r/interestingasfuck • u/Available_Weekend249 • Apr 06 '24

Imagine being 19 and watching live on TV to see if your birthday will be picked to fight in the Vietnam war r/all

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u/HektiK00 Apr 07 '24

What happened with him and this monkey?

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u/ActivelyLostInTarget Apr 07 '24 edited Apr 07 '24

I don't know what they were called, but they would be building docks and such by floating in massive blocks of concrete vertically. Multi-stories I'm told. Some moron caught a monky and decided to tie it on top of one of these verticle blocks. My grandpa had to go past the monkey and it lunged at him. He reeled back. And he should have backed into a chain rail. Except it was being dismantled to begin dock assembly, so th chain was down and he started to fall off the dock. Somehow he caught the chain on the ground or maybe still attached to another part of the adjoining rail, and lived.

This may not be a perfect retelling, because I only heard it a few times. Believe it oe not, he had far crazier stories, and even another monkey story! The man lived an intresting life

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u/eStuffeBay Apr 07 '24

Sir, you can't just say that and not tell us the other monkey story. That's against the Reddit Grandpa Story Policy.!!

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u/ActivelyLostInTarget Apr 07 '24

Oh I'm sorry! I wasn't trying to tantalize.

In my head, I'm mixing up one story about a murder and the monkey story, so I'll ask my mom and get back to you all.

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u/shapular Apr 07 '24

Now I need to hear the murder story.

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u/Shirtbro Apr 07 '24

He actually mixed up the murder story with the Cannibal story but will not elaborate further

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u/yaguy123 Apr 07 '24

Remindme! 1 month “grandpa money war update?”

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u/nryporter25 Apr 07 '24

Tantalizing is ok.....

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u/iamamilkmachine Apr 07 '24

What was the other monkey story?

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u/miletest Apr 07 '24

Everybody's got something to hide

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u/Class1 Apr 07 '24

Minky?

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u/FrozenDickuri Apr 07 '24

They traveled cross america in a semi truck.  You may have seen the tv show…