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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OkieJoe72" data-source="post: 3966269" data-attributes="member: 48447">Dad ran a country store (groceries, beer, bait, and BS) for about 40 years. He worked seven days a week for all of those forty years starting around 5:00 AM and quitting around 10:00 PM.  He never missed a day.  He built the store after he got fired as a math teacher for holding a kid out of the window. He is the toughest man that I’ve ever known. The store, Bubba’s, is still in operation, but it is ran more like a convenience store nowadays. We still own the property, but the store is leased to a tenant that runs it. I grew up in that store stocking, sweeping, picking up trash, and pumping gas. Mom was a high school English teacher. She dedicated her life to teaching and also pleading with me to not act like my dad. She received her doctorate in the early 90’s, and she became an assistant superintendent for a vo-tech. She retired from Oklahoma, and she then moved to Arizona where she worked another 20 years as an administrator for a vocational school out there. The day before she passed away, I received a very nice letter written by a former student that she taught at Elgin HS in the early 70’s. The letter told about how much she enjoyed having my mom as a teacher and how my mom affected her life in a positive way. I never got to read the letter to my mom, but we read it at her funeral service.</blockquote>