Bad Ass Grandpa

I have nothing new to report, due to my sprained toe. I played too much disc golf this weekend, which was a mistake as you pivot on your right foot when driving, right at the point of pain. D'oh. Anyway, last week I visited my parents, and got talking with my Grandfather. Turns out growing up in Pennsylvania, his Grandfather was too broke/cheap to buy shoes for the kids, so when warm, they were barefoot. All the time. Once in a while they would get cut while playing around the coal mines or railroad tracks. He was also a beast of a football player, which got him a scholarship and out of the coal mines. I asked if he ever had any injuries to his knees or ankles playing sports, and he had not, only one bad cut that put him in the hospital. Of course, in this era, shoes were pretty thin, no thick sneakers with coils or tubes or whatever. I just like the idea of Ed Masel, Marine, football star, coal miner, teacher and barefoot runner.