Jul 31, 2009 at 10:53 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 34

superpiper

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Anybody else here would like to have a beer and a chat with the old man?

Mine passed away a few years age and sometimes i'd just like to take the old bugger for pint, talk about **** i was always to knotted up to talk about....
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Jul 31, 2009 at