💬 What Are You Thankful For?

So much to be thankful for and undeserved of all of the blessings in my life. I am not much into today's church scene but I am a believer and know that all glory goes to our Heavenly Father.

As Hank Jr. would say, "I was one of the chosen few to be born in Alabam". I still consider the Birmingham area to be home after leaving to go into the Air Force at 18. Mom's family lived in the Mobile area and that was our home away from home.

That being said, I met my wife Marilyn in 1989 and we have now been married over 34 years. We have one son, Eric and a daughter Samantha and they have given us 5 grandsons (Lukas, Phoenix, Dakotah, Everett and Kohen) ranging in ages from 8 down to 11 months. Needless to say, things get interesting around here for special occasions.

I ended up as a Corporate Travel Manager which was not on the bingo card many years ago but it has served us well. We don't travel a lot internationally but we have been all over the USA and we love to go to the Rockies at least once or twice a year. Colorado, Wyoming and Montana are just simply awesome!

On the sports front: Can anyone be more blessed than a college football fan that pulls for the Crimson Tide in our generation (GenX)? Even all of those years of pulling for the Tide in basketball have finally begun to pay dividends!

Finally, I am grateful for this site and the great friends I have met because of it. I miss some of the guys that left us too soon like Stanley George and Jimbo but also feel like I have known guys like Brandon, Keith and Kirk for most of my adult life. I appreciate all the effort TerryP, Tim and Lance has put into the site as well. Its the only message board I take time to visit anymore. It's home.
 
alabama mike said:
It is a blessing and a curse. What is really strange is having kids of kids you had in school and in some instances also knowing the grandparents from when the dad and mom were in school.
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Ms50+ was 20 year teacher.
Very small town. Would take her twice as long to go to grocery. Seems everyone was parent. Grandparent. Or former student.
And they all wanted to talk. Lol.
 
50+yeartidefan said:
The curse of being a teacher.....cant do nuthin'
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Unloaded 4 trucks this week! Upwards of 300 pallets, 7000 cartons and over 20,000 individual pieces, total weight maybe 110,000 pounds. Not all unloaded by hand, but I touch A LOT of it! Get 8+ miles a day just unloading when it comes to getting my “steps” in for exercise!
Did you guys know that HD sells over a MILLION items online? 😳👀
 
TerryP said:
In this case he's moved away from all the dumbasses that tend to shop ... I'll bet I've given more advice in hardware stores than I've heard.
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So the time clock is on one side of the store, completely opposite to receiving! Can’t tell you the number of times I get stopped going from one to the other!
 
UAgrad93 said:
Unloaded 4 trucks this week! Upwards of 300 pallets, 7000 cartons and over 20,000 individual pieces, total weight maybe 110,000 pounds. Not all unloaded by hand, but I touch A LOT of it! Get 8+ miles a day just unloading when it comes to getting my “steps” in for exercise!
Did you guys know that HD sells over a MILLION items online? 😳👀
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We ordered our water heaters for the house through HD.com - and a replacement for the one that died - along with some patio furniture and several other things. To me, it seems more likely to get beat up coming in that way, but they have some decent prices.
 
It Takes Eleven said:
We ordered our water heaters for the house through HD.com - and a replacement for the one that died - along with some patio furniture and several other things. To me, it seems more likely to get beat up coming in that way, but they have some decent prices.
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The guys at the distribution center must have the mental capacity of the primate building at the local zoo. Some days, we get stuff with fork holes run through them, gallons of paint stacked upside down or on its side, same for bleach and they wonder why we give them a bad rating because we have to take 20-30 minutes cleaning their shit up! Occasionally though, they will have loaded the truck before huffing paint, popping pills, or whatever else they do.
 
UAgrad93 said:
@It Takes Eleven @Rolltide24 you two laugh but I’m dead serious! Some days, it’s uneventful, then other times, we’re cleaning up paint spills, and fighting off bleach and fertilizer fumes.
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I'm laughing. Loudly.

