Post by Bob Grenier on Jan 22, 2023 0:14:03 GMT -5
For generations the Grenier family has farmed the land on which Bob Grenier now resides. He comes from good stock. He was exposed to a strong work ethic from an early age and that strong work ethic has brought him much success in his life.
During the prosperous years the rain would fall and nourish the earth. The earth would provide sustenance throughput the year. It wasn't always prosperous though because there always came the time when the rain failed to fall. These were the dry years. The soil would harden and crack, The streams would dry up. Cattle and other livestock would starve to death. Often times families would sell out for next to nothing and move away. Through the wet years and the dry years, The Grenier family refused to sell out and to this day remain rooted in their hometown.
Bob Grenier is at The Manor. This is the old folks home where his Aunt Ruth resides. She is 94 years old. She's loud, abrasive and usually has a bottle of scotch tucked away in her garter belt. She'll never say no to a puff of a joint or a drink.
Bob checks in with the receptionist and she escorts him to the common area of the old folks home. Aunt Ruth walks up to him and whacks him the face with her cane.
Bob: What the hell?
Aunt Ruth takes a swig from her bottle and carefully places it back where she got it from.
Aunt Ruth: You ate all those freshly baked cookies I made for the family reunion. Didn't save any for anybody else.
Bob: Aunt Ruth that was like 30 years ago that happened.
Aunt Ruth: Don't talk back to me. Wait until your father comes back from fishing.
Aunt Ruth then walks back to her room and lays down for a nap. It doesn't take him long to realize what's going on. An orderly confirms that she is suffering from dementia.
Such is life. Sometimes things come unexpectedly and you just have to learn how to deal with them. Bob immediately begins to think of his tag team partner Jam G and where he might be. He hasn't heard from him in months. The last he heard was that Jam was living in anonymity somewhere in the Florida panhandle.
Bam G caught lighting in a bottle last year and had a pretty good run. When things fizzled out they kind of went separate ways and lost contact. They both would eventually leave OCW. With a heavy heart and a mind swirling with all kinds of different thoughts he books himself a flight to Florida in a quest to find his friend and bring him back to the ring.
Less than 24 hours later Bob enters a corner store on the outskirts of a small town. He takes the picture of Jam G out of his pocket and shows the clerk. The clerk immediately recognizes the person in the photograph.
Clerk: I swear that's Eddie, He come around about 7-8 months ago, Wrestling alligators for cash from tourists.
Bob: I need to find him.
Clerk: You'll need a boat. You can borrow mine in the morning. I call her "Papa's Worst Nightmare". Tonight, You can crash at my house with me and my family.
Bob: I don't think that's such a good idea you know. I need to find my friend. Maybe I can come borrow the boat in the morning still?
Clerk: Nonsense, Come to my house. Eat my wife's crappy meatloaf and smoke my weed. It's cool. My name is Ernie by the way, Ernie Bambalimo.
Bob: Maybe you should have lead with the weed part Ernie.
Later on Bob sits at the dinner table with Ernie and his family. The meatloaf certainly sucks but they choke it down anyway.
Ernie: Barry, What did you do today?
Barry is Ernie's 18 year old son. Bob purposely drops some meatloaf on the floor and the dog doesn't even touch it.
Barry: Oh I had a day I tell you, I grabbed Mrs. Andersons cat because it kept fucking with my marijuana plants right.. So I grabbed this cat and I shaved all its fur off.
Bonnie, The wife, Is obviously pilled out of her mind. She doesn't eat and just drinks wine. She begins to fall asleep. She quickly snaps back awake.
Bonny: Barry just loves animals.
Ernie: What about you day dear?
He's speaking to his daughter, Erica.
Erica: Gave some refugee a hand job under the overpass for $10. $10 a stroke, $20 a blow there bud.
She is speaking to Bob. Bob just laughs.
Bob: You? Never. I was married to Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years.
Erica: I don't even know who that is or who you are either. What do you even do? Was married? What happened there bro? Scare her off?
Bob: She left, I'm.. I'm fucking complicated ok!
Ernie: This right here Is Bob Grenier! You show some respect.
Bob: Thank you Ernie.
Erica: THE Bob Grenier? Sitting at our table?
Barry: Didn't you go to jail for like a year for assaulting a police officer.. But..
Bob: Yes, It's actually true.
Ernie: What, What happened?
Barry: So this guy is being detained and he rips this gigantic fart as they're doing the pat down and the cop gets pissed.
The entire table is laughing.
Bob: Then I kind of did it again and the officer clubbed me pretty good. Then it all is kind of a blur after that. One officer did end up with a broken jaw. I did my time. Now I'm just trying to get back into the ring and prove that I can still do the one thing I love to do. I also need to go find my friend.
Ernie: Get high with me first? Before you go.
Bob: Don't gotta twist my rubber arm. Good luck with the hand jobs. Let's go Ernie.
The wife has fallen asleep in her plate of mash potatoes. The son has begun playing with a set of matches at the kitchen table as the daughter contacts another john.
