Do all dad's get even more stubborn and impatient as they get older?

[m_c]

My dad has decided he's selling his MF135 Vineyard, and I've come to the conclusion he's doing pretty much everything he can to devalue it.

He was told not to paint it, as tractors in original working condition are currently worth more.
Next thing, all the logos are off it, and existing paintwork has been buffed down.

I've just come back from a week holiday, to be told - "The tractor's painted. I found a tin of paint in the shed".
Now I knew the only tin with enough paint in it, was a wrongly mixed tin, that must be about 10 years old, and was buried in a box with other totally random tins.
It wouldn't be so bad, but I had laid out a partial tin of genuine AGCO MF Super Red, but that got ignored as "there wasn't enough in the tin".

So we currently have a badly painted MF135 that is more orange than red, and the worst bit is, the paint is that old it's degraded and not setting. He painted it last week, and it's still tacky.
Plus he's painted the wheels with Ferguson Grey, not Stoneleigh Grey. So even the wheels don't even remotely match the other grey bits.

And the response so far has been, "I'm not painting it again. It looks better than it did".
You could stick a Howard badge on it just now, and claim it was some form of demo tractor, it's that's wrong a colour.

And I just know I'm going to be the one who's going to have to sort the mess out, but I really don't have the time to be stripping non-set paint back of every bit of the tractor

 

[brightspark]

just let him get on with it

 

[Parm]

In answer to your question. YES !

 

[keithski122]

They also become bodgers.The amount of old man restored cars we see at work that are held together with pop rivets and painted with hammerite.

 

[S-Rail]

Yep , my father owned a triumph sprint , bought it new in 1995 , loved it , rode it , mid aged crisis thing .

About 2005 stopped riding it as he was able to deal with its size and dropped it a couple times .

Come 2010 a mate offered him good money ….. nope not interested .

5 years later and 5 years of the neighbours car pi$$ing on it and the chrome is knackered , the engine finish knackered , mate offers him less but still not enough

Now it is just a spares or severe repair ….. but still won’t part with it …. Waiting till he dies so I can just sweep up the pile of rust and put it in the bin now .

 

[m_c]

Forgot to attach a photo-

 

[brightspark]

Yep , my father owned a triumph sprint , bought it new in 1995 , loved it , rode it , mid aged crisis thing .

About 2005 stopped riding it as he was able to deal with its size and dropped it a couple times .

Come 2010 a mate offered him good money ….. nope not interested .

5 years later and 5 years of the neighbours car pi$$ing on it and the chrome is knackered , the engine finish knackered , mate offers him less but still not enough

Now it is just a spares or severe repair ….. but still won’t part with it …. Waiting till he dies so I can just sweep up the pile of rust and put it in the bin now .

Forgot to attach a photo-
well at least it wont go rusty

 

[Barking Mat]

Yes, it's like when you're young, you're not going to become your father.

Then you eventually realise it's inevitable.

Every time I visit my parents I delete his Mail Online app, and replace it with anything else.

 

[bricol]

Dunno - mine died 26 yrs ago - but my 84yr old mum certainly has . . . I found her on the floor a few weeks ago after she finally remembered the alarm pendant around her neck - spent a week in hospital agreeing she needed help and assistance . . . Care people rang me to to check a few things - all going to be sorted . . . the day they discharged her, they rang me again - she'd refused it all . . .

Refuses to move any furniture, get rid of the rugs she trips over, use any extra equipment to help . . .

So I've found if I simply do it, she either doesn't notice, or decides its actually okay and doesn't say anything . . . the hallway rug I spent 10 yrs asking her to get rid of, I removed before she got home two weeks ago . . . not been mentioned . . .

I've warned my other half, who is 12yrs younger than me, she's got it all to come from me in just over 30 yrs . . .

 

[S-Rail]

Yes, it's like when you're young, you're not going to become your father.

Then you eventually realise it's inevitable.

Every time I visit my parents I delete his Mail Online app, and replace it with anything else.

1 ) my dads actually a very nice chap , so no , I won’t turn out like him

2) when ever I go and see my folks , and upon leaving , the phone is next to the front door , I tell them I will see myself out and not to get up …. I then dial the BT engineer test call back number which is 174 , hang up and walk out , shut the door , and as I get to the end of the path I can hear the phone ring ….. I fill knowledge that one of them has to get up and answer it

 

[Gragson]

Might be an exception. my old man became a much nicer more listening person as he got older and appreciated advice - possibly because he was such an ass in his 40-50s'
Mellowed big style, miss the old bugger

 

[Barking Mat]

1 ) my dads actually a very nice chap , so no , I won’t turn out like him

2) when ever I go and see my folks , and upon leaving , the phone is next to the front door , I tell them I will see myself out and not to get up …. I then dial the BT engineer test call back number which is 174 , hang up and walk out , shut the door , and as I get to the end of the path I can hear the phone ring ….. I fill knowledge that one of them has to get up and answer it

Don't get me wrong, my parents are lovely.

Just Daily Mail Online, don't know when that started ???

He was an artist / art teacher FFS.

 

[Richiew]

Sidebar of shame. Obvs.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

So I've found if I simply do it, she either doesn't notice, or decides its actually okay and doesn't say anything . . .

I'm going through something very similar at the moment...I'm really hoping I don't go the same way!

 

[roofman]

Just let him enjoy living his life,..he,s doing no harm surely playing with HIS OWN stuff
"Waiting till he dies so I can just sweep up the pile of rust and put it in the bin now"...glad your not my son

 

[Parm]

Don't get me wrong, my parents are lovely.

Just Daily Mail Online, don't know when that started ???

He was an artist / art teacher FFS.

Worry when they get iPads and discover the internet.

They don’t understand that stuff written on the internet isn’t always right

 

[AVI_8]

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You’ve just brought back some memories
It looks much better than the 135 I learned to drive on in 1981 when I was 11years old. But that was a working tractor, I have happy memories of turning hay and bringing in hay bales, triangles made of bales in those days, I learned how to wheelie it up the field with 2 lots on the buck rake could do several hundred metres, for a child I was in motoring Nirvana.
But at least put the badges back on.
Let him get on with it, one day you won’t have him, Just like I don’t have mine any more

 

[Migmac]

It’s older men and tractors, my father in law gave my sons his old tractor. He painted all by hand with the right colours though. Didn’t do much, if any prep work. It’s covered in runs, look awful. Looks better than it did apparently! I’ve told the boys it’s theirs they can sort it, I’m not getting involved. Be weekends after weekends to get it right.

 

[Munkul]

All men get more stubborn and impatient as they get older, and the older and more stubborn they get, the less they are aware of it.

They also become cheapskate bodgers and sometimes bodge just for the sake of it.

Cousin bought his dad a nice new wheelbarrow a month ago. To replace his absolutely rotten one. He knew that if it was chinese, he would refuse it, so he spent a bit of coin and got a lovely english made barrow in shiny powdercoated black.

The day after he received it, he hand painted it with some rank old peach coloured paint. It literally looks like some old cobbled wheelbarrow now.

No-one knows why.

The worst thing is, we're all destined to become as bad as they are, some day

 

[Tangledfeet]

Someday you'll be just like him... its inevitable.