a whole lot of material, including photos of prisoners at Auschwitz, Dachau and other camps.

I recall looking at those photos, seeing the emaciated, scared and thoroughly disheartened, broken looks of people who knew the fate that awaited them. 😔
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My cousin, referenced above, was, shortly after the war, adopted by an American serviceman who married his widowed mother. He moved the family to Germany where he was stationed, and my cousin, who was raised Catholic in his mother's faith, in an ironic twist of fate was confirmed and had his first communion at Dachau.

You can't make this stuff up.

(His now late brother followed the adoptive father into lifelong service in the U.S. Army.)
 
Am I crazy, or did the OD Green Canvas Micarta scales on the HDFK have black liners? I just got my SDFK and the OD Green Canvas scales we solid, and the green was a bit lighter than the HDFK green I feel like. I no longer have the OD Green HDFK to confirm though.
 
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