Wow

The best part of this is it isn't the first time my dad told this joke by far.

What's the usual response?

He told me this is where I came from before my brother was ever born. So he was telling this story to a three or four year-old.

Lmao

The usual response the the eyerolling exhasperation you give with any dad joke.

Your dad is something else.

Is that where your humor comes from?

But this guy who is near death wanted his possible last words to be how one of his kids is a piece of crap.

It is certianly an influence.

What a way to go though. Iconic.

To be fair though, my brother kind of had it coming. Now I seqway into a story about the first time he almost died.

So a couple years before that he had a massive heart attack. I found out about this when I am on a date with my future wife.

So i'm pretty shook up. First time something like this happened, and I have an early shift. So i'm trying to rest for the night.

My brother however, is off the next few days. So he responds to this the same way he responds to everything. Goes out and gets drunk.

That's terrible

At around midnight I still hadn't fallen asleep. and I get a call from my brother.

I answer the phone and he says. "Hey grumplebee, I need to talk to you. Mom just called. Dad died.

His last words were "With my final breath I want everyone to know that I hated Grumplebee!"

needless to say I hung up on him.

Dad made a full recovery from both illnesses. Doctor said he woldn't know he'd had a heart attack if it wasn't on his chart, and he only lost 10% of lung capacity in one lung.

Did your dad put him up to it? Why did he do that?

No my dad wasn't up to doing anything at that point. he almost died and was in bad bad shape.

My brother just did it because he was proper drunk and thought it would be funny.

Did you ever tell him your brother did that?

Oh yeah.

He thought it was hilarious.

He probably did. Lol Is your dad doing well now?

Yeah, he's 60 now. Still working, and working on getting his doctorate of edutation. He's always wanted to be a doctor.

Way to go Grumplebee Sr!

And your brother is a better place?

My brother is a whole nother story.

He's had some problems, but let's not get full into that right now.

Your brother sounds like he'll along with your wives family. The messed up ones.

I don't want to get into the whole elaborate thing but he had a traumatically bad work experience. So did I actually. Neither of us coped with it super well. Indeed, we have most of the same problems. But to greater or lesser degrees depending on the particular issue we're talking about.

You ever hear that C.S. Lewis quote about Robber Barons and Moral Busybodies?

No I have not

I'll pull it up. It's a really good one, and one anyone in our area of the politcal spectrum should know.

Ok

One of the reasons why Trump was better than Clinton even *if* every last thing your ever heard about it was true. Including the hooker pissing thing.