I don't mind talking to people in the store as long as I'm not trying to figure something out on my own. I doubt I'd mind the job. It does remind me ...

The local ACE. When they were locally owned I became pretty good friends with the manager. He was a "go to" guy if I wanted something in that store. I would have LOVED to work for him. EXCEPT.

The aisle that has all their bolts, nuts, screws, etc...a good 30 yards long. A little bins. When they would hire someone their first few weeks were spent stocking those bins. I get it...learn the inventory. But good lord the frustration those folks must have felt!

A chain came in an bought the place about two or three years ago. I rarely go back. Like Tim mentions...I rarely don't buy things online (except lumber and then I will on occasion.)

(Found a five lb box of deck screws through W+ a few weeks ago for 14 bucks a piece...bought a couple of them.)
 
UAgrad93 said:
@It Takes Eleven @Rolltide24 you two laugh but I’m dead serious! Some days, it’s uneventful, then other times, we’re cleaning up paint spills, and fighting off bleach and fertilizer fumes.
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I hear you 93, I can’t imagine what those trucks look like when you swing the doors open. Back in the mid-90’s when I loaded/unloaded trucks for American Promotional Events, we only ever unloaded containers that had been packed by Chinese. I swear they had AI back then. They would find a way to pack each one perfectly without one cm of space between boxes and walls. We joked their loaders were world champion Tetris players. So we were lucky not having to deal with that stuff you mention.
 
Rolltide24 said:
I hear you 93, I can’t imagine what those trucks look like when you swing the doors open. Back in the mid-90’s when I loaded/unloaded trucks for American Promotional Events, we only ever unloaded containers that had been packed by Chinese. I swear they had AI back then. They would find a way to pack each one perfectly without one cm of space between boxes and walls. We joked their loaders were world champion Tetris players. So we were lucky not having to deal with that stuff you mention.
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Unloaded UPS trucks for a while, I hated that job.
 
Krimson said:
Unloaded UPS trucks for a while, I hated that job.
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Back in the late 80's I knew a few guys that worked six hours a night, five days a week, at Fed Ex in Memphis. They HATED their jobs but LOVED their paychecks. They were making more back then than the folks who start at Amazon do today...and here locally, that's at $20 an hour.
 
TerryP said:
Back in the late 80's I knew a few guys that worked six hours a night, five days a week, at Fed Ex in Memphis. They HATED their jobs but LOVED their paychecks. They were making more back then than the folks who start at Amazon do today...and here locally, that's at $20 an hour.
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The pay wasn't bad but had to be at work at 4:30 I think then unload at least 1 semi trailer by myself and do it fast enough to keep the sorters busy. They told me I could move up to sorters after a couple of months but when they hired someone they put him out there. I said something to the manager and he told me I was doing such a good job they didn't want to move me so I told him I'd fix that problem for him. He moved me to sorting the next day, after about 30 min it was back to the truck, just until the new guy could get good enough to do it by himself. I stayed in the truck until I found another job.
 
Krimson said:
The pay wasn't bad but had to be at work at 4:30 I think then unload at least 1 semi trailer by myself and do it fast enough to keep the sorters busy. They told me I could move up to sorters after a couple of months but when they hired someone they put him out there. I said something to the manager and he told me I was doing such a good job they didn't want to move me so I told him I'd fix that problem for him. He moved me to sorting the next day, after about 30 min it was back to the truck, just until the new guy could get good enough to do it by himself. I stayed in the truck until I found another job.
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They worked a 10/10:30PM shit until 3-4 depending on the volume. That place/hub was crazy back then.

Reminds me of someone else. He retired from Piggly Wiggly a few years ago. He was a "puller" at their distribution center fifty or so miles from here. They were paid by volume. Essentially, he loaded grocery store trucks. All I know about his pay is his wife was the MGR for La-z-Boy place here in town and he made three times the money she did (according to her.)
 

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