The hardest welding job I ever did.

[DABSGT]

I have a good friend that I work with, his attitude is "nothing is that bad that it couldn't be worse". I guess your experience that day prove the point. Paul thanks for sharing, your kindness will one day be rewarded. We all find ourselves caught up in our ever day situations when a small act of kindness as this changes our outlook. A small thing to most but a big thing for him.

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[4shorts]

I have a good friend that I work with, his attitude is "nothing is that bad that it couldn't be worse". I guess your experience that day prove the point. Paul thanks for sharing, your kindness will one day be rewarded. We all find ourselves caught up in our ever day situations when a small act of kindness as this changes our outlook. A small thing to most but a big thing for him.

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Your friend is wise. I'm tired of seeing people turning a blind eye to other people's problems. Sometimes just spending a few minutes with someone will make all the difference in the world to them. We all need to stop, think and consider what the other guy is going through and act accordingly.
Thanks for commenting.

 

[skylarkguy]

As a newbie to welding it tend to lurk on this subject more than post. The story of your experience woke me up before dawn today thinking about it. It must be very hard to be that fellow faced with inevitable and impending death to go about his day. Most times those conditions mainly elicit pity and perhaps fear. You did the guy a service by just focusing on the task at hand. Perhaps brought him good memories as he watched you put down a good bead. I also start thinking about the conversations i would like to have with my dad who is in his mid 70's before too long.

On a much much lighter note. Is that boat in the post a Munson Landing craft?...sweet ride regardless!

 

[skylarkguy]

As a newbie to welding it tend to lurk on this subject more than post. The story of your experience woke me up before dawn today thinking about it. It must be very hard to be that fellow faced with inevitable and impending death to go about his day. Most times those conditions mainly elicit pity and perhaps fear. You did the guy a service by just focusing on the task at hand. Perhaps brought him good memories as he watched you put down a good bead. I also start thinking about the conversations i would like to have with my dad who is in his mid 70's before too long.

On a much much lighter note. Is that boat in the post a Munson Landing craft?...sweet ride regardless!

 

[mbrule]

Thanks for posting, kind of choked me up a bit....

Reminded me of one of the most important things my maternal Grandmother ever said, I don't remember the exact words, but the gist was, no matter how bad you think you have it here is always someone worse off.

She said this laying in Hospice days before her 92nd birthday, after a couple of strokes, lots of Cancer with open sores, outliving two of her children and having had a hard life! She lived just long enough to see 92, and was a truly wonderful woman.

Thanks for posting

 

[4shorts]

As a newbie to welding it tend to lurk on this subject more than post. The story of your experience woke me up before dawn today thinking about it. It must be very hard to be that fellow faced with inevitable and impending death to go about his day. Most times those conditions mainly elicit pity and perhaps fear. You did the guy a service by just focusing on the task at hand. Perhaps brought him good memories as he watched you put down a good bead. I also start thinking about the conversations i would like to have with my dad who is in his mid 70's before too long.

On a much much lighter note. Is that boat in the post a Munson Landing craft?...sweet ride regardless!

I'm happy to hear you got something out of my experience. I'll be honest and say I did pity the poor guy but more than pity I felt I had to help him complete his mission. After it was done and he had left is when it really hit me. I momentarily fell to pieces. My wife got the biggest shock because the guy was only gone for five minutes when she returned and seen me in the state I was in.
Sit down with your dad, spend as much time as you can with him because when he's gone you'll have no regrets. The boat sure looks like a landing craft. It's used for oil environmental cleanup.

Thanks for posting, kind of choked me up a bit....

Reminded me of one of the most important things my maternal Grandmother ever said, I don't remember the exact words, but the gist was, no matter how bad you think you have it here is always someone worse off.

She said this laying in Hospice days before her 92nd birthday, after a couple of strokes, lots of Cancer with open sores, outliving two of her children and having had a hard life! She lived just long enough to see 92, and was a truly wonderful woman.

Thanks for posting

Your Grandmother sounded like a great woman and thank you for sharing your story. I pondered about posting this but after reading everyone's comments I'm glad I did. I hope it makes all of us realize just how fragile life is and that things can go south in a split second. If there's someone really important in your life be sure to tell them how you feel before you run out of time to do so.
Thank you for posting.

 

[ericdube]

That was a very moving story. I can't even imagine how you must have felt when he told you his story, and I'm sure it was a very humbling experience for you.

I'm just really glad to hear that you were at least able to help him out despite his terrible situation. Thanks for sharing, and it's a great reminder of how fragile life can be.

 

[4shorts]

That was a very moving story. I can't even imagine how you must have felt when he told you his story, and I'm sure it was a very humbling experience for you.

I'm just really glad to hear that you were at least able to help him out despite his terrible situation. Thanks for sharing, and it's a great reminder of how fragile life can be.

Thanks Eric. I hope I never experience anything like that again. This one shook me to the core. Even my wife says it's changed me but to the good. I tend not to complain about the small stuff so much these days. Even if we live to be of an older age life is still to short.

On a lighter note. A bunch of us were in the shop the other day talking about dying and being buried. The conversation then went to what we would want on our headstones.
I started to think as the conversation went on then someone asked me what I'd have on my headstone. I told them that I've always enjoyed working on and playing pinball games so on my headstone I'd like it to say "Tilt, Game Over" :laughing:

 

[sixdogs]

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...went on then someone asked me what I'd have on my headstone. I told them that I've always enjoyed working on and playing pinball games so on my headstone I'd like it to say "Tilt, Game Over" :laughing:

I would like mine to say "Boy was he old" and underneath "Healthy too"

 

[4shorts]

I would like mine to say "Boy was he old" and underneath "Healthy too"

:laughing: Good one.

My other headstone choice was " I told you I was sick" :laughing: