Don't Let the Old Man In

[RPK0620]

True Story: 

     Toby Keith was playing golf with Clint Eastwood.  
    At one point, Eastwood said to Keith, “I turn 88 on Monday.”
    “What are you going to do?” Keith asked.
    “I’m going to shoot a movie,” Eastwood replied, with filming scheduled to begin the following week.
    “What keeps you going?” Keith asked him.
    “I get up every day and don't let the old man in,” Eastwood said.
    “I’m writing this down right now,” Keith replied.
    Keith didn't ask him if he could contribute a song, Keith just went home and wrote it, sent it to Clint and hoped that he would consider it. He did.

    Here it is: 

https://youtu.be/yc5AWImplfE

 

[Stewey]

Pretty cool, clint Eastwood has always been the man 

[Live to Hunt]

Yea I always liked him too.

[rocky]

Great song and actor. 

I try hard not to let the old man in myself  but, I beat up my body when I was younger.  The knocking at the door gets louder and louder every year. 

[RPK0620]

21 minutes ago, rocky said:

Great song and actor. 

I try hard not to let the old man in myself  but, I beat up my body when I was younger.  The knocking at the door gets louder and louder every year. 

The knocking does get louder and if doing what you did last season is a bit harder and takes longer be thankful that you are out doing it. There are a lot who are no longer able.

 

 

[Buck154]

The Man is old but not dead. Great actor and movie director. 

[BEAR]

2 hours ago, RPK0620 said:

The knocking does get louder and if doing what you did last season is a bit harder and takes longer be thankful that you are out doing it. There are a lot who are no longer able.

 

I agree!!! Be thankful you are still doing it.   I 'm grateful at 64 still going strong ,but I feel like a whimp ,when I'm out with my friend Arnold  who still going strong at 91 and my brother who has stage four cancer Lungs and colon still out with me all the time..  Neither one letting the OLD man in

[YurytheRed]

5 hours ago, rocky said:

Great song and actor. 

I try hard not to let the old man in myself  but, I beat up my body when I was younger.  The knocking at the door gets louder and louder every year. 

Thankfully as I get older my hearing will likely get worse so with any luck I won't hear the SOB...

[Wallew]

A lot could be learned by younger generations.  Respect your elders and they just don’t make them like that anymore. 

I’m a spring chicken at 41 compared to Clint. I feel privileged to have truly known men from his generation and my fathers generation that followed.

They had true grit. Many lessons to be learned from them.

Much of that is lost on younger generations. “Lazy sumbiches” that enjoy the privilege without understanding what it took to give them their privilege.

I never served but I salute those that did and set an example for us to follow.

[Bowhunter2004]

Tomorrows  will be  my 54th birthday, the old man showed up with a birthday cake a few years ago and I let him in. Big mistake, now  I can’t get rid of him. 

[Gunsmoke]

20 minutes ago, Bowhunter2004 said:

Tomorrows  will be  my 54th birthday, the old man showed up with a birthday cake a few years ago and I let him in. Big mistake, now  I can’t get rid of him.  

 

Nothing a 30 year old can't cure.  

[Nomad]

Old man not outside. 

Old man inside. 

No let him out.

Edited February 26, 2019 by Nomad

[Tarhunt]

17 hours ago, Bowhunter2004 said:

Tomorrows  will be  my 54th birthday, the old man showed up with a birthday cake a few years ago and I let him in. Big mistake, now  I can’t get rid of him. 

I turned 54 last December and I remember telling my family that I wasn't worried hitting 50. I was worried 50 hitting back and I was right. 

[Rusty]

On 2/25/2019 at 9:53 AM, rocky said:

Great song and actor. 

[06roadking]

At 55 I’m in awe of the generation before me. I work with my dad, just him and I, daily. He gets on my nerves sometimes I could walk out but, I never let on because the first day he’s not there I will be heartbroken. We have a small auto repair shop that he bought with 100% borrowed money in 1963. I was 6 months old. He dug out a picture the other day of him carrying me in front of the shop about a week after he bought the place. I joke with him that it was both of ours first day of work and he was giving me a ride to work that day. Behind us was his new sign on the front of the shop. His hours were 7:30-7pm mon thru fri. 7:30am til 6pm on Saturdays. 9- 4 on sundays. By himself. Every day. I asked him how did he stand it. He said he had a bunch of people to pay back and the sooner the better. He paid everyone back the first year and paid his mortgage back 2 years later. This was for a three bay shop, a tow truck and a house. I can remember my mom packing towels under the livingroom windows so the snow didn’t blow in but, the man made his way in the world by himself. We used to sell gas and at 8 years old I worked after school and full time in the summer pumping gas. I learned to make change very young. My dad will be 80 next month and still comes in every day. He doesn’t do what he used to do but, sure as hell does what he can. I heard a customer ask him one day why doesn’t he retire and take it easy. His reply was “The best way to keep walking is to keep walking”. I live by those words. I’ve worked there full time since the day after graduating high school. I’ve had 19 joint operations for arthritis and injuries and have missed 19 weeks of work since 1981. People ask me why I don’t go on disability and those words my dad said immediately come to mind. I keep walking. The generations before us don’t just deserve respect, they have earned it. Sadly there will never be men or women like them again. Sorry for the long winded comment but, I feel it helps hammer Clint’s point home. Don’t let the old man or, old woman in...ever.

Edited February 27, 2019 by 06roadking