They enter a garage and proceed to hotbox the shit out of it. Once they are sufficiently baked, Ernie hands Bob the keys and gives him directions on where he can find his tag team partner.
A few hours later, The sun has just begun to rise and Bob finds Jam G out in a shack in the middle of the Florida everglades. He hasn't been seen in months. He appears in tattered clothing and sporting a gnarly beard. He carries a guitar.
Bob: I was told I'd find you out here.
Jam G: What's up man?
Bob: I've been looking for you. It's time to get the team back together. We've got work to do.
Jam G begins to strum the guitar and sings a song in perfect tune.
"I fell in love with a moonshiners daughter
The poorer she treat me the more that I want her.
She takes my money and leaves me no smokes.
She tears me down and insults my folks
Leaves me treadin' water
I fell in love with a moonshiners daughter"
Jam G: Trying to make it out here as a folk singer these days. What did you think?
Bob: That was catchy dude but we should go.
Jam G: Why man? I got my boat, Papa's Worst Nightmare.. My guitar here and my band Jam G and The Gas House Gang.
Bob: We have a match on Massacre. It's the main event. Bam G vs TLS and a mystery partner. I need you dude.
Jam G: That sounds foolish. I've really found myself here. I'll never strike a.man with my fist again, As long as I live.
Bob: TLS is out there talking about how I don't have it anymore and how you don't belong on television.
Jam G: The Lost Soul, How is he anyway? Give him my regards. Tell him we should do lunch sometime, On me of course. I bet he'd enjoy a nice alligator stew.
Bob: What's happened to you man?
Jam G: What's happened to me? I've aligned my chi. I've left my abusive wife and kids and found my center. I can't help you. I'm sorry.
Bob: I understand. I brought you a gift though. Should you change your mind.
Bob produces the Jam G mask from behind his back and gives it to him.
Bob: I've been keeping it until I saw you again. We kinda lost touch there for awhile. I kind of lost touch with everybody, Including myself. I'll leave you to it. Call me should you change your mind.
He jumps back into Ernies boat and slowly makes his way back across the swamp without looking back. If Jam G decides to no show, It doesn't matter. Bob Grenier has never been one to back down from a fight.
You can say what you want.
You can believe what you want.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion.
You can say Bob Grenier isn't as good as he used to be and that may be true.. But there will be a day where TLS and anyone else who has spoken those words will eat them.
He has returned. With so much to prove, The redemption tour has officially began but win, lose or draw one thing has always remained constant and one thing will never change and that is that.
Bob Grenier is forever.
As he leaves the everglades three words in a text message add a little color to his world. It simply reads.. "I'll be there."
During the prosperous years the rain would fall and nourish the earth. The earth would provide sustenance throughput the year. It wasn't always prosperous though because there always came the time when the rain failed to fall. These were the dry years. The soil would harden and crack, The streams would dry up. Cattle and other livestock would starve to death. Often times families would sell out for next to nothing and move away. Through the wet years and the dry years, The Grenier family refused to sell out and to this day remain rooted in their hometown.
Bob Grenier is at The Manor. This is the old folks home where his Aunt Ruth resides. She is 94 years old. She's loud, abrasive and usually has a bottle of scotch tucked away in her garter belt. She'll never say no to a puff of a joint or a drink.
Bob checks in with the receptionist and she escorts him to the common area of the old folks home. Aunt Ruth walks up to him and whacks him the face with her cane.
Bob: What the hell?
Aunt Ruth takes a swig from her bottle and carefully places it back where she got it from.
Aunt Ruth: You ate all those freshly baked cookies I made for the family reunion. Didn't save any for anybody else.
Bob: Aunt Ruth that was like 30 years ago that happened.
Aunt Ruth: Don't talk back to me. Wait until your father comes back from fishing.
Aunt Ruth then walks back to her room and lays down for a nap. It doesn't take him long to realize what's going on. An orderly confirms that she is suffering from dementia.
Such is life. Sometimes things come unexpectedly and you just have to learn how to deal with them. Bob immediately begins to think of his tag team partner Jam G and where he might be. He hasn't heard from him in months. The last he heard was that Jam was living in anonymity somewhere in the Florida panhandle.
Bam G caught lighting in a bottle last year and had a pretty good run. When things fizzled out they kind of went separate ways and lost contact. They both would eventually leave OCW. With a heavy heart and a mind swirling with all kinds of different thoughts he books himself a flight to Florida in a quest to find his friend and bring him back to the ring.
Less than 24 hours later Bob enters a corner store on the outskirts of a small town. He takes the picture of Jam G out of his pocket and shows the clerk. The clerk immediately recognizes the person in the photograph.
Clerk: I swear that's Eddie, He come around about 7-8 months ago, Wrestling alligators for cash from tourists.
Bob: I need to find him.
Clerk: You'll need a boat. You can borrow mine in the morning. I call her "Papa's Worst Nightmare". Tonight, You can crash at my house with me and my family.
