Life lessons from those who have lived it.
The group, The Old Fellas Coffee Club, offers advice (admittedly bad advice) and no topic is off limits.
“Some people may come by and say ‘should I get another wife’,” Gene Menning said. “[And I say] to go with the one you already have?”
The oldest, at 92, is Kindler. He says his qualifications for offering advice are limited.
“Not a whole lot,” he said. “[People] defer to my age. They think I’ve accumulated a lot of knowledge.”
To his right sits Menning at 89 years young.
“I won’t hit 90 until next January,” he said before Kinderl chimed in with “If you’re lucky.”
Menning is as honest as old Abe, himself.
“I’ve never told a lie in my life,” he said. “Well, one. Well, there’s two.”
Then there’s Al Boes who says because of his age, he doesn’t belong in the group.
“I’m 72,” he said. “I’m hardly fit for this group.”
They sit, they wait and when asked, they answer.
“What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been able to give today,” one person asked the group.
“Don’t give out free advice,” Menning responded.
They say the key to good advice is telling it like it is.
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Most all of the guys in my book club are over 60 and the two oldest are both Vietnam vets in their 70’s and the youngest of our group is in his early 40’s. We all hope to keep it going as long as possible because most of us have been friends since the mid 70’s when we were all young and part of the same church. Our group (Tiger Ray’s book and wine club) is named after a fellow book club member who was a history teacher and unfortunately died at 50 from a heart attack 11 yrs. ago a day after we had our meeting at his house. One of the topics that night coincidentally was mortality. We’re going to keep it going as long as possible, we’ve read well over a 100-150 or more books in the past 12 years or so with some very spirited discussions about them. It’s good to have life long friends. My oldest daughter even wants to write a book about us because she knows most of them from growing up around them and their children since we all for the most were part of the same church for 30 + years. But we’re having more fun now than we did at church all those years.
After yesterday morning at the restaurant, tell me how they vote first. Elders can be quite, quite stupid.
How do I join? Am I eligible? I’m a still spry 66.
“The best advice was a young man that come past wanted to know how would he know he would make the right decision about the girl he wants to marry. How will I know this? How will I understand? I told him that she’d let him know,” Kindler said.””
Yup, tradcon, “happy wife, happy life” style, pedestalizing horse$3it. I knew it would be. Very predictable, life ruining ‘advice’.
You won’t see any of us womenfolk at their venue.
Before you can become OLD AND WISE you must first survive being YOUNG AND STUPID! 🙂