"Don't Let The Truth Stand In The Way Of A Good Story" was Grandpa Wuehler's motto. But he never had to stretch the truth too much. His life lived that way. A few examples:
1. As a teenager at home on the farm he raced the champion corn picker from the Oklahoma State fair...was not careful and cut a gash in his foot...blood pouring out...ripped his shirt...stuffed it in his shoe and kept picking...beating the champ.
2. Put an pick in his foot while picking away at a dirt wall.
3. Put an ax in his foot while chopping wood (grandpa had foot issues).
4. Drove 500 miles with three fancy, special pigs in the back of a small pickup without a spare tire and no sleep (had to get those porkers home).
5. Drove his old pickup '(38 Chev) with a big load of fruit picking boxes on the back and a hole in his rear tire the size of a silver dollar showing the tube through. (The old days when tires had inner tubes.)
6. Shunned fixing the electric starter motor on his tractor, preferring to crank start the beast.
7. Had a whole compliment of farm implements in the 1/3 acre back yard of his house in Modesto, CA,
8. Had so much electricity in his body the only wrist watch which would keep proper time was a cheap Timex.
9. Grabbed a hold of a spark plug wire to determine if it was misfiring (doing the same thing knocked me onto the ground).
Grandpa Wuehler was a real man...not like us today, who wince and cry at the first stumbling block. What is your MAN QUOTIENT brother?