bearsandgiants said:

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Never trust a man who wears a bowtie every day.

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lol hey I think I trust Bill Nye.


On a personal note, I want to shout out some respect to my Grandfather, RIP. Perhaps the most honest man I knew. He was a respected by many. He worked so hard to provide for his wife and four daughters. He consistently faced people trying to take advantage of him and he handled it with such grace. He played multiple instruments as well and when I was a kid/teen I would go watch him play with his senior band at various assisted living centers in his area. Everybody knew him, everybody hugged and thanked him and everybody that could, danced to his music.

My grandfather never saw any of these people nor did ever lay eyes on his four daughters. My grandfather was blinded as a child by an illness that is and was completely treatable by medicines that were in short supply during the first World War. He attended the Helen Keller institute for school and learned music there as well. He was a door-to-door salesman and people would rip him off by giving smaller bills than they said they were, you know like a five instead of a 20 and then wait for their change. My grandfather walked neighborhood after neighborhood and also took the bus. He knew the entire city and memorized every bus stop of every line and while on the bus would never ask where he was. He controlled his childhood affliction of diabetes with diet only, not insulin shots. He had tremendous will power.

I never saw him yell at anyone except for one abuser who attacked my aunt while I was visiting. My blind lean diabetic grandfather wrestled this bigger man to the ground and subdued him until the police arrived.

My grandfather dressed for success everyday and walked in the scorching hot San Bernardino sun in California's Inland Empire. My grandfather wore a BOW TIE EVERYDAY and I trusted him more than just about anybody I have ever known. My grandfather was remarkable would have made any bow tie wearer proud, well any non-bow tie wearer too.

Man I miss him.