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The Admonisher

The move was successful, thanks to our extremely hard-working friends and family. Unfortunately, somewhere between now and my teenage years (according to my mother) – I’ve turned into a surly, heckling, and curmudgeonly old man. Witness my wife (henceforth know as “The Chief”) and I yesterday:

Sound FX: SCRAAAAPE!
Max: Don’t push boxes on the floor with yer feet! PICK THEM UP! We just had the damn floors redone!
The Chief (sarcastically): Yessir!
The Chief: Meanie…
Max: I’m not mean!
The Chief: No, you’re not…
The Chief (gleefully): You just admonish!

Monday September 27, 2004

Shawn
Sep 27, 11:27 AM

# 1

“surly, heckling, and curmudgeonly old man.”

Not to mention, straight from the pages of American Grizzly…

:-)

max
Sep 27, 11:52 AM

# 2

Oh, I’d need to pack on some more weight before American Grizzly would let me grace its pages.

ben
Sep 27, 05:42 PM

# 3

I’ll vouch for his curmudgeon-ness. We had pizza over at the house, and I got served for trying to slide my chair out [without sitting in it] so I switched to ninja turtle stylee, and picked it up on my back and carried it.

Max, testify.

Tim Lenon
Sep 27, 05:51 PM

# 4

Sorry I missed the pizza on saturday. As far as you just turning into a surly, heckling, and curmudgeonly old man…

I really need to video tape you when you pass the 4 Gin and Tonic mark. Old man surly has been around for some time now, you just have never met him.

lol
Tim

kartooner
Sep 28, 07:49 AM

# 5

Old man surly? Yeah, that’s what my wife calls me every so often. I guess it’s attributed to the fact that my tolerance level when it comes to patience is slim to none.

Shawn
Sep 28, 09:17 AM

# 6

We need to start an official Roast Max website.

max
Sep 28, 01:22 PM

# 7

At the risk of sounding more surly… you’re all bastards. Except for Kartooner, who apparently is my surly internet brother.

kartooner
Sep 28, 01:55 PM

# 8

We stand alone. :)

Shawn
Sep 28, 02:38 PM

# 9

Easy there hold man. Bastard I may be, but surly, heckling, and curmudgeonly are ye.

I don’t know Kartooner, but any fellow traveler who enjoys Bishop, CA is okay in my book.

max
Sep 29, 07:26 AM

# 10

This sucks… my fellow curmudgeon gets a pass, while I still get crap.

I’m feeling a little like Dangerfield here… :)

ben
Sep 30, 10:07 AM

# 11

Tell you what Max, I won’t give you a pass, but I will buy you a Jameson to feed your inner Curmudgeon. At least that way, he’s Irish and not from the American South [wink].

max
Sep 30, 12:28 PM

# 12

You’re too late. I found some Knob Creek last night on sale.

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