Harley in big financial trouble

[olegoat345]

These days they'll live w/ mom & dad into their 30's.
I was 19 when I got home Sunday morning (hung over), just when Mom & Dad were leaving for church. Dad said, "are you coming or going?" "Coming" I said. Dad said, "Pack your stuff, you're leaving!"...… I was gone when they got back from church. Moved back in a few years later, for 3-4 months after my hitch in the Army. Been on my own since. That was a long, long time ago.

[SimonTemplar]

......Dad said, "are you coming or going?" "Coming" I said. Dad said, "Pack your stuff, you're leaving!"...… I was gone when they got back from church. Moved back in a few years later, for 3-4 months after my hitch in the Army. Been on my own since. That was a long, long time ago.

Yes...my father threw me out of the house when I was 19, too. I had been in Canada (on my nice shiny 1970 Triumph, actually) for four weeks and when I got home, my father said "Where the hell have you been for the past month?"

Now, you have to realise that I'd spoken to him the day that I left and had told him where I was headed. He said it sounded like fun and had even given me two hundred dollars for gas/food money 'just in case'. Of course....he was drunk off his ass at the time. (But then, he often was in those days.) Now, four weeks later, apparently after one of his famous cold turkey dry-outs....he was stone cold sober and had compleatly forgotten everything and didn't even remember talking to me that day.

And on top of it, as he'd come up short a couple hundred bucks about that time, he had decided I had stolen it from his wallet when he wasn't looking. Therefore....if I was going to steal money from him and disappear with it for weeks on end without a word.....then I didn't need to be living there any longer.

That was over 40 years ago. I haven't lived there since. (To be fair, he passed away a bit more than 10 years later. So, that made it easier.)




....sT