Posted on 06/19/2016 8:18:25 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
What is the best advice you have heard from your dad or any dad ?
A friends dad always had advice for us guys. He told us to be careful around girls.
He was pretty explicit, saying don’t mess around, if they get pregnant your life is messed up. He said some girls target guys like us. We grew up in an upper middle class suburb, and to lower class girls, we were their ticket out of a lower class life, he told us.
Hold out for “quality females” as he put it because these are the only girls worth getting married to.
He said aim high, set high goals. If you shoot for the moon, you will at least hit the ceiling, and achieve some good things in life.
“Let the clutch out!!!”
“.45 beats for of a kind in any poker game.”
Could well be, but I remember my Dad saying it to me when I was about 14 years old. We were waiting for my Mom to come out of a drug store, sitting in the car. A very pregnant lady walk by in front of us. That’s when he said it to me. He may have stolen it, but I’ve never forgotten it.
Never trade a car with leather for one without....
“Happy 18th Birthday”. From now on, I pay tuition and you pay everything else.
Truly I have been blessed to have a dad who could fix practically anything.
From the time I was old enough to be coherent, I did nothing but watch and learn and ask questions.
I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the man.
I greatly admire his depression era personality and ability to stay calm in the most dire of circumstances.
People from this era have an incredibly unique perspective on life.
He’s 88 now and I cherish every day I have left with him.
Happy Father’s day, Pop. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
My dad was a diligent man in all aspects of his life and could fix just about anything. He died too early at age 50. GTH cancer.
When ever we did something stupid, he would say “that’ll learn ya,” and never buy used underwear.. If you use an equalizer make sure they don’t take it from you.. And, you got in trouble with out my help...
I was a seminarian for 7 years, until I decided to leave.
I was reluctant to tell my parents, thinking I’d let them down. I remember my father saying to me “You’ll never let me down - I’ll always be proud of you. What I want for you in life is for you to be happy.”
Sometimes there’s fishing and sometimes there’s catching
First thing you always do when you get your paycheck is pay your insurance premiums first.
“My dad was a drunk, a gambler, and a womanizer. I worshipped him.”
Son, if you’re gonna dumb, you gotta be tough.
My dad was calm as well. He would have been 96. I lost him 35 years ago... Loved that man.. Forever...
He said:
"People get the kind of government they deserve."
"islam is the most dangerous religion on the face of the earth." (Told to me in the late 1990s).
He told me a long time ago not to believe everything I see in the news. Now I’m the one who has to tell him.
“Learned how to say bastards with a proper New York accent: “Stoo-pid Bah-stids”
LOL!
I thank God every day for my 1930’s Bronx accent courtesy of my parents. Its a great conversation starter and ice breaker. Especially calling the ladies “Kid”.
Back when ethnic names weren’t really insults.
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