WHAT'S THE BEST ADVICE YOU HAVE HEARD FROM YOUR DAD

6/19/16 | walkingfeather

[Walkingfeather]

What is the best advice you have heard from your dad or any dad ?

[HypatiaTaught]

You can only spend a dollar once.

[umgud]

There was a great golfer, whose father told to “keep your eye on the ball and screw the rest.”

[Gadsden1st]

When I became a teenager, He told me a story about a cat that was sleeping on a streetcar track. A streetcar ran over it’s tail and cut a piece off. The cat spun around and the streetcar then ran over it’s head and cut it off.

His moral of the story: “Don’t loose your head over a piece of tail!”

[wastoute]

Never enlist in the Army. Hold out for a Commission.

[LouAvul]

My basement leaked. He told me how to fix it, viz. to extend the downspout drain away from the house.

I was college educated. He wasn't. I ignored him with my high tech solutions. Didn't matter that he owned his own construction company and had for years.

So, I continued to mop the basement after every rain until I bought a $5 piece of plastic pipe and stuck it on the downspout. Problem solved.

[JBW1949]

“Never piss on an electric fence...”

[Fresh Wind]

Shut up!!

[HotKat]

While Daddy was assisting me painting the exterior of a fixer upper house, he was of the opinion that I was being a little too meticulous, working at a very slow rate. I have used his advice throughout my life: “It’s not a piece of fine furniture.”

[Bryanw92]

(When holding the flashlight during auto repairs) “Don’t hold the light where my hand was. Hold it where my hand needs to be.”

Taught me to pay attention and learn the skills even when I’m just doing the unskilled part of the job.

[mad_as_he$$]

Stolen!

[TADSLOS]

[dfwgator]

“Lord loves a workin’ man...Don’t trust Whitey.....See a doctor and get rid of it.”

[SandRat]

You boke it, you get fix it.

Watch close and I’ll teach you how.

[Chode]

the easy way is the wrong way, and the hard way is the right way, but it's still easier to do it the right way the first time cause you only have to do it once

[ChildOfThe60s]

To thine own self be true, and it follows like the night the day that thou canst be false to any man.

A favorite quote of his with a depth of meaning.

[VRW Conspirator]

“To be a good engineer, you have to have a sense of the absurd.”

“In times of trouble, preserve your integrity”

Learned how to say bastards with a proper New York accent: “Stoo-pid Bah-stids”

[phil1750]

“If you’re ever arrested, the law says you’re entitled to one phone call. Don’t bother calling here however.” (Dad was an attorney)

[PROCON]

Circa. 1973: "Don't EVER vote for those democratic SOB's."

True story.

[Polyxene]

To be a good liar, you have to have a good memory.

[bergmeid]

Walk with God.