He would put his sister's down all the time but his brothers were long suffering because of their wives. He would say that his sister would never ever be in a court room and be a proper solicitor. I said that she could be a legal secretary and that millions of graduates work in jobs that you wouldn't initially have guessed their degree would lead to.
Fred spoke to an old teacher and they just blew his head bigger than it all ready was. Saying that they wish they had gone down his route and had a trade. Kids are disrespectful, there's no discipline without the belt etc. everything we all knew. And a teacher said that Fred had more common sense than his sister. Why would he do that? His sister was highly strung and ambitious but he didn't have to pit Fred against someone in his own family and undermine her achievements. I knew who she was from school and everyone knew she was very intelligent.

The truth was that Fred wasn't happy with his job as a fabricator or in a timber yard. He wanted to be a mechanic, joiner, builder etc. They had more scope than being stuck in one place. They could do jobs of their own outside of work hours as long as they published their extra earning. Or in time you start your own business.
With both his jobs when I knew him, there was no extra hours, they were fixed. His sister said he could have done engineering at university. We all knew he felt he was selling himself short so she was trying to be encouraging. Even though Fred had nothing nice to say about her.

If Fred saw someone with a shirt and tie at Macdonalds drive through. He'd say typical executive, does nothing but work and eat c^ap food and will end up having a coronary .
When it was my grandfather s 80th he had his two pennies worth pop at my mum's family. What is he so full of himself for, look at his belly for a man in his twenties. And I didnt agree with him, even though the relative in question did say inappropriate things that were a result of his privileged background. Fred needed to grow up was all I thought.