Awesome story like @Goats_Hogs just said a little leakage out of the eyes on that one. That’s was a great way to honor your father!
New member, going to be asking a LOT of questions! Ghost sent me...
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Welcome to the forum - and thanks for sharing the incredible story, it really hit home
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Welcome to the forum @studiopeg!
You’re going to fit right in here.
After reading the story about your mother & father, I started cutting onions - pretty sure it was the onions that made me cry...
BEAUTIFUL story, thanks for sharing. Your father was a member of “The Greatest Generation” & obviously raised his daughter well.Oh, BTW, I have free candy...
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Display MoreWelcome to the forum @studiopeg!
You’re going to fit right in here.
After reading the story about your mother & father, I started cutting onions - pretty sure it was the onions that made me cry...
BEAUTIFUL story, thanks for sharing. Your father was a member of “The Greatest Generation” & obviously raised his daughter well.Oh, BTW, I have free candy...
lol, I almost chose that pic, lol
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Beautiful and touching story
Thank you for sharing
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Ahhh, that one will give me nightmares tonight...You guys are too funny! I already love it here.
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Welcome to the forum @studiopeg and to the
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Slinglow: "Please share the story of your father with the crew. Very cool."
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@studiopeg, welcome to the forum. Nice way to start...making a bunch of grouchy old men cry!
Oh, and me too, I guess...I'll cop to the "grouchy," but I don't lump myself in with the old fogies yet.I would have liked to meet your dad. He sounds like a neat old codger. Makes me miss mine - ain't cancer a bitch?
Good luck and have fun making that machine your own. Drive it hard - it was meant to be pushed.
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Hello studiopeg and welcome. I know we met and briefly chatted on the other side but I tend to spend most of my time here as I'm sure your quickly seeing why. Glad to see you've found your slingshot. Im excited for you and anxious to see pictures. Sounds like the research and questions have already paid off.
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Display MoreWhat an awesome story of your dad @studiopeg! Thank you for sharing! Danged eyes are leaking a bit, these allergies.... I tell ya!
Your story hit home. My dad had Parkinson's and it got pretty rough the last 5-7 years of his life. He passed in 2011. It took me the most of 2 summers to get his house (the one he built and mom still lived in) back up into really good shape. While I had tended to the things that he said he needed in those last few years, he always told me the house was in good shape. I didn't look closely, but I should have. Mom started failing shortly after we got the house into great shape again. She went on a roller coaster ride that slowly descended over the course of 3 years. She passed on May 1st, 2016.
My wife and I went for a ride on the Harleys about 2 weeks after her funeral. I commented to her that I almost felt guilty for being out on the bike, and enjoying some time with her after looking after my parents for so long. It just seemed.... odd.... even selfish of me. I told her that we needed to learn to have fun again. She knew I'd been researching the Slingshots since before they came out. She said to me, "Do you want to go look at the Slingshots at the dealer?" We went the following weekend, and we brought ours home May 22, 2016. 26,000 miles later, I can promise you it was the right thing for us.
Thanks again for sharing!
>>I told her that we needed to learn to have fun again.
Yep that's it. I had forgotten too. It's only been 6 weeks since dad passed and it took me 3 full weeks just to learn to sit down and relax after coming home from work. The first 3 weeks I could not sit - always that feeling of do-do-do, go-go-go, a robotic kind of thing a caretaker becomes.
I went up to the gun range and shot for an afternoon 2 weeks after he passed. I felt guilty for having fun. Like you said, it felt weird. But it's just that I haven't been able to do anything for myself for so long that it was a foreign feeling. You know that feeling. But I know dad is smiling down on me, and will be riding shot gun in the slingshot
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OMG! She’s into guns too!
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OMG! She’s into guns too!
Girls, Guns & Slingshots.....keep your head down low.
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OMG! She’s into guns too!
Dad taught me well
Home made go cart at 6, big wave riding at Jones Beach in NY at 8, roller coasters at 10, tools at 12, repairs in my teens. Miss you dad! -
OMG! She’s into guns too!
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Dad taught me well
Home made go cart at 6, big wave riding at Jones Beach in NY at 8, roller coasters at 10, tools at 12, repairs in my teens. Miss you dad!What part of Long Island are you from?
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What part of Long Island are you from?I lived in Bellmore / Massapequa and Ronkonkoma before moving to Virgina
What part of Long Island are you from?I lived in Bellmore / Massapequa and Ronkonkoma before moving to Virgina
hey! Long giland... Huntington Station. My aunt lived in Bellmore! It’s a small world!
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hey! Long giland... Huntington Station. My aunt lived in Bellmore! It’s a small world
There at a few of us on here from LI
Are you still there or have you relocated to someplace more afordable
