Met a Fabo Member Again Yesterday
Dang. Web tattoo with the spider on the elbow... one eye willy i bet you got a story worth listening to...
It never fails to amaze me who the good folks here are.
You want to know that one? Ok. Here it is. I met 70-71DartGtReg (Bruce) (RIP) on here several years ago. SUPER cool guy, only lived about 65 miles one way away from me, in Fort Valley, Georgia. We met on here and hit it off over our love of slant sixes. At that time, we had a live chat room and several of us, including Bruce and myself chatted there regularly. We became good friends and talked on the phone a bit. I drove down to meet him and see all his cool collection of stuff....parts and cars. At the time, he was sick. Had some kind of sorness in his neck and throat. Just a cold he thought he couldn't kick.
Turns out it was stage IV throat and lung cancer. Now Bruce had no family........none that was good for much. I'll just stop right there with "THAT". So, I took him to his chemo and his doctor appointments. 65 miles. One way.
So, he was getting pretty bad. We "knew" where this was gonna end up without ever talkin about it directly. One day, while he was having a rare good day, he called me up and said "hay man, all my hair has finally fallen out. I've always wanted a tattoo of a spider web on my head with a big black widow in it. I'm going to see my friend who's a tattoo artist, will you go with me and get one too, I'm buyin?" I said "hell yeah, let's do it!" Because you know........well.......you know.
So the next week, Bruce took a bad turn and passed away. It was a really sad thing. So I told Kitty that she knew I had to get that tattoo. We agreed though to go for the elbow, rather than shaving my head. lol. I put Bruce's date of birth and death in the web as a tribute.
And there's the story.
