Bear Bait Mountain Tales

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I may be an odd, crusty, curmudgeon-in-training preferring the company of women over men since I am no good at being involved with relationships. Tried marriage twice, four months; and then 2 1/2 years; neither worked right; I just couldn't shake the intensity of obvservation I developed in a raw childhood, one had to "walk on eggs" around my wildcat mean mother. She has been gone for about 10 years but the damage remains.

I live alone in my spacous hermitage palace, all 12 by 70 of it, on the back side of Bear Bait Mountain in the upper right cornor of West Virginia. The neighbor is at least 1/2 mile away, next one is 1 1/4 mile; my only visitor is the meter reader, 6 times a year. So when I feel the need to talk or see other people I must go into town, and that costs money my veterans pension did not take into account. Then I found these forums, an excellent substitute for people contact, low cost, here at my convience, I can add to or ignore any conversation with the usual human trappings, what more could I ask for?

I have never given a speech but here I can talk to two of you or 200,000 with no inpediance, I don't even have to think about you being nekked (!). The two days that this puter could not connect made my life a bit dank, but about an hour ago I got an email that this thing was working again, I sat down, twittled and tweaked and here you are, I checked a couple sites then came here. Answered one in my crusty style and realized something was going on inside me. I felt like the part of the beach where the rip tide occures. For those of you that are not beach experienced; the waves comming in can't keep stacking up water, the extra water has to go somewhere so in an area where it is a bit deeper the top water comes in and the bottom water goes out, known as a rip tide. I was feeling this exchange emotionally, allmost physically. I guess it is a bit like seeing kids accomplish their goals, or feeling their disappointments through them, I don't know, I have never had kids.

Why am I telling you this? I cannot discuss diapers, I have never washed or even changed one. I cannot discuss love or relationships, those are not in my life. Every time I got really clost to anyone they had a car wreck, or OD'ed, or caught cancer. I solved that repeated problem by removing myself from the formula, I am at peace and preffer being alone, there will be more later if you want to hear it.

Now that its been two days I am sure your brains have cooled down from the stumpers I post, so get ready to get whacked with a fresh one tomorrow, remember I have had two days to research new ones......

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), October 25, 2001

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Wow Mitch, I was literaly moved to tears. My whole family was reading your post over my shoulder. We are here for you, we think of you often, and we want you to feel welcome here whenever you want to post!

Keep those stumpers coming, maybe someday I'll actually get one right!!!!

-- Melissa (cmnorris@1st.net), October 25, 2001.


Mitch, you are one of the people I missed most when the forums were down -- even if your stumpers do make my brain twitch! :-)

Glad we're all back together again!

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), October 25, 2001.


The beauty of this medium is that everyone is free to be themselves -- there is no scrambling for seniority or acceptability. Everyone is who they are, and there is always someone to admire that person's qualities. Those that don't move on to other places.

Mitch -- I am saddened to hear that your personal relationships never worked out -- for I feel, based on the stance you take in many of these online discussions, that you would have mada fabulous father.

When the internet first began being a sort of "public meeting place" (I've been around since the days of GOPHER, so I remember the advent of public forums!) I scoffed -- I felt it may take the place of what was left of ever-diminishing human contact in our world. I look back and see that I was wrong. I have had the privilege of knowing many amazing people I would not have had it not been for the public forums here.

Crusty or not, curmudgeon or otherwise, I'm glad you're here.

-- Tracy (trimmer31@hotmail.com), October 25, 2001.


Wow mitch, who sez guys have a hard time showing their feelings . . . I'm sorry you've had such a difficult past with women. It doesn't take a couple (two people) to make a life; you do that yourself.

But relationships often happen when we're not looking for one, get my meaning? I met my wife at her grandmother's funeral, for crying out loud. I wasn't looking for a relationship, it found me. Totally floored me; I hadn't been in a relationship for five or six years; I basically put that part of my life on hold. Changed pretty quick, though.

Please continue with your stumpers. . . we had some lively discussions in the office about them. Have a good day, chief.

-- j.r. guerra (jrguerra@boultinghousesimpson.com), October 26, 2001.


Mitch...what can I say? If your military pension ever allows you to wander down to NE Alabama, you would be welcomed on our porch..we'd even put the Home defender away while we sat and had lemonade or iced tea. Crusty ex-military folks are always welcomed here without reserve. God bless.

-- lesley (martchas@bellsouth.net), October 26, 2001.


I can't wait to get to work every morning to get at your stumpers I even involve some of my coworkers. Keep em coming. I need the brain work. Just remember if you have God you are not alone and you have a whole big family right here at your finger tips.

-- mindy (speciallady@countrylife.net), October 29, 2001.

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