Re: OT - Texas.... and stuff

I love hearing about your family Jef, they have such great character. with
the stories you told of your dad no wonder your mom was attracted to him, he
sounds like he had the same moral direction as her father.
these stories should not be lost with you when you leave this earth esp
since you are such a great writer. I am thinking a book.
--
:) Lynn VOF Leaper
"Everyone seems normal until you get to know them."



"Jef." <jefo715@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Assholes who keep pets and neglect them or haven't got the damned common
sense to provide for them-- when the pets spend their lives in devotion
and giving unconditional love and service-- ought to be arrested. Or
worse. People who abuse animals are complete scumbags.

My mother told a story about walking in Van Cortlandt Park (NYC) one hot,
summer day when she was just a little girl. This would've been 1927 or
'28. Her grandfather-- my great-grandfather-- was walking with her,
holding her hand. She says she remembers vividly that as they rounded a
corner, they saw a poor, old horse harnessed to a cart. There was a big
load of something or other in the cart, and the horse was sagging in his
harness, unable to pull it. The driver was standing up in the front of the
cart, bent forward, beating the horse with a stick and yelling at it. The
horse was panting and obviously exhausted and in pain.

She says she remembers my grandfather (an elderly Irishman, well into his
70's, who'd kept many a horse in his day) going completely rigid, and then
crouching down and telling her: "Now, you stay right here, me darlin'--
don't you move from this spot." With that, he ran toward the man in the
cart, snatching up a fallen piece of tree branch as he went. He leapt into
the cart and proceeded to beat the living *** out of the driver, raining
blows all over his head and shoulders, all the while bellowing at him:
"Beat an old, defenseless animal, will ye? How do *you* like it, you
miserable son of a bitch?"

Onlookers had to pull him off the driver, who was cringing and sobbing.
They urged him to leave before someone called the police. Great
grandfather gave the man a final kick, said: "If I *ever* see the like of
that again, son, I'll cripple ye!" and returned to take my awe-stricken
mother by the hand. She recalls that he bought her ice cream later. Go,
great-grandpa; go! The world needs more people like him.



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