Bob: I don't think that's such a good idea you know. I need to find my friend. Maybe I can come borrow the boat in the morning still?
Clerk: Nonsense, Come to my house. Eat my wife's crappy meatloaf and smoke my weed. It's cool. My name is Ernie by the way, Ernie Bambalimo.
Bob: Maybe you should have lead with the weed part Ernie.
Later on Bob sits at the dinner table with Ernie and his family. The meatloaf certainly sucks but they choke it down anyway.
Ernie: Barry, What did you do today?
Barry is Ernie's 18 year old son. Bob purposely drops some meatloaf on the floor and the dog doesn't even touch it.
Barry: Oh I had a day I tell you, I grabbed Mrs. Andersons cat because it kept fucking with my marijuana plants right.. So I grabbed this cat and I shaved all its fur off.
Bonnie, The wife, Is obviously pilled out of her mind. She doesn't eat and just drinks wine. She begins to fall asleep. She quickly snaps back awake.
Bonny: Barry just loves animals.
Ernie: What about you day dear?
He's speaking to his daughter, Erica.
Erica: Gave some refugee a hand job under the overpass for $10. $10 a stroke, $20 a blow there bud.
She is speaking to Bob. Bob just laughs.
Bob: You? Never. I was married to Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years.
Erica: I don't even know who that is or who you are either. What do you even do? Was married? What happened there bro? Scare her off?
Bob: She left, I'm.. I'm fucking complicated ok!
Ernie: This right here Is Bob Grenier! You show some respect.
Bob: Thank you Ernie.
Erica: THE Bob Grenier? Sitting at our table?
Barry: Didn't you go to jail for like a year for assaulting a police officer.. But..
Bob: Yes, It's actually true.
Ernie: What, What happened?
Barry: So this guy is being detained and he rips this gigantic fart as they're doing the pat down and the cop gets pissed.
The entire table is laughing.
Bob: Then I kind of did it again and the officer clubbed me pretty good. Then it all is kind of a blur after that. One officer did end up with a broken jaw. I did my time. Now I'm just trying to get back into the ring and prove that I can still do the one thing I love to do. I also need to go find my friend.
Ernie: Get high with me first? Before you go.
Bob: Don't gotta twist my rubber arm. Good luck with the hand jobs. Let's go Ernie.
The wife has fallen asleep in her plate of mash potatoes. The son has begun playing with a set of matches at the kitchen table as the daughter contacts another john.
They enter a garage and proceed to hotbox the shit out of it. Once they are sufficiently baked, Ernie hands Bob the keys and gives him directions on where he can find his tag team partner.
A few hours later, The sun has just begun to rise and Bob finds Jam G out in a shack in the middle of the Florida everglades. He hasn't been seen in months. He appears in tattered clothing and sporting a gnarly beard. He carries a guitar.
Bob: I was told I'd find you out here.
Jam G: What's up man?
Bob: I've been looking for you. It's time to get the team back together. We've got work to do.
Jam G begins to strum the guitar and sings a song in perfect tune.
"I fell in love with a moonshiners daughter
The poorer she treat me the more that I want her.
She takes my money and leaves me no smokes.
She tears me down and insults my folks
Leaves me treadin' water
I fell in love with a moonshiners daughter"
Jam G: Trying to make it out here as a folk singer these days. What did you think?
Bob: That was catchy dude but we should go.
Jam G: Why man? I got my boat, Papa's Worst Nightmare.. My guitar here and my band Jam G and The Gas House Gang.
Bob: We have a match on Massacre. It's the main event. Bam G vs TLS and a mystery partner. I need you dude.
Jam G: That sounds foolish. I've really found myself here. I'll never strike a.man with my fist again, As long as I live.
Bob: TLS is out there talking about how I don't have it anymore and how you don't belong on television.
Jam G: The Lost Soul, How is he anyway? Give him my regards. Tell him we should do lunch sometime, On me of course. I bet he'd enjoy a nice alligator stew.
Bob: What's happened to you man?
Jam G: What's happened to me? I've aligned my chi. I've left my abusive wife and kids and found my center. I can't help you. I'm sorry.
Bob: I understand. I brought you a gift though. Should you change your mind.
Bob produces the Jam G mask from behind his back and gives it to him.
Bob: I've been keeping it until I saw you again. We kinda lost touch there for awhile. I kind of lost touch with everybody, Including myself. I'll leave you to it. Call me should you change your mind.
He jumps back into Ernies boat and slowly makes his way back across the swamp without looking back. If Jam G decides to no show, It doesn't matter. Bob Grenier has never been one to back down from a fight.
You can say what you want.
You can believe what you want.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion.
You can say Bob Grenier isn't as good as he used to be and that may be true.. But there will be a day where TLS and anyone else who has spoken those words will eat them.
He has returned. With so much to prove, The redemption tour has officially began but win, lose or draw one thing has always remained constant and one thing will never change and that is that.
Bob Grenier is forever.
As he leaves the everglades three words in a text message add a little color to his world. It simply reads.. "I'll be there."