07-13-2013, 09:07 AM
My grandfather celebrated the birth of each of his children by buying a new hunting rifle. Hunting was something very important to him. He worked almost all of the time except for two weeks every December when he and my grandmother went hunting (notably, almost all of my aunts and uncles have a September birth date). This was so important to him that one year when the company he was working for told him they needed him to stay those two weeks he said "I'm going hunting. If there is a job here when I get back, I'll do it as best as I can but if not I'll figure something else out." At that point, mind you, he had four children depending on him. Then, on his death, he left them to his children.
But I had a hard adolescence so my mom refused to the gun in the house, so the gun meant for her was in my Uncle's house when it burned down. The dog woke everyone up so they all got out safely, but almost nothing was salvageable. So at least two of the five hunting rifles are lost. I'm not sure where the other three are.
But I had a hard adolescence so my mom refused to the gun in the house, so the gun meant for her was in my Uncle's house when it burned down. The dog woke everyone up so they all got out safely, but almost nothing was salvageable. So at least two of the five hunting rifles are lost. I'm not sure where the other three are.
You don't win the Game of Death by dying first. The name is misleading.