bounce stuff off him

Yeah, I had this very idea back in July when my dad was in Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. My brother was in Florida and wanted my dad checked on daily, so I went each night to visit and then phone my brother a report. I am standing in the room, and my father looks at me and says " Where have you been? I told him I had gone to the cafeteria to get a drink and burger...which I was holding. He looked at me and said Where have you been for the last fifteen years, I have hardly seen you?

I was furious. My first inclination was to snatch his ass upright in that bed, stick my H&K to his forehead and blow his brains all over the wall, then walk out to the nurses station and tell them he committed suicide. Instead, I turned and walked out. No sense leaving a $1,000.00 handgun lying on hospital room floor and risk wearing a orange jumpsuit the rest of my life.

My dad was self-centered and oblivious and nobody was ever going to change him. I spent the night with him before he died...as my youngest brother did not want our dad left alone. I left the next day at noon when my sister got there and he passed at 4:00 p.m., as my youngest brother was headed to the hospital to visit him.

We got the last laugh, his three remaining sons and three grandsons laid him in the ground next to my mother. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />