Posted on 06/17/2018 8:40:20 AM PDT by rktman
With Father's Day quickly approaching, you may find yourself at a loss as to what to buy dear old dad. If he reads Townhall, then you have it made. However, for the few of you who find yourself in that awkward situation where you suspect your father might just be a snowflake, here's a helpful guide in both identifying telltale symptoms and helpful gift antidotes.
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I guess my kids are LUCKY - they don’t have a snowflake.
One more gift suggestion: Give him a Phillips screwdriver and tell him which end to hold.
Biggest clue:
“Mom” and “Dad” are actually the same sex, in spite of clothing or surgery, and you are the result of adoption or artificial insemination.
Sadly, I know a few . . . I keep my distance but a few of the 15 gifts apply.
No, tell him to go fetch the metric phillips head, Or the metric crescent wrench.
Actually a professional pedicure is a good idea if you are going to be hiking or marching. Sans the nail polish of course. :)
Take care of your feet and they will take you where you want to go.
i second this. and no ladies want your gnarly toenails scraping her legs in bed. Call it a sports pedicure if u must but take care of your feet and toes.
LOL! I spent a few seconds on that one!
Or the “on” and “off” ratchets.
a copy of one of trumps books as a tripwire
This is a better quiz than John Hawkins’ simple-minded Alpha Male one a while back. My father would have aced it.
My father was - and the Lord Jesus Christ is - a Beta Male according to simpleton Hawkins and his cookie-cutter classifications.
My father was highly introverted and generally unaggresive - yet high school girls I knew feared calling my house in case he would answer.
He did not seem the modern stereotype of a man’s man, but he served in the Navy, shot guns, and flew planes. He lettered in baseball, and played on a Battalion championship basketball team. He was a patriot and a conservative. He sometimes taught Sunday School, and wrote letters to Christianity Today (which got him mistaken for a clergyman, causing confusion).
His idea of a good time was sitting in his chair and reading the Bible or watching I Love Lucy reruns.
He designed jets and rockets for a living, but I only had a vague idea what he did because it was all classified and he never talked about work or co-workers.
I found out at age 20 that he had once been briefly world famous, on the front page above the fold of every newspaper in the land, a guest on the Today Show with Dave Garroway, and a keynote speaker at an international symposium on aeronautics. (I could not imagine him giving a public speech.)
I was stunned to learn this. He never bragged about such things and displayed zero interest in fame, and when I confronted my mother about this, she said, “Oh, yeah, that was a big deal. You were too little, and wouldn’t remember. It was all part of the job, so he did it.”
Life is strange, and people are complex.
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