I read builttoughF250"s post about proper funeral attire

and I'm sorry to hear it and offer my deepest sympathy........but It got me thinking about losing my best friend a few years ago.........

Aaron "Ogar" Fletcher was my best friend, I'd ran with him for years, He was my best man at my wedding, he came to see my boys when they were born...he was always around......whether you wanted him there or not...lol

his brother passed away, Two years later his mother passed away, and two years after that his father passed away.....

Ogar's father had left him some money "a lot" and he had these punks start hanging around him........they were just there for the free ride and the partying.......

We all told him that but he didn't care because he didn't want to be alone...........with his family gone he was kinda by himself.....

It was about two years since his father passed,and memorial day to boot.......Ogar got to thinking, and he and another friend Tim Fannin "not a punk"got to drinking............

they were found the next morning where they had wreaked on Ogars street bike.......Ogar evidently ran off the road at a HIGH rate of speed............a small tree caught Tim and pulled him off breaking his neck............Ogar stayed on the bike as it went over an enbankment an struck a tree head on...........

Both were killed pretty much instantly.........

At the funeral ( grave side service ) Myself an his "old" friends wore suits or dressed nice................

But his "new" friends, this punks wore tie-dyed shirts,cut off baggie pants, and NO shoes.........

I couldn't believe It.........Still makes me mad to think of it

I bit my tongue and didn't say anything...."not the right time "

the next day I met one of these punks and "asked" him just what he was thinking.........He said Ogar would have wanted it that way. He never wore suits or dress up for anything like that......

No he didn't while those punks where around.....but I have pictures of Ogar at my wedding,and other places dressed nice or
In suits....

Later after I cooled off that same punk was at my house for some reason and was looking at a picture of a guy in a suit on my T.V......

When He ask me who that was I almost blew up and beat him senseless ............IT WAS OGAR !!!!!!!!!!

thats been almost four years ago and It still gets me so mad I'd just like to hunt'em all down and stomp their heads in the ground......

I'm sorry I"m just venting............I'm going to bed now.......

 

A few years back i also lost my best friend, we had been hanging out since we were in middle school.

It was spring break of '00 and i had just bought a 91 mustang coupe. He wanted to go to the beach and see all the girls laying out.

We left and went to the beach, he was hanging out the window waving at the girls that noticed us and i actually had to make him get back into the car with me because a cop wheeled in behind us.

We went down to the turn around spot, and we took back off towards home.

Unfortunately we never made it, a 80 F-150 sideswiped us as made it across the intersection. The guy in the truck was traveling at least 80mph on a 45 mph road. He never would have hit us and killed Will if he wouldn't have been speeding and panic braked when he saw the tail of my car.

I never saw the guy, as i was in and out of conciousness while he was around.

Soon after, my father accused me of killing my best friend.

If i wouldn't have had a tube in my lung and one of my arms being useless i would have ripped his head off right there.

It still makes me mad to this day, and always will.


Sorry for the rant at the end people...i just had to vent also.

 

I know wearing a suit would be the best thing to do but me and a friend got to talking and we agreed that if the unfortunate ever happened that we would be at the funeral with cowboy hats, boots and jeans. Its the way we are and the way we live.

 

Got to go with tsheriff on this one. The way we live, the way we die.

Tony Warren
Nebraska