Lol

Yeah mine had many a story.

He told me one about the dumbest cow they had...
It was a hot summer Texas day. That cow was standing out in the middle of a corn field. It was so hot that the corn started popping and that stupid cow thought it was snowing and stood right there and froze to death

Yep, I loved hearing stories from my Grandpas, even lucky enough to hear some stories from my Great Grandpa.

Great Grandpa tells a story of working for a paint contractor in Wortham as a young man trying to save up enough money to go to college during the Depression. He finally saved up enough and had a friend who said he needed to come up to Lubbock and attend Tx Tech. The owner of the painting company needed a truck delivered to Abilene and assigned him the task of delivering the truck as his last job for the company. He and his friend dropped it off in Abilene and then started hitch-hiking toward Sweetwater, when a train with an open box car came by real slow, they jumped in. They quickly realized they weren't alone. The 4 guys already in the box car started asking a lot of probing questions, apparently trying to figure out if they had any money (they did, enough cash for enrollment and living expenses for the fall semester). They tried to avoid the conversation, and were able to over hear enough of their private conversation to convince my great grandpa that these guys were former members of the "Forty-Two" gang from Chicago trying to get to L.A. "for their health." He said they decided to jump out before the train made it to Sweetwater because he wasn't very good at lying and thought they were about to get relieved of their money.

He wrote a Memoir about 2 years before he passed away. Most of the family has a copy and it's a treasure trove of good stories.