My grand father the night before his death, and had been incoherent and hardly conscious before, sat bolt upright and said “tell them, you have to tell them, the experiment went horribly wrong!” Laid down and was dead by morning. I miss that bastard. He was driving me back to college one day and a cop tried to pull him over for (unbeknownst to him) expired tags. He just ignored the cop. I told him to pull over and he said “absolutely not, I didn’t do anything wrong!” We get off the highway and at a redlight the cop runs up and pounds on the window, grandpa rolls down the window and calmly goes “can I help you officer?” The cop rips him a new one and wants license and registration. So I open the glove box, he had 20+ years of registrations for that car, multiple other cars, two RVs, and a couple of boats. Somehow after all this the cop let him off with a warning. I miss that man with all my heart. He was an incredible man. One other story for anyone reading this. We were talking about buying an automatic cleaning kitty litter box, I told my grandpa and he got pissed and asked why the hell we would spend money on that when he had a motor for an old VW outside and could easily rig one up for us.

The man was my hero.