Stick?

[Strike For The South]

lol Strike, we like our trucks. WI has a lot of farms, and a large paper and logging industry (at least we used to :P), so there is plenty of need for trucks. My family saves a lot of money by heating with a wood stove, so I have been going into the woods with my father since I was a little kid helping with aquiring firewood. Cannot do that without a truck unless you like to take lots of long hard walks and get close to nothing done all day. :P We also used to to transport 100s of tons of massive stones from what used to be an old barn. We have went through a few trucks, and these ones have seen their share of work. :P You think the Texans are the only ones who know how to work?

Yes.

[Vuk]

Yes.

lol, haven't met my family Strike. I come from a very hardworking family, and lots of people around where I grew up are very hard working.

EDIT: I think Texans just have big egos.

[Strike For The South]

lol, haven't met my family Strike. I come from a very hardworking family, and lots of people around where I grew up are very hard working.

EDIT: I think Texans just have big egos.

Whatever you say yank.

That's a personal attack...on all three of me

[Vuk]

It is not a personal attack, just an observation.
Sorry Strike, but my family lived below the poverty line when I was growing up. My dad worked three different jobs and myself and all of my brothers and sisters worked outside and in the house as soon as we were old enough to. Life was not easy at all for me growing up, and being in a poor family, wearing the same two pairs of second hand clothes for a year, not having a TV, etc does not really increase the respect you get from people. The only thing I really had to be proud of as a kid was a good family, a good education, and that I knew how to work. I have been working my own way through college, and since my dad died, along with my two sisters, working for my family as well. I think knowing how to work is an important part of who I am, so I find it a little arrogant to hear someone on a message board who for all I know has never done a full days work in his life tell me I do not know how to. :P

[miotas]

there is nothing, in my book, quite as deserving of respect, as a hard days work to feed the family.

we never had things quite as hard as you vuk but my sister has a degenerative muscle disease and just achieving a basic standard of living for her is quite expensive for my dad.

*i should add that he is a labourer

[Vuk]

there is nothing, in my book, quite as deserving of respect, as a hard days work to feed the family.

we never had things quite as hard as you vuk but my sister has a degenerative muscle disease and just achieving a basic standard of living for her is quite expensive for my dad.

My early childhood was pretty hard on my family, because I have 5 siblings, and it is quite hard to support a family that size. When we started getting old enough to hold our own jobs and when my dad found better paying work things got a lot better for us. Not say that we ever became even "well off", things aren't bad.
Kudos to your dad. Is that anything that she can recover from?

EDIT: What does he do?

[miotas]

My early childhood was pretty hard on my family, because I have 5 siblings, and it is quite hard to support a family that size. When we started getting old enough to hold our own jobs and when my dad found better paying work things got a lot better for us. Not say that we ever became even "well off", things aren't bad.
Kudos to your dad. Is that anything that she can recover from?

EDIT: What does he do?

Unfortunately not.

What doesn't he do might be a simpler question, but the majority has been truck driving, recently he got a job out west trucking water for oil rigs(trucking oil was better money but if something happened we would have up **** creek) and now he's kind of a supervisor/plane refuler. That's about half of his working life but about a 10th of his resume , he even raced cars for a bit before i came along, guess that's where the car lovin thing comes from.

[Strike For The South]

Do I really need to put smileys after everything?