I love the Beverly Hillbillies! Watched all the time with my dad when I was a kid.
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Yeah, I ran across it one day exploring who wrote and played the song. 
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I am 3 years away from 70. Don’t make me come over there you whippersnapper.
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I was thinking the same thing. (I’m also 3 years away from that number.) 
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I just meant around where I live, most 70 year Olds don’t get into mischief like my dad does. I meant no offense. Yesterday he was on my roof fixing shingles (much to my dismay - I could have done it myself as he taught me how to do it). But the man is so dang stubborn (and I take after him).
Here’s how yesterday went:
Me: if you’re dizzy don’t you dare get on that roof! Let me do it.
Dad: you’re clumsy and you’ll fall off
Me: and you still have dizzy spells from the cochlear.
Dad: climbs ladder to second story
Later on
Dad: don’t you lift that with your back!
Me: don’t tell me what to do. I’m fine. It’s not that heavy and it keeps you from bending over and getting dizzy
Dad: put that down!
Me: no.
We are a pair let me tell you. I feel bad for mom sometimes. 
I don’t think 41 qualifies me as a whippersnapper. 
But I’ll take it!
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Am also into police scanners. Have an antenna mounted about 20’ from the ground. Was in the roof a total of 7 times over the last year making modifications. Every time I would tell my guardian Angel to get ready. If my sons knew they would read me the riot act. Only thing bad happened was I ruined a pair of jeans scooting on the roof. And didn’t do the roof any good either.
Men usually need to prove to themselves they can stil do it even though we pay for it later.
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It only took me three times to learn I couldn’t do it anymore. Fell off the roof once and off an extension ladder twice. Last time I fell off and shattered my left knee so now I limit myself to 6 foot step ladders.
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My dad has been a roofer since he was 18 or 21. Started his own company in his 30’s, and had no employees (other than me answering phones or writing down measurements he’d call off to me when he did estimates or my mom doing the bookkeeping). He retired 5 years ago but has still been doing roofing on the side for friends and family. He helped my cousin tear off and reshingle his house 2 years ago.
He’s only fallen off a roof once to my knowledge and that was before I was a thought. Landed in a rose bush.
I think that mindset of ‘I can keep up with the youngins’ runs in my entire family on both sides.
My dad says “if you don’t use it you lose it so, I’m gonna use it”.
But since the vertigo and dizzy spells, mom and I would prefer he stay off the roof. I called her while dad was up there because I was a nervous wreck cause he doesn’t always say when he’s dizzy.
I told him I owe him a few steak dinners. He seemed to like that idea.
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Whooah! You never said you were married to Dave Grohl!!! Think you could get him to sign some of my guitars? 
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Funny story: for years I’d tell him to let his hair grow out a little (he used to keep it really short). And we went through a bit of a rough patch financially so hair cut budget kinda went by the wayside.
His hair got to be around chin length and someone said he looked like Dave Grohl while we were out running errands and he never cut his hair short again.
The point is: I’ll get my way eventually.
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But my favorite is when my uncle says he looks like Andy Gibb. Which I tease him about every so often so he doesn’t forget.
Oh and he’s also been compared to Buddy Christ (Kevin Smith fans would get that reference).
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And I bet nobody else sits in ‘his spot’
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How deep is his love? (rhetorical) 
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