# Old Friend From Park Bench **URL:** \ **Category:** Park Bench\ **Created:** [August 18, 2019, 12:30am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721 "2019-08-18T00:30:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MidKitten](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@MidKitten](https://bbad.com/u/MidKitten)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 12:30am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/1 "2019-08-18T00:30:35Z")
Good Evening All, I was known as MidKitten or GrizzlyMidkitty. I am curious how much bbad has changed in 3+ years. It has been a while since I’ve stopped by. Cheers, MK ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/2 "2019-08-18T00:54:47Z")
Hi Holly. How’s life been treating you? Do the Grizzlies still exist? ---
**Author:** ![AgeofGrace](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AgeofGrace](https://bbad.com/u/AgeofGrace)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/3 "2019-08-18T01:37:37Z")
Oh Wow! I remember. There were many. ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/4 "2019-08-18T03:34:05Z")
Hello Midkitten. I was Bald Elvis and for a short time Grizzly Elvis then MyBigMoon. ---
**Author:** ![AgeofGrace](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AgeofGrace](https://bbad.com/u/AgeofGrace)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/5 "2019-08-18T03:59:26Z")
Well isn’t that interesting. ---
**Author:** ![AgeofGrace](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AgeofGrace](https://bbad.com/u/AgeofGrace)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/6 "2019-08-18T04:31:35Z")
Hi MidKitten. You know, the funny thing about the Grizzly’s. I thought they all had something in common. I just can’t remember what it was. ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/7 "2019-08-18T12:25:34Z")
> [@Reg](#): > > Do the Grizzlies still exist? I know one of the founders, Grizzly Error 404 died. ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/8 "2019-08-18T14:24:37Z")
I’d like to know what happened to the guy who got the big Grizzly Chess Club tattoo. I’m not a big fan of tattoos in general but that one makes me chuckle. At least if you tattoo a girl’s name on yourself and she leaves you, you have a few memories and a story to tell. This guy just has a silly tatt of a chess club that (presumably) doesn’t exist anymore. ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/9 "2019-08-18T15:33:15Z")
I wasn’t a Grizzly for long at all. Didn’t get along with most of them. ---
**Author:** ![AgeofGrace](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AgeofGrace](https://bbad.com/u/AgeofGrace)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/10 "2019-08-18T15:36:02Z")
Why didn’t you get along with them? ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/11 "2019-08-18T15:36:41Z")
> [@MyBigMoon](#): > > I wasn’t a Grizzly for long at all. Didn’t get along with most of them. I had no idea you had joined for awhile! You’re totally opposite from most of them in personality. ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/12 "2019-08-18T15:37:52Z")
I don’t know what I was thinking. Probably drunk. Most of them were assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/13 "2019-08-18T15:58:37Z")
That club was very much a clan with clan mentality. One for all and all for one. I’m the opposite. I’m very much an individual and so are all of you as far as I can see. I do my own thing and if others do it differently, that’s fine with me. If I think any of you are being idiots, I say so and I don’t freak out when you all do the same to me. I have no trouble being friends with people who I think are idiots on some matters and who think I’m an idiot on some matters in return. It’s just a totally different mindset. ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/14 "2019-08-18T16:30:51Z")
> [@Reg](#): > > That club was very much a clan with clan mentality. Yeah, I didn’t last long. I heard rumors of orgies. ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/15 "2019-08-18T16:46:21Z")
They were mostly 300lb+. That’s not a good mental pic. Did you quit or get kicked out? ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/16 "2019-08-18T18:00:04Z")
Quit. It was a short run. I found most of them to be egotistical blowhards. ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/17 "2019-08-18T18:16:12Z")
I wonder whatever happened to Pete from Australia. ---
**Author:** ![NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/nickscafe/32/9765_2.png) [@NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/u/NicksCafe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/18 "2019-08-18T19:20:38Z")
Were they good at chess? I can’t remember who was best. Albo was pretty good, but not great. I think most of the regulars were a little better than me, but I don’t remember anyone outstanding. ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/19 "2019-08-18T19:29:37Z")
> [@NicksCafe](#): > > Were they good at chess? Some of the Grizzlies were very good. I played GrizzlyLoco a few times and lost the majority of the games. Most were average players and a few were terrible. They almost all took chess too seriously, imo. It’s a game, not a reason for living. > [@MyBigMoon](#): > > I wonder whatever happened to Pete from Australia. He’s dropped by a few times in the last couple of years. I remember him having some reverses in business and then he stopped coming regularly. Hope he’s ok. He must be 60 now. ---
**Author:** ![MidKitten](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@MidKitten](https://bbad.com/u/MidKitten)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721/20 "2019-08-19T11:39:19Z")
Hi Reg, There are some I keep in contact with. We haven’t gotten together in a decade or more. Grizzly Loco died a few years ago (he was the one with the large grizxly tatoo on his thigh. Life is good. Married 9 years with two sons now. [Next page](https://bbad.com/t/old-friend-from-park-bench/721.md?page=2)