so, all you old fucks

[datasuspect]

how many people remember road trips where dad had a cooler of beer up front and drank throughout the family vacation?

i remember up through the early 80s in texas, drinking beer while driving was nearly universal among the lower middle and working class family neighborhoods we lived in.

howsabout you?

[lost-in-nj]

1. yeah baby!!!

god the cooler took up sooooo much room!!!

:)


lost

[lost-in-nj]

2. oh yeah

I am not and never will be

"an OLD FUCK"


:rofl:


lost

[3.14158675309]

5. Just a good one, eh lost?

:hide:

:pals:

[rug]

3. My Dad had the beer and a gallon jar for the long trips.

[datasuspect]

6. our fathers and grandfathers drank better beer

they came of age in a time when breweries were often local and distribution might extend to a particular MSA or possibly regional coverage.

[datasuspect]

4. this post was in the wrong place

and it must've been the wrong time.

[Inchworm]

7. Sadly, I was that dad.

I rarely drove though.

Learnt it from my pops. Hmm, in fact that's how I learnt to drive :D

:hide:

[GReedDiamond]

8. I have a step brother in law...

...a real life self avowed redneck from Louisiana. He measures the distances of his driving trips by the number of Bud Lights it takes for him to drink on the drive:

"Well that there trip was a muthafuggin 6 beer drive, I'd hafta say..."

Keeps his plastic cooler on the floor of his pickup truck and his in-use can in one of those insulated slip-over wrappers to help keep it cool while he's holding onto it.

He's kind of an asshole, but he's hysterically funny most of the time...

[datasuspect]

10. damn, i'm a real life redneck from texas

well, i was born in chicago but moved to texas when i was eleven and stayed there til mostly my early 30s.

education didn't even solve my redneck.

[Deep13]

9. Well, that was a no-no in Mass.

So two guys, one from TX and one from MA, are talking to each other. The Texan says back home he can drive all day and never leave his property. The New Englander responds with, "Yeah. I had a cah like that once."

[datasuspect]

12. i will quote bocephus

them boys up north don't hunt and fish
but a met a few squirrels

[Deep13]

13. Actually, they do. nt

[Mike 03]

11. Road Trips Here

My dad didn't have the beer, but we had the thermos of coffee every morning.

Oh, how I miss those road trips.

[no name no slogan]

14. All the old fucks, riding in trucks, crazy old fucks, riding in tru-uuuucks

Put that to the tune of Bowie's/Mott the Hoople's "All The Young Dudes" and you'll have a top 10 hit on your hands.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. Nope.

Dad was a reformed alcoholic, so no booze in the car or around the house.

Fortunately, I don't like booze and it doesn't like me either, so I skip it.

[mopinko]

16. if there had been road trips, they would have been like that.

no family vacations, but lots of beer drinking in my house.
i remember a picture of my nephew, now 40 something, but then about 18 months old, sitting on the ground, amidst a pile of beer cans, draining the last drops. and we thought that was funny.
yup, old.

[datasuspect]

17. the men were with the men and the women were with the women

the worst thing for a boy was to be labeled a sissy. the gender roles were rigorously adhered to.

[mopinko]

18. that little boy grew up to be

a bushbot, high up in the army. probable implicated in abu graib.

[Drunken Girlfriend]

19. .

Yes,that is a very accurate portrait of my father,
when I was growing up in the 80's.

Couldn't have said it better myself.lol

[liberaltrucker]

20. I was working in Texas in the early 80's

When the Legislature was considering an open container law.
This one good ole boy State Senator took the floor and exclaimed:
"Texans have a gawd-given right to have a brew on the way home from work!"
Alas, the bill passed. :(

[Theres-a]

21. I'll tell you what I remember

Sitting on my Auntie's lap at the age of 5 or 6. We are at the kitchen table for hours,talking,maybe playing cards. Mom is there.Grandma,too. Auntie is chainsmoking Pall Malls.Grandma is chainsmoking Chesterfields.Mom is chainsmoking Spring cigarettes.

BTW I am a 41 year old fuck who finally quit chainsmoking July 2007,myself.Seriously,I feel alot better.It took a long time, but it's better,and i used nicotine replacements for almost a full year.
People bothered me about long term use of nicotine gum,but I understood what i was up against quitting smoking.I know i am a real smoker.I believe would grow old and smoke between oxygen treatments,or through a hole in my neck,I just know it.I remember when Grandma was literally dying from lung cancer-smoking.I talk to my Auntie on the phone sometimes,I can hear how bad her breathing has gotten.She still smokes,although she has emphysema.I never call my mom too early in the morning because she coughs so much-still smoking.

I tried for 10 years-but this time,i hope it's over.

Theresa