Deja Vous Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Did you ever think you would be grown up and still playing cowboy?? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denver Don Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 hummm i'm still waitin ta grow up ... of corse my wife is too .... lol :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I actually wanted to grow up and be either a cowboy or architect! Well... I can at least pretend to be a cowboy...! Hey, Deja - you won the Cowboy Karma drawing~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presidio Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Already been a cowboy muh whole life.......just ain't bothered with growin' up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Wanted to be a doctor. Now I'm just a Doctor of Philosophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy Emily SASS #73673 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I wanted to be a mommy and Laura Ingalls Wilder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 The safe bet was that I wouldn't survive growing up. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama Red Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I always wanted to be an archaeologist. Life kept getting in the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I always wanted to be an archaeologist. Life kept getting in the way. Me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tascosa, SASS# 24838 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I wanted to be a cowboy... and I did it!! But I found it was more fun chasin' crooks than chasin' cows! So I cowboy'd part time... It's a great life! Tascosa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oklahomabound Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I always knew what I wanted to be and attained that... ...regarding being a cowboy - isn't it a way of life, a choice that one makes somewhere along the line? If so, I'm way beyond that point now, and I'm just glad I remember to show up when it happens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pit Bull Tex Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I just wanted to live.Would not have made if Cathy had not come along.Long nasty story.I have not grown up yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Getting OLD is mandatory , growing up is OPTIONAL CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I never intended to grow up. So far I've succeeded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubborn Dutchman, SASS # 61363 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Nope, ... I wanted to be a cop. But I didn't make it through the four year window of opportunity due to government minority quota hiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 When I became a young lad of say fifteen or so, I decided that I wanted to be a gigolo. As I endeavored to follow my calling, I found that I did not have the equipment to be competitive in the field. I also lacked the appropriate experience and education to make the grade. I guess I found out about Spanish Bit Bobb and his ENZYTE too late in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang, SASS #53480 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I can recall when very young laying in bed in night and being in mental turmoil . . . . . . for I could not decide . . . . . did I want to be a pirate or a cowboy ? ... and I could not make up my mind which I wanted to be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I wanted to be a truck driver, football player, professional golfer, actor, preacher, Navy Seal, singer, Air Force pilot, policeman......but ended up where I am at ~ and love it Playin' cowboy - shootin' real 'irons' - meetin' great folks.....yup, I'm diggin' it for sure. GG ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Grow up? Not me. About the only thing I can think of that I wanted to be was a veterinarian. Some one once used that to try to encourage me to study harder by saying "oh, you'll need lots of math for that." Being young, stupid, foolish, etc at the time, it had the opposite effect of effectively killing my dream of being a vet. Grizz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 "Life has a way of making the foreseeable that which never happens... and the unforeseeable that which your life becomes." - Everett Hitch Still waiting to see how this turns out. My first real calling was race car mechanic; wanted to quit college to go to mechanic's school in Dearborn. Dad talked me out of that one, arguing that I could always go back to it, but if I quit college, I might never finish. Of course, once you get through school (and get married in the process), it's hard to drop back and take a lower paying (but maybe more satisfying) path. I'm still more interested in the pits than the track. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneaky Gun Runner SASS 79775 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I wanted to be older. Now? Not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickahominy Charlie Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I wanted to be a professional baseball player. As a kid, I lived a breathed baseball....and I still am addicted (I watch waaaaaaay too much baseball on TV ). I actually was drafted and offered a contract (a "whole" $12,000 to pay rookie ball ), but I thought that "college thing" my parents were pushin' on me might be a "good idea." So, off to college and the rest is (sort of) history. I love to shoot and the cowboy thing is just icing on the cake for me. I'm also a history buff, so that part of the game intrigues me as well. And there's the people....... Chick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelve mile REB Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I dont know that I ever thought about it until I was quite a bit older. The military attrached me eary on but I didn't deal well with authority and a collection of Purple Hearts turned me in a different direction. I guess I really loved the edge, the edge of anything and so I tried a lot of different things but never really found my groove. Shooting, my wife of 42 years and the job that paid the bills seem to be the only constants in my life and I guess at least legaly I'm about grown up. I know what others thought I would grow up to be. In high school it was thought that I would end up on Death Row or at the very least in the Oregon State prison. In the Marine Crops my future was never bright for promotion but to get my Moma a nice folded flag was a different matter. Later I just heard the wispers about what they thought and acted as though I didn't care. I would have loved to have grown up to have friends that called and laughed but that never happened. You must be a friend to have a friend and I was much too busy to engage in the small talk that is required and so that part of life closed. I never really thought about "What or How of growing older" I just assumed that it would end badly somewhere along the line in a cold dark corner of the planet and I suppose thats just whats going to happen. Except now I'm more of a canidate for a Nursing Home than a long fall and a hard landing. