Pancho Pistolas's Journal: Amazing facts: the unexpected...

What is your most unexpected truth? That is, what fact about you most defies the expectations people would have of you?

dunno

[SolemnDragon]

i listen to danzig

that one stopped blinder from talking for about thirteen seconds

other than that, i have no idea- what were you most surprised to learn about me?

yours was the sight of you minus the beard. You look older without it.

Re:dunno

[nizo]

Wow I hadn't thought of that answer. My music tastes would probably make people laugh. Oh and my background would suprise most people (picture a hovel with a dirt floor, no electricity or running water, in the middle of nowhere and you start to get the idea). Ahh the days of my youth that I so (don't) fondly remember...

Re:dunno

[Pancho Pistolas]

What is danzig? I wanna hear more about anything that leaves Blinder speechless...that could come in handy! :^b

Most surprising thing to learn about you? Hmmm...that's a thinker... there are a few, but they strike me as drifting into personal info outside the realm of your closest friends.

Ironically, I used to look older WITH the beard.

My Wife.

[pythorlh]

This comes in two flavors.

Type one: someone gets to know me, hears me talk about my kids and my wife, hears a conversation or two between us, and then finds out we've been seperated for 6 years and she lives with another guy. Double take. "But you do stuff together all the time?" Yup. Next question?

Or Type two: Someone learns that I'm seperated from my wife, I take my boys two evenings a week and every weekend, and that I pay her child support, and then finds out that we're going to dinner, an amus

Re:My Wife.

[Pancho Pistolas]

Dood...you rock!

People go all kindsa twisted-knickers on what a family is supposed to be (usually as fodder for/against same-sex marriage), when the truth of the matter is that who's actually raising the children (i.e., are they actually RAISING the children?) is the single most important factor. And that's what you and she are doing, being people and decent to each other. What could be better for children than that?

Few and special are the people that do their own thing well regardless of what other peopl

Re:My Wife.

[pythorlh]

Well, it's just in my nature to do what I think is right, regardless of what other people tell me. It is also in my sons' nature, which does make trying to raise them a challenge at times. But challenging authority is a good thing, and I'm proud of them for it.

I admit that I occasionally get a reaction like yours. It's very rare, though. Mostly it comes from those who have been the children in a bad relationship, and had to deal with parents who hated each other. The most violent versions of the react

Re:My Wife.

[Pancho Pistolas]

I was raised by just my ma-- my dad skipped out on me and my brother when I was a wee lad. And my Ma did a bang-up job all by herself. Although much of my childhood I felt like I was missing out on a few things my peers were, it was never a lack of love from home. Your kids are very lucky that you and your wife are still working together, and that fact is not lost on me.

Obviously people get it-- or don't-- with little space in between.

Re:My Wife.

[pythorlh]

My parents are still happily married today, so that's not everything, but it does obviously make a difference. I'm almost ashamed to admit that for myself, it's as much a matter of loving my wife as it is loving my boys. I know that it's important to do this for my boys, but my real reason for doing it is that I love my wife, and don't want to be seperated. My wife does it for the boys' sake, and also because I make her life easier in a lot of ways. So while were both still being selfish, we're also sti