Whew! 😳 A lot of sadness in this world

I had a close co-worker whose daughter was murdered in their house by her husband while their 2 very young children were upstairs. He had retired and was looking forward to spending time with this wife traveling. They were the only ones to be able to take the kids in and they both had to go back to work. He retired again this year at age 71. Very strong individuals.

Jeez, that’s horrible

y'all got me beat

I worked closely with someone for a few years in the same lab between 1996 and 1999. He was originally from a little town near Lake Fork but moved to Garland, I gave him a ride to work with me a few times, met his wife a few times etc. Well, he starts missing work a lot of mondays and his wife would call work to see if we knew where he was. We could tell it was a substance problem of some sort. Eventually he just walked out of work one day and that was the last I saw him.


Fast forward a few years and take a day off during the week to fish Fork. After fishing I stop in at an eating establishment near Fork. I strike up a conversation with the owner and the owner tells me where he lived in a nearby town. I tell him about this friend of mine from work that used to live in the same town. I tell him my friends name and he says "Oh yeah, I knew him well. Did you work with him Before or After he was in the pen for killing ___ ____?"

Wait, whut? He killed somebody? The owner tells me the story of how this friend of mine owed somebody some money for an 8ball of some dope when he was 17. The dope dealer said he was coming to get his money. This friend of mine said he didnt have it. The dealer guy said he was coming for it anyway and would beat the tar out of him if he didnt have the money. So the story goes that my friend was under his car on a creeper with a 12 gauge hog leg in his hands. The dope dealer grabs my friend by his feet, pulled him from under the car and my friend unloads the 12 gauge right into the dealers chest.

I was flabbergasted. I never knew it.

Those are some wild conversations.

I worked with a couple of guys from California that had been in prison out there. Both were bikers, and both had crazy stories.

Myself, well I did have a customer ask me a weird question during a mundane conversation-
I was working on his front end loader, and he was making small talk while I worked, things like sports, fishing, pickups etc. He then asked what size foot I had, said it looked big. I told him not really, size 9. He talked a little more and asked me if I knew his daughter since we lived 20 miles apart and I replies yes. He then asked if I ever *&c%d her, and I told him he77 no, and if I did, I wouldn't tell you. He just said, why not, its a natural thing. It was about the time Tombstone came out in the theaters, and from then on I referred to him as the Mad Cat, since his first name was Johnny. Weird dude for sure.

Wow!

Well that escalated quickly!

If a man asks you about your foot size, while adding that “it looks big”, the answer to a subsequent “Do you know my daughter?” question is always an emphatic “No”. It’s not “I don’t believe I do” or “I don’t think so”...you don’t ask her name, you don’t ask anything. You just say “No”.

Foot size questions always telegraph daughter questions. Be ready and just say “No”.

Duly noted.

no , I didn't catch a single fish . I was focused on making sure I didn't piss him off . He had asked me to get something from the glove box area , when I opened it up , there was the loaded .357 . Since he was drinkin and smoking some weed --- I just figured I would lay low and stay out of his way . I can honestly say it was the worst day fishing in my life .

This thread has some of the weirdest stories I've ever read on the TFF...goodness people are nuts

Lived in Arizona years ago, a new neighbor moves in next door. I see their little dog is out of the fence So I walk up to the front door with the dog. A young woman opens the door with a boy about 8 years old standing next to her. She Thanks me and says the dog is the boy's therapy dog, and he needed it because he saw his father murdered by her brother the previous year. This was with the boy standing right there. The story gets weirder. She says she is a nurse and starts doing home care for an elderly couple on the other side of me. She is really in their home ALL the time. One night I get a call at 11pm, it is this women she says the wife is not breathing. I was a flight medic at the time, I rush over and start doing CPR, with the woman just standing there. I'm doing CPR for a few minutes and I ask where is the ambulance? She says she only called me and not 911. After the Wife was gone she really messed with the old man, probably took him for everything he was worth. I tried to talk with him about it because we were neighbors for So long and we always had a good relationship. He got mad at me and said she was the best thing, he wouldn't even let his children or grand children come by anymore. It was So sad I was glad when I PCSed to Texas. Been here ever since. The scariest thing is that the Old woman had been complaining about this girl taking advantage of them days before she died. I'm still not sure she didn't put a pillow over that old women's face.

They need some professional help and a lot of prayer!

Back in high school I worked at a grocery store and was friends with one of the butchers. I came in one morning and asked where ??? was as he usually worked that day. I was told he was murdered the day before and the shock at 17 years old was big. He was looking into the person who got his girlfriend hooked on drugs. Fast forward 35 years, I drive the same road home every day and notice a car parked on the side of the road for a few days. Get to work a few days later and find out the lady had committed suicide by pistol. A few years later a lady I sold a shotgun to killed herself in the plant parking lot. I was worried she used the shotgun I sold her, but it was by overdose.
This is a very strange and sad world we live in for sure.