BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:

Subject: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 22 Oct 13 - 08:00 PM

Take your choice from below, (or mention someone else if you wish) with stories of who inspired you and why so. I suspect some of the stories could be very interesting, inspiring, and heart-warming to others - so, why not share them (I will also do so later on)?

My Mother was a wonderful and inspiring person because:

My father was a wonderful and inspiring person because:

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Oct 13 - 08:07 PM

My dad was a prick... He was a Republican... He never passed up an opportunity to tell me how disappointed he was that I didn't follow in his footsteps...

My mom was - and is - 180 degrees opposite... She was involved in the civil rights movement and anti-war movement... Arrested several times... She was also into the arts and dragged me thru one gallery after another as a toddler...

Loved 'um both but loved and still love my mom a bunch more than my dad who died about 10 years ago...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Elmore
Date: 22 Oct 13 - 08:14 PM

This is one of the more depressing threads I've encountered.

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 13 - 08:15 PM

.... they tolerated each other.

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Elmore
Date: 22 Oct 13 - 08:27 PM

..... They sent me to live with my great-grandmother

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Oct 13 - 08:57 PM

My mother-father were wonderful because: they were human. Very human.

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 13 - 08:59 PM

My father and mother were wonderful because they gave the world ME, the epitome of everything.

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Amergin
Date: 22 Oct 13 - 09:37 PM

They didn't kill me...however since they are still around, they can always change their minds.

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: GUEST,Musket satisfied
Date: 23 Oct 13 - 04:54 AM

Mine were the penultimate perfection.

It just took one more generation to achieve the aim.

Mind you, good job my two lads have better things to do than post on Mudcat.......

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: G-Force
Date: 23 Oct 13 - 06:04 AM

... they gave me piano lessons. Boy, did they start something.

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Elmore
Date: 23 Oct 13 - 10:36 PM

...... They caused me to seek out and find a caring psychiatrist.

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Oct 13 - 11:13 PM

My mother has a vagina
My mother has a vagina
My mother has a vagina
And she's been good to me.

[gargoyle!]

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 24 Oct 13 - 06:57 AM

What a crying shame!

This thread could have been an uplifting series of stories about some pretty amazing people, but the pond scum got to it and there is no way that I would introduce my parents to him/her, or more likely it.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Oct 13 - 02:01 PM

Well, Don T., let's see if we can raise the tone.

Both of my parents were wonderfully supportive of things my sisters and I were seriously interested in.

When I was six years old, I started drawing comic strips, inspired by "Buck Rogers" in the Sunday funnies. When I was still at it at the age of twelve, and determined to be a second Milton Caniff or Hal Foster, I had acquired a couple of books on how to draw comic strips and what materials were needed. My father took a list I had made up (of India ink, the right kind of pens, the right kind of paper, and other necessary accouterments) to an art supply store and brought home a supply of goodies. I was ecstatic, and went to work assiduously producing an adventure strip about a World War II fighter pilot. That he bore a striking resemblance to Steve Canyon was not really intentional. . . .

My two sisters both "ODed" on Sonja Henie movies early on and wanted to take up figure skating. After attending a few public sessions at a local ice arena, they decided they wanted lessons. Dad signed then up with a local pro and bought them the right kind of skates. My mother drove them to and from these lessons. The end result of this endeavor was that both of my sisters won national skating championships, and my younger sister qualified for the World Championships in Vienna in 1955 (came in seventh behind powerhouse skaters like Tenley Albrigbt and Carol Heiss). My mother chaperoned and took care of a multitude of details. Dad provided the necessary funds.

Both of the girls turned professional and turned to teaching skating.

In my teens, I had taken up fencing. The family went to Berkeley, Caifornia for a few weeks for skating training, and while Mom and the girls were at the ice arena, Dad drove me to San Francisco where I took some fencing lessons from Hans Halberstadt, who was the Olympic fencing coach at the time. I took lessons from Halberstadt and had a chance to meet and fence with Gerry Biagini and Salvatore Giambra, two Olympic team members. They graciously cleaned my clock, of course, but I really learned a lot from them. I have a satisfying collection of medals and trophies from fencing in local competitions.

When I became interested in folk music in around 1953 and took some folk guitar lessons from Walt Robertson, I paid for the lessons on my own dime (Walt didn't charge much). Working in summer of 1953 for Boeing, I bought a Martin 00-18. Then, Walt suggested that I begin taking classical guitar lessons after he had exhausted what he could teach me. The only classic guitar teacher he and I knew of lived in a different part of Seattle, difficult to get to on the bus, so my mother drove me to the lessons.

During the first lesson, the teacher said that my Martin steel-string guitar was unsuitable and offered me a classic guitar that the store he taught in had in stock: a Martin 00-28-G.

I couldn't afford it. My mother, who was sitting in on the lesson asked the teacher a couple of questions, then said to me, "Consider it an early birthday present," and wrote out a check for the guitar and a good hardshell case. The store took my 00-18 in trade—for what I had paid for it!

My mother continued to drive me to the weekly lessons, until the teacher said he had just heard of an excellent classic guitarist in my immediate area who had started giving lessons. And he went to the student's house!

By now, I had changed my major at the University of Washington from English Literature to Music. I paid for much of it, but my Dad made up the difference.

I'd say that Mary and Patricia and I were blessed with pretty terrific parents.

They didn't push us into these activities, but anything we were seriously interested in, they were supportive all the way.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Elmore
Date: 24 Oct 13 - 02:54 PM

This is addressed to Don T., 2 entries back. I am not, nor have I ever been pond scum for reacting in a negative fashion to this topic. I guess my parents did the best they could, but had no parenting skills. I love my son and he's grown into a loving. caring father. This subject just hit a sore spot for me. I'm happy for everyone out there who had wonderful parents. Regards, Elmore

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 25 Oct 13 - 03:22 PM

Well Elmore, my comment wasn't aimed at you, but at the nameless GUEST whose potty mouth post followed yours.

If, however, that guest was you, my comment stands.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Elmore
Date: 25 Oct 13 - 03:56 PM

Don (Wyziwyg)T.: I am NOT the mystery guest.Still, I could be accused of turning an innocuous thread into something unpleasant. Sorry if that was the case.

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 25 Oct 13 - 10:45 PM

My mother-father were wonderful because: My dad had sex with my mom, and, well, here I am....my Mother was wonderful because she didn't swallow me!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Don Firth
Date: 25 Oct 13 - 11:02 PM

Jeez!! Like finding a cigar butt floating in the punchbowl. But considering the source, what else could one expect?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 26 Oct 13 - 12:34 AM

Yeah!..You could even smoke it....for a change!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 26 Oct 13 - 06:30 AM

No accusations in your direction Elmore. You made an honest comment.

But the others, with IQs barely exceeding their collar size, are determined to take over, so good luck to 'em.

I'll pass!

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: My mother-father were wonderful because:
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Oct 13 - 11:21 PM

I could point out that my parents were married on January 15, 1944 and I was born February 11, 1945 -- a quickie honeymoon as my father was quickly moving the Pacific Theater of WW2. He was in Manila when I was born, working for a Civil Affairs Unit that was trying to help a military/civilian hospital that had too many casualties and not enough doctors, nurses, medicine, good water, and other things.

I could point out that they had three other kids and that my father was killed in a construction accident when I was five. I could point out that my mother carried on alone, doing all in her power to raise three boys and girl "up right." I could point out that she saw all four graduate from college and one (me) receive an MS from a pretty good university. That she did everything in her power to give us an education in music, in literature, in math, in life in general even to the point of endangering her own health.

I could point out that she sweated out her husband, two brothers and three brothers-in-law being in the military during WW2 and then being handed the dirty stick of her three sons all going into active duty within 24 hours of each other -- and two would serve in Vietnam and another on the Korean DMZ.

But I won't.