Happy Fathers Day!

Many things, quite a few on the “what not to do” list.

Don’t speed through Guthriesville - they will catch you, and they will give you a ticket for doing 140 in a 25...

How to pull a transmission out of a Suburban in the driveway with only a cheap little jack.

How to drop any tree sideways, or backwards, or get it hung up in the only other tree within a mile.

How to back a trailer down a boat ramp, and get back up without parking in the lake.

Don’t share your secrets with those you trust, or they’ll get out to everyone you know.

Persistence, especially when everything seems to go wrong.
 
My dad taught me how to have fun while doing hard work. “If work stops being fun, quit”
This wasn’t in the context of avoiding hard work, but more “life is short” sorta thing.

Loyalty at any cost, but “you have to take care of yourself first, otherwise your no good to anybody”

“Shave a c-hair off this will ya”.
“Dad, what’s a c”
I was 6

Truth is I think I taught him more than he taught me.
 
For my entire life there’s been a standing offer to my 4 brothers and I, we get 100$ if we beat him in a game of chess. Never gonna happen.
Occasionally I’ll get more correct than him when we watch Jeopardy though. He always kills it in chemistry and geography though.

“ Life is too short to hold grudges against family. One day either you or them won’t be there anymore. Nobody should have to carry on with guilt and wishing things could’ve ended better.”

I feel blessed to have him. Brilliant and tough old Jarhead.
 
Jonny said:
For my entire life there’s been a standing offer to my 4 brothers and I, we get 100$ if we beat him in a game of chess. Never gonna happen.
Occasionally I’ll get more correct than him when we watch Jeopardy though. He always kills it in chemistry and geography though.

“ Life is too short to hold grudges against family. One day either you or them won’t be there anymore. Nobody should have to carry on with guilt and wishing things could’ve ended better.”

I feel blessed to have him. Brilliant and tough old Jarhead.
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Feed him some shrooms and have a championship match
 
evo said:
Any body else find it odd that most of the fathers were pricks?
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I guess I was lucky. Mine wasn't. He did not always know what to say to me, and was not completely comfortable with kids, but he was certainly a great role model, a real gentleman, a world-class design engineer, and absolutely true both to my Mom and his men on the job. A different generation, where the father was sort of distant figure to look up to. Very conservative household where us kids did not speak at the dinner table or call him anything but Father or Sir. What I learned from him was mostly just by watching him as I grew up. When I run into something tricky even now in my own elder years, I often ask myself how Dad would have handled it. He would have been 94 in February and faced his last few years with Parkinsons and Cancer without a single complaint except that he regretted being a burden on Mom at the end. He was tinkering in his home shop the week he passed. RIP, Dad; I miss you.
 
evo said:
Any body else find it odd that most of the fathers were pricks?
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I can’t say mine is that bad; he’s got his faults to be sure, but he has also done a lot of good for me over the years. I’ve learned to deal with the bad sides and look for the good instead. There’s too many people out there with no father to push mine away because he is not perfect.
 
I remember an interview/podcast from Tim Ferris. He was talking with Terry Crews, football player and a bunch of other stuff. Terry said, “I don’t care what you do to your kids , in one way or another you’re gonna screw them up,”. I sort of get what he was saying. Everything in life that seems to be a blessing is also a curse, and every curse is also a blessing.

While i really feel like I had a good father, there has been the other side to all the blessings.

Granted, I think there are extremes to both sides of everything.

Just something to ponder.
 
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