Posted on 07/22/2009 7:42:42 PM PDT by franksolich
Today's discussion about the virtues of electric stoves when compared with the perils of natural gas stoves brought to mind a personage of my early childhood. I only vaguely remember him, having met him when I was an infant, and he having died when I was seven years old, although there exists two old photographs of the gentleman and myself, myself admiring the pigs in the bed of his pick-up truck.
This was in a small town alongside the Platte River of Nebraska, a county famously rich in agriculture and teeming with transport, the most important highway in America, and the most important railway line in America, passing through it.
But both highway and railway were simply thin arterials, little discombobulating life within a few feet away, and all the rest of the county, where life was laid-back, mellow, informal, nonchalant, and small enough that even a deaf child could absorb the world in pieces at a time, without trauma.
His last name was "Shultheis," but somehow in the bibble-babble of a child, he got christened "Old Man Memmerhemmer." Neither I nor anyone else could ever remember how that happened, but there it was. He died at the age of 79 years, and so I first met him when he was either 72 or 73 years old.
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How the heck do they know he was having trouble lighting the stove?
I got one of those old fashioned white enameled stoves that are hard to light. Hasn’t blown up on me yet.
electric stoves are worthless crap. only fools buy them. Or people that can’t get natural gas. Propane is a little spooky...I’ll admit that. It doens’t dissipate like natural gas. It sinks to the lowest place and stays there until someone or some thing lights it off. NO THANKS.
Good story. But I still prefer a gas stove.
I wonder where this story came from. Frank is a great storyteller
Great story.
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