i don't mean 1-5mil
i mean FUCK YOU wealth
remember the pedal cars we played in, as kids? know they started makin copies, recently? made in... not u.s.a...
dood has 70 some. he wasn't flashing $... he got the hint... my eyes get LSD big/dialed, when shiny shinys, came up... 5-7 of which- never been ridden, originals.
he finds n refurbs em... including a john deer, tractor and trailer. i remember buyin the kid one for bout a hundy and the trailer... came later, or they didn't have it, in stock, when i was at the toysarus (say it like a dino)... and the kid's, was plastic. not only does fred have more than one of the set... his- r ORIGINAL, STEEL!!! says they're fairly light. no shit? found one, for $25...
i asked what the tractor goes for, redone- $500... or might have said 25. i forget which, but I'd have guessed 10k, plus... i mean, it was the first one I'd seen, made of steel, like the rest of the cars.
car aficionados- he has 2 Hudson's, parked at his Maine, property. the other cars... the list of cars n harleys, wasn't short and u go earlier than 60s, I'm clueless. his list, while I'd asked his favs (23 window, vw bus- i didn't even know they made a 23)... was too lengthy and i was struggling to remember anything i could that he was sayin... bout EVERYTHING!!!
i mean- pffft... the guy sat with Stephen king and all he could tell me was- they talked about sports... hockey, i wanna say n mr king is extremely supportive/charitable, towards his interests (reputed, "locally")... and that mr king, really didn't do much else, for ffffufufunnn!!!! no way! it's not for me to say what kinda establishment, they DRANK TOGETHER IN!!! how cool, is that.
he didn't meet any Hollywood names, while serving. i was actually, surprised to hear that.
he would fly into Cambodia, nam, laos... and pick up, drop off (c130?), grab wreckage, black boxes... (weren't supposed to b there) and bodies. he has nightmares... ptsd... i HAD to steer the convo... back home. last thing i wanna do, is make our children relive, real life, horror. apparently 2-4 lines of his dd214, are entirely, xxxxxXXXXXXX'd out. i hope he's not another, we completely, abandoned... it's an echoing sound, i hear from our heroes. they dropped em off, in san Diego, for de-whatchamacallit-briefing and in a few weeks of 4hr days..., "ok... have a nice life"... minimal cash... medical options so bad, if they didn't subsidize- they're drivin hundreds of miles, for "better medical peeps n services"... and pizza hut, delivers; go figure.