I just wanted to tell ya my story of what happend with my dad when he died

I'll just give ya a lil before story here ..of my relationship with my dad and what he was like .. I'll try and make it short

I never really got along with my dad after my mom died when i was 12 we always butted heads and I did the run away thing and had my daughter when i was 16 .. my dad was the strict stern type that always said listen to me I'll never tell u wrong and didnt like it when ppl did stuff that he didnt approve of .. he let u know about .. boy did he ever I hadnt talked to him for about 7 yrs till he got sick then i spent the next 4 yrs by his side .. takeing him to the doctors and protecting him when he would have (what we thought at the time was siezures) but turned out to b strokes after the autopsy was performed .. I even saved his life one time when i phoned him and alls he did was pick up the phone and not say a word .. i didnt know it but he was haveing a stroke and all he was doin was breathin in the phone.. i got in my car and drove all the way down to his apartment and got in and sure enough there he is with the phone still in his hand and haveing a stroke .. had witnessed this many time .. he had gone to the docs ..but hated them .. was never sick in his life .. this is what i went thru and what he was like

he died March 13, 2001 and I was down in Oregon when i got the call I got my husband to drive all the way up to Vancouver BC .. my car started over heated in seattle but it was ok as long as we kept on the highway .(electric fan was gone on it ) .. one thing is that my dad bought me this car and was happy to do so .. plus he wasnt able to drive any more .. and that was his lively hood .. he loved to drive the big old boats ..lol... i got to Vancouver and stopped at a friends to help me with the car they were working on it and i came out and i noticed this old silver flash light sittin on the drivers seat .I went to hand it to my friend and he said it wasnt his and it wasnt his brothers .. then i remembered it was the old flash light my dad had given me .. it was either under the front seat or in the trunk of my car .. but some how ended up on my seat .. now my friends had not gone thru my car to look for stuff and also i went thru the usual routine at the border of being hauled inside and my car searched and they didnt put the flash light there . cause i woulda noticed it when i got in the drivers seat at the border ... plus i had been in and out of the car a few times from the border to my friends so i woulda seen this flash light .. and ya gotta understand .. my dad loved to work on cars and he had always worked on my cars that i had all my life .. I believe that it was my dad that put the flash light there as a sign ...
Now when my dad bought me this car he told me he hated front wheel drive cars .. he like the old rear wheel type .. and always b**** about my car and always said u make sure u grease that front end or u r gonna pay a big bill .. blah blah blah .. u know the usual parent telling ya what to do routine ... well a few months later as I was pulling into my husbands moms driveway .. well there goes the front end of the car .. something my dad always told me to look after .. well i kinda didnt so i had to leave the car there .. well i got the car parked and went into the house and sat at the table I didnt go anywere else in the house and i had some stuff infront of me on the table along with my keys to my car (my dad always told me to make sure u carry a spare car key incase u ever lose em then u r not stuck ) well low and behold my keys that were right infront of me went missing .. we all searched from were the car was parked to the house and all around and all over the ground outside .. i backtracked cause i just went from my car to the house then the house to the truck to get a ride home in .. could not find my keys at all they just dissapeared and they were on one of those coily stretchy key chain things .. i mean u would b able to see then on the ground .. and i am not one to lose keys, never have .. i usually have em in my hands or coat pocket or my purse ..
I beleive the flashlight and the front end and the keys were all my dad doin this to me.. i dont know why .. one thing he had put in my car one day when i was giveing him a drive was some rubber bands he had in his pocket he jokeinly said u want some and stuck them on my gear shifter of my car and i just left them there .. I still have em to this day .. i now drive a 83 Blazer and i stuck them around the 4x4 shifter just cause i could not leave em .. it was just something my dad put there so i moved em on to my next car .. it is kinda like haveing my dad around .. it reminds me of him every time i look at them ..

well that was my experience .. it is kinda a strange story but this did happen to me ..

Marn