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Old 03-31-2014, 06:57 AM
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littlefish
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This thread has brought the memories back in a big way! My alcoholic father was a consummate planner of outrageous and absurd schemes. The one that took the cake was his scheme to falsify his vital documents, dye his hair and lie his way into the Peace Corps, 25 years older than the age limit for applications.
Or his scheme to stop paying taxes. Or his scheme to win big on the stock market.
Of course nothing came of most of his schemes, he enjoyed talking about them more than actually carrying them out.
But sometimes he did carry them out.
I remember an awful trip to Juarez with my father: he got drunk. We were two kids, 11 and 13 with him, and my brother, 13, who had no drivers license ended up driving us home the 300+ miles with drunk father passed out in the back seat.
It's great your son put the brakes on this thing.
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