Do guys EVER get tired??

[turkeyrun]

Tenacity is passed on, but also needs to be taught and seen. To many young males being raised without a Dad.

The man that raised my brothers and I told me one time there will come a time where you’ll need to grab another gear, and there won’t be one to grab. He said this when he was 70, it hit me recently.

I was shown and taught, also tried to pass it on. "It's got to be done, it's not going to do itself. Tomorrow it will be something else needing doing. So, get it done."

Grandson needed a job, told him, GY was hiring. He says, "I'm not working there."
Ask him, "you think I LIKE it?" He looks at me funny, says, "you don't? Why do it?"

"Because I have a family to feed, I like having a dependable truck, bills paid, money in my pocket and good food."

Thanks to Gates virus, my transmission has dropped 2 gears and 3rd is slipping, but I am still moving forward.

Hormones, vitamins, physical condition does effect ability. Attitude is the main factor. Just get done what needs doing.

Papa worked the oil field at night and farmed cotton by day, when first married and raising kids. Quit oilfield, after I was born. Was a roofer until 65 years old, worked my butt off.
He passed at 73 years old, a cold, February afternoon. He had put a new muffler on his pick up that morning. Came in for lunch and told Mom to call ambulance. He didn't make it to the hospital.

I should be so lucky.

 

[BillM]

Yes, I get tired. Then I go to bed and sleep.

I go to bed after I get tired, then get the wife a snack and a drink, refill the hot water bottle, let the dog out, and then often can't get back to sleep. Like now. Been awake for hours... Didn't get to sleep until after 12:30, up before 5:00... had 1 cup of Earl Grey yesterday morning... gotta go try to juggle the budget yet again... found out over the past few days what the ER visits & hospitalizations are going to cost me, and need to fit them into the new budget... isn't really all that much, considering what they billed my insurance, but dammit, I just got it refigured Thursday, was up early Friday refiguting, and I was up late last night refiguring... today I'm going to repair a broken mop handle instead of buying a new one... oh well. Keeps me busy and out if the bars.

 

[Head Mule]

I mean tired of EVERYTHING (Said with the same inflection as that chick in the commercial says "NOTHING!" about mopping.

One of the things I admired about the men I grew up around (farmers, ranchers, cowboys and professional football players) is they NEVER stopped. NEVER. No matter what happened they just kept plugging along like it was another day in Paradise.

No matter that their favorite dog has just died, their wife had just run off and left a note on the dinner table say "Later!", and we were forecast with -30F weather with a -4639425565 wind chill smack dab in the middle of calving season and all the girls were in the back 40 because that's where the "good grass" was and the Cowboys were having a bad season, the kid just fell and broke his arm and the truck needed an oil change ...

What got this started is a show some feminist was ranting on about toxic masculinity. And I'm just sitting here wondering why a woman (women today, not me -- let me make THAT perfectly clear ) wouldn't want that toxic masculinity hanging around?? I mean y'all are the men who get **** done.

Well, and that led to how the **** do y'all do it?? I'm not gonna lie, I'm more like a man than a woman in a lot of respects but as God is my witness I WILL blow my top of things get too outta hand. Far as I am concerned there is such a thing as a bridge too far and I'm standing right here, tapping my toe, waiting for your dumbass to cross it so I can tell you what a piece of **** you are.

I know, I'm an odd cat ... Lol

So anyhow, how do y'all do it??

 

[Snattlerake]

We actually have had that discussion here. GOOD GOD!! I finally just picked out what I wanted. Know what he said?? Why is the wall white when you wanted to paint it gray???

Maybe you can answer my question about the home women think is the most perfect home built just for them when they buy it but have to remodel the damn thing a week later?

 

[0bserver]

Yep!

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I know more colors than I should but my extra cones shut off when the wife is picking paint swatches. I tell her all about it too.

 

[John6185]

I worked literally from sunup to sundown with a short break to eat one meal on many days and now the cost has been tabulated and I have been given arthritis.in nearly every joint. I often wonder who is the smarter, the guy who has grass 1 foot tall, sits on his porch watching me mow my grass in the heat of the day and do other yard work, painting the house...and then he goes in to take an afternoon nap. Never did figure out if he developed arthritis though.

 

[GutsonBorglum]

It’s like this Despite all the garbage out there by the feminists men and women are different and that’s alright because God made us that way for a reason. Women have thousands of more connections between the two hemispheres of their brains allowing them to process much more information at the same time. Women also have more cones in their eyes and can differentiate between shades of color much better than a man. Men have more blood for the same sized individual and larger lungs so we can get our muscles oxygenated much better than women. There are a gagillion differences but when it gets down to brass tacks women are better at certain things and men are better at others and it’s when we appreciate those differences that things run soooo much better. By the by “different” doesn’t mean more important or valuable….just different.

I agree. I did not realize till several years ago that there where scientific reasons for why women don't seem to see as well at night as a man. Men also typically register movement with their eyes better. When I was younger, I thought they made the whole different shades of white up. I mean can tell, let alone care? Then one day I was reading about this. I reassessed my view of women & realized that they are not as crazy as I thought. Still crazy but not as cray cray.

 

[sherrick13]

The problem is leftist women aren't happy with what women are good at. They want to be just as good as men at men stuff, even if they just 'act' like it and make everyone else accept it too.

As with 99.99% of the issues we have in the modern world it all comes down to this.....liberalism is a mental disorder.

 

[THAT Gurl]

I agree. I did not realize till several years ago that there where scientific reasons for why women don't seem to see as well at night as a man. Men also typically register movement with their eyes better. When I was younger, I thought they made the whole different shades of white up. I mean can tell, let alone care? Then one day I was reading about this. I reassessed my view of women & realized that they are not as crazy as I thought. Still crazy but not as cray cray.

Funny that's pretty much my take on men also. Still assholes but not as *******-y. Except for @Glock 'em down of course. It's a good thing he's young enough to be one of my kids or else I'd make a fool of myself chasing him around OSA on my broom ...

 

[THAT Gurl]

The problem is leftist women aren't happy with what women are good at. They want to be just as good as men at men stuff, even if they just 'act' like it and make everyone else accept it too.

As with 99.99% of the issues we have in the modern world it all comes down to this.....liberalism is a mental disorder.

I dunno man. One of my role models when I was a kid was a NA woman who worked for my dad AND the sale barn across the street from his practice in Talequah. I heard men (who would forget there was a 5 year old girl standing around just quietly listening) talk about how they wished they could hire ONE MAN as hard-working and tough as she was. I know my dad said several times he wished he could take her with us when he moved his practice. My mom overheard him ONCE. Don't need to tell you how that went. Oof ...

One of the many reasons I've never "fought" for a man. Don't want nor need the drama. You wanna stay, stay. You wanna go, go.

I have 2 rules. First, you will NOT hit me. And if you do, you better hope it kills me. And second, yeah I'm not gonna beg you to stay but I WILL make you WANT to leave if you continually act out.

What?? You thought you could just do whatever and there wouldn't be any consequences?? OMG, silly boy, that is NOT what I said ...