Random Thoughts IV
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Carvers. I'm too lazy to clean a cup. You think I'm going to go find a coconut, husk it and crack it open?!
I had a coconut tree in my backyard growing up. Would cut them down, put them in the fridge, and use my machete to cut open the top and crack them open afterwards. A more innocent time.
Attempting to sleep on the couch with a 90 pound dog that is flipping out over thunder so he doesn't keep everyone else awake. Dog slobber alert.
My brothers all had access to the ax at a fairly young age to chop firewood, but no machete. Also shot mice with their pellet guns. Of course, I would flip out if my kids were doing any of that.:spinny:
My dad used to deliver fuel. He would tell us about the old guy whose wife ran a daycare (one of the "we can only have so many kids so we don't have to be licensed" places). Ended up the boys would hang with the guy, girls with the woman. One day he pulls in and is filling the tank, chatting with the old guy, and one of the kids is climbing on something. Old guy yells at him "Get down offa there, you'll fall down and strip your nuts, and I won't have a wrench to tighten them with". Another day, same situation, kid runs up to him and asks "hey marvy, can we play with the machete?" Old guy says no, but it's clear from the kid's tone that this is not an uncommon thing to do.
My grandpa used to drive my grandma crazy. He had machetes under the bed, in the trunk of his car, in the ceiling crawlspace, in his tool shed, etc. His reasoning? "You never know when you're going to need it" After he passed away, my grandma kept finding hunting knives and machetes all over the house. My grandfather was a strange, strange man.
My grandpa gave me a machete (dull, of course) at age 5 so that I could pretend to help him clear the yard.
No, I was a teenager by this time. My grandparents house did not have coconuts. Only a maranon tree (the fruit where cashews come from) and some yucca plants. My house had a coconut tree and a lime tree.
One the way to the gym and, ironically, I walk by this huge pile of coconuts. Just randomly sitting there, in the middle of Waikiki.
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