Uncle Mike...

[backbreaker]

I've never talked about my uncle before the cloest man i've ever really had in my life was my uncle mike.


My dad is, was and always will be a hoe lol. he's a good man and he tries his best and he's not a bad father, he's just got too much hoing going on to ever do an y real parenting. i mean he covered the basic ****, work hard, don't steal ****, respect people but any thing other than that, meh.


anyway my uncle mike pretty much raised me. I lived on the "good" part of little rock which is west little rock and i went to school in this TAG / Magent school and to be able to go there I had to used my grandparents address which was in the HOOD lol. I had to catch the bus there and my mom picked me up from there when she got off work or got out of school she was in school pretty much my entire elementary / jr high she graduated when i went to 8th grade with a masters in communication


anyway like i said, uncle mike was my guy. He was my dad's 2nd oldest brother, I have another uncle named Jr that's 3 years older than mike and i have an aunt named Ronda who is 1 year older than my dad my dad is the baby. The cousin that played college basketball at Arkansas is Ronda's son. anyway, uncle mike was smart. he read a lot, that's why i read alot to this day. he was always reading something. he could cook, he liked sports, he liked cartoons lol, he liked wrestling. he liked porn lol. Uncle mike was easily the smartest of all my dad's brothers and sisters including my dad.


Uncle mike was really really book smart. When no one else could help me with my homework uncle mike could. Uncle mike made sure I did my homework before I played basketball and every day i got home from school he'd have a PB and J sammich and a coke ready for me and he'd give me 50 cents to go down to the pool hall and shoot pool (you can't beat me in pool by the way don't even try lol you're wasting your time). As you can see I love uncle mike very much.


The thing about uncle mike, is he had sickle cell. My family is really athletic and he becuase of this he could not be. so he read and **** a lot. he couldn't really hold a real job. He always struggled financially so whenever i mowed a yard or something or had any extra money i'd buy him a beer or buy him something I knew he would like . There are levels of sickle cell you have the sickle cell like T-boz in TLC had which is somewhat mild and doesn't restrain physical activity.. my uncle had one of the worst cases you can have. he could barley leave the house. my dad who owns a janitorial company basically hired him to clean this one building he has. which i could do myself in about 45 mins and it would take him 4-5 hours to do, and to basically be my babysitter he couldn't hold a regular job


He's always been sickly becuase of his disease, but it's gotten worse the last few years, we thought we lost him 2 years ago but he made it through. My mom called me about a month ago and told me that he's going downhill really fast and they don't think he's gonna make it. I called him and talked to him and it broke my heart, that's my guy . we talked about **** we normally talk about, the cowboys, the manny / floyd fight coming up, what's going on back in little rock. It really sucked becuase I knew it was probably the last time I could talk to him. If my wife had our daughter any other time I would have instantly flown down to little rock and been there but i couldn't' leave her here alone being pregnant/ having a week old baby and a 7 year old.I still felt rally bad.


Anyway today around 20 mins before the kentucky derby I got a call from my mom, he passed away earlier today. 58 years old.


No man has had more of an impact on my life than my uncle mike. He taught me how to work hard and take school seriously, he taught me that it was okay to be black and be interested in **** other than sports. He taught me how to cook, he literally taught me how to read and tuaght me how to make reading a life long habit.


My son, 7 years old saw me cry today for the first time in my life and he was like daddy what's wrong and I had to explain to him that uncle mike was gone.


I love you man, I'm gonna miss you. I'll see you up there day

 

[ChrisFloyd]

Uncle Mike would have preferred the last sentence you wrote to him was correctly constructed.

Anyway RIP Uncle Mike.

 

[backseatjuan]

Well my family from my father's side is nothing to me. My dad divorced my mother when I was 7, and prior to that he was in jail for steeling from the company he worked for. Nobody from his family visited him, only us, and it was a 2 hour fly to moscow, and then another 4 hour fly to the north of moscow, I was little and I still remember the snow, and the barb wire. He now has new family, a fat woman and children not his own that he calls his own. I am to him now, and he truly thinks that way, an adopted son. My two cousins from his side that we played together with during childhood are not in contact, they are there, but they won't call unless I call.

My uncle from my mother's side is 50 something year old drug junkie, he been using drugs from his teens, and now he is the oldest junkie in town, people are surprised that he lived this long. From my family only my mother, her sister, and I am are successful. My uncle tought me this, don't trust anyone, don't belive anything, don't fear anyone. Other than that he is pretty finished. I don't talk to him much, because whenever I talk to him it's some kind of gain. He is a junkie and he has aids and it's just a matter of time.

You don't choose family, and I think you got really luck with your family, especially your uncle.

 

[zekko]

Sorry to hear about that, man, he sounds like he was a great guy.
I thought this was going to be one of those "My uncle was a nice guy and really smart, but he was a beta and couldn't get laid..." type of posts.
But that svcks.

 

[backbreaker]

he was a beta that couldn't get laid lol but he was still my people. i honestly would not be surprised if uncle mike died a virgin. he never really got to experience life like everyone else. he's the person that turned me on to porn lol. i used to watch his stash when i was 11-12 years old.


just left his funeral i few down here this morning for it. saw a bunch of family i haven't seen in years. found out i'm more of a mutt than i originally thought lol