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    So me and my little guy Jason are hanging out this week. We drop in to a hobby shop to check out the models and such. This is the following conversation I has with a well meaning elderly gent.

    He says, hey looky there we got a young man looking for his first model. I smile and say: maybe, depends on what they have in the snap fit area. The man says he built his first model when he was 7 and we caht for a bit....then his face turns sour, he gets this kind of sympathetic look on his face and says is there something wrong with him? I shake my head and smile and say nope,ain't nothin' wrong with this guy. The man points again and says: well what's them things in his ears? I said: Oh, those? Those are his hearing aids, he is deaf. The man again looks sad and says: Boy I sure hate to see that....To which I reply...Well sir, you could look at it like that, or you could see it from my point of view. Me and my boy are shopping for model cars, we will go home play video games, catch, we will go swimming, bowling, we will ride bicycles and we will run and jump, drink soda and eat too much candy....sir, there ain't NOTHIN' wrong with this one. He ain't in a hospital bed with tubes hooked up to him and I don't have to worry that today might be our last together......the old man smiled, and said, well son...I guess you got a handle on it then huh? I smiled and said oh yeah, we got this....lol....I have come a long way...years ago I woulda snapped at the guy...but instead I used some words to change his point of view....
    If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark Donohue

  • #2
    OK Joe - you got me. Now I'm all weepy (which happens a LOT). You've got it exactly right and young Jason is lucky to have a Dad with the right idea. Not sure my dad could have had such a - well - CORRECT - attitude. Looks like you guys are having the GOOD life.

    Carry on!
    Grandpa Dan

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    • #3
      Anybody can fight, it takes intelligence to win with words......

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      • #4
        Wheeeww. I thought this was going to end up ugly. lol I had visions of you with denture parts imbedded in your knuckles.

        Life is short. Be a do'er and not a shoulda done'er.
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        • #5
          Well done, Joe!

          When Tom was little, his head was pretty misshapen and so we had to have him wear this helmet deal around for like a year that would help his head to shape out right. Anyway, you can imagine what people do when they see a little guy wearing a helmet. Like you, I got pissed off at first, then as time went by it was easier to screw with/set people straight without being pissed. I used to fire grapes at him in the store and he would try to catch them as they bounced off.

          Nice work Joe.

          Brian
          That which you manifest is before you.

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          • #6
            My wife and I refuse to pitty out kids...we have 4 and 2 are deaf....we push them like we push the others...no double standards and no compramise. Some parents of deaf kids don't see it our way and they can do what they lik..it amazes me how societ coddles these kids..schools and people treat them like they are disabled and the kids ebd up believing it......my wife is a deaf educator. And she is very blunt with parents when it comes to educating their children with a hearing loss.....the sad part of it all is that the parents are often the biggest enablers...they feel guilty so the shelter the kids OR worse....they deny there is a problem and the kids never get a proper education.....

            Anyway...off the soap box...welcome to a day in he life of Joe.
            If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark Donohue

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            • #7
              Delete repost...
              Last edited by JOES66FURY; June 30, 2011, 02:31 PM.
              If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark Donohue

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              • #8
                Nicely done, Dad, nicely done.
                I'm still learning

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Brian Lohnes View Post
                  Well done, Joe!

                  When Tom was little, his head was pretty misshapen and so we had to have him wear this helmet deal around for like a year that would help his head to shape out right. Anyway, you can imagine what people do when they see a little guy wearing a helmet. Like you, I got pissed off at first, then as time went by it was easier to screw with/set people straight without being pissed. I used to fire grapes at him in the store and he would try to catch them as they bounced off.

                  Nice work Joe.

                  Brian
                  X2. It is easier and more fun to handle it like that. Getting pissed accomplishes nothing.
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                  • #10
                    assumers are everywhere...can't even get mad.

                    the opposite realm of seeing disability while disabled exists too.

                    even my dad does not quite comprehend where I am at.

                    the world is what it is..could be anything.
                    Previously boxer3main
                    the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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                    • #11
                      I had a real early introduction to the deaf ..across the street from my grampa , the family had two deaf kids , my grandfather was fluent in sign language from the police department , so we would go over and hang out

                      learn something new every day

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                      • #12
                        that you do....

                        Some people will stare when we sign..sometimes when they stare I will tell everyone to look at the person who is staring and wave LMAO...they get so flustered....
                        If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark Donohue

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by JOES66FURY2 View Post

                          Me and my boy are shopping for model cars, we will go home play video games, catch, we will go swimming, bowling, we will ride bicycles and we will run and jump, drink soda and eat too much candy....
                          Joe, you left out rebuilding Dodge engines....
                          Yes, I'm a CarJunkie... How many times would YOU rebuild the same engine before getting a crate motor?




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                          • #14
                            Nicely handled! Like you, when I was younger, I would've been tempted to fold his front teeth in also. I like to think I've gotten better with age.
                            Formerly Shannon (aka: HillbillySailor). 2549 posts.

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                            • #15
                              The way I look at is that we are all handicapped in one way or another and some more than others.It's no different than talent,skills
                              or mechanical abilities.Just do the best you can with what you've got.
                              Calypornya...near the beach

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