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodine Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Question: "What did you think you would grow up to be?" Answer: "Dead." Bodine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakey Merlot Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Howdy, Wanted to be a Marine since I was 10. Joined at 18, spent 20 years. Job was great, Marines were greater, Marine Corps, like all bureaucracies, had good things and bad things. Been retired now almost as long as I was in. Had a lot of acquiantances but no friends. Merlot (my bride of 34 years) discovered this game in 2005. I started in 2006. Now I have friends and people I can rely on when I might need help. Closest I felt to being part of something since I retired from the Marines. Never played cowboy much when I was younger, but it's fun now. Shakey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Question: "What did you think you would grow up to be?" Answer: "Dead." Bodine Some truth to that, when I was young I never figured I'd make 40, but I blew past that years ago. When I was young I figured I'd grow up to be either retired or very near retirement by the time I was the age I am now....BUT I never did anything to make that happen....so, I'll be the old guy handing out carts at the walmart in the morning, and KMart in the evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I wanted to be John Wayne. I believed in what he said and what he stood for. Bravery is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. If you got a whipping coming, take it like a man. Stand up for what is right, tell it like it is, never lie, Have the courage to stand for what you believe in. It's got me fired from jobs more than once. How was I supposed to know that the real world doesn't work that way? By the time I learned that lesson, it was to late to change and I didn't want to. I may be stupid, I may be broke, but I'll still stand up with grit teeth when I think a principle is involved. Bugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Mark Flint #31954 LIFE Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I thought I would be a grown up! Thankfully I was wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Smokepole #29248L Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I never figured on getting this old. I tried my damnedest to get myself killed in RVN (looking back now) I figured that 19 was gonna be it for me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denver Don Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 I wanted to be John Wayne. I believed in what he said and what he stood for. Bravery is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. If you got a whipping coming, take it like a man. Stand up for what is right, tell it like it is, never lie, Have the courage to stand for what you believe in. It's got me fired from jobs more than once. How was I supposed to know that the real world doesn't work that way? By the time I learned that lesson, it was to late to change and I didn't want to. I may be stupid, I may be broke, but I'll still stand up with grit teeth when I think a principle is involved. Bugs WOW ... OMG even .... Kidding aside that Sounds like me .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 I wanted to be John Wayne. I believed in what he said and what he stood for. Bravery is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. If you got a whipping coming, take it like a man. Stand up for what is right, tell it like it is, never lie, Have the courage to stand for what you believe in. It's got me fired from jobs more than once. How was I supposed to know that the real world doesn't work that way? By the time I learned that lesson, it was to late to change and I didn't want to. I may be stupid, I may be broke, but I'll still stand up with grit teeth when I think a principle is involved. Bugs The world WOULD work like that, Bugs, if enough folks took the same hard stands. The problem is not with folks like you - it's with those who compromise to avoid conflict when the principle calls for firm resistance. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 I was going to be an astronaut but I got too big to fit in a capsule. Probably just as well. Turns out I don't like heights... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Phil DeGrave SASS #55202 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 I never thought I would live long enough to grow up. Still trying to prove that theory. A test I took in high school told me I would be a teacher of mechanical things. Thought that test was a pile o crap. I wanted to be a professional race car driver. Found out I wasn't good enough to be hired by someone, and I was too broke to pay myself to drive. So many years later, here I sit in my classroom, teaching automotive technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Windshadow Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I was going to be an astronaut but I got too big to fit in a capsule. Probably just as well. Turns out I don't like heights... I had the same plan and the same problem (6'3") so I settled for being a pilot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Wanted to be a drummer in a rock-n-roll band. Did it fer 25 years, but just locally. Made a living but never got to the top where I wanted to go. Rye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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