My father busted up my air rifle when (Reply #3)

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Fri Nov 25, 2022, 09:02 AM

Goonch (2,656 posts)

3. My father busted up my air rifle when

the kid who lived across the street shot up a neighbor's window with his rifle. I earned my rifle as a prize for signing up new customers on my paper route.

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36 replies	Author	Time	Post
These were the comic books my father made me throw out in 1969 [View all]	no_hypocrisy	Nov 25	OP
Smart move. Must be worth something today	Joinfortmill	Nov 25	#1
Your father sounds like a dick	CommonHumanity	Nov 25	#2
My father busted up my air rifle when	Goonch	Nov 25	#3
My dad lost his EC comic collection	exboyfil	Nov 25	#4
I credit comic books with getting me to read.	OAITW r.2.0	Nov 25	#5
Me too	exboyfil	Nov 25	#18
I wasn't a big comic book guy - I did read Mad sometimes.	PatrickforB	Nov 25	#21
Public school was just there to crush you	exboyfil	Nov 25	#23
Yeah, I sure didn't learn my history from public school, that's for sure.	PatrickforB	Nov 25	#29
And my mom . .	RobertDevereaux	Nov 25	#6
Such iconic covers	exboyfil	Nov 25	#20
That would be amazing.	RobertDevereaux	Nov 25	#34
I came home one day to find my collection had been donated to	rurallib	Nov 25	#7
My husband's mother did the same with his comic book & baseball card collection.	CrispyQ	Nov 25	#8
Just after enlisting in Navy	Submariner	Nov 25	#9
Ouch!!!	secondwind	Nov 25	#25
I had Number Ones and complete original runs of Fantastic Four, X-Men, Daredevil, Avengers,	Midnight Writer	Nov 25	#10
My mom made me give away the big box of 1930's SciFi pulp magazines	Otto_Harper	Nov 25	#11
There were congressional hearings about the dangers of horror comic books.The damage done	3Hotdogs	Nov 25	#12
hiwhodi	AllaN01Bear	Nov 25	#31
Mom could have retired in luxury if she had not tossed dads awesome baseball card collection.	Ziggysmom	Nov 25	#13
I just picked up my collection from my parents	hurple	Nov 25	#14
My CCR 'Down on the Corner' album got smashed because...	czarjak	Nov 25	#15
Another thing:	no_hypocrisy	Nov 25	#16
Comic books were part of growing up in the 50s and 60s.	Squaredeal	Nov 25	#17
When I see what some old comic books are worth today, I stare in disbelief.	DFW	Nov 25	#19
Too cool!	Duppers	Nov 25	#35
Memory Lane	DFW	Nov 25	#36
My mom didn't throw mine away.	Susan Calvin	Nov 25	#22
It would have been bad enough if my father thrown	no_hypocrisy	Nov 25	#24
This message was self-deleted by its author	Atticus	Nov 25	#26
I never owned any comics of any real monetary worth	Orrex	Nov 25	#27
A kid I played ball with had an uncle who actually subscribed him to "Superman" comics	Atticus	Nov 25	#28
My grandmother threw out my father's Captain Marvel collection	localroger	Nov 25	#30
I used to have a T-shirt that said ...	Jeebo	Nov 25	#32
My folks took away my Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Album.	JudyM	Nov 25	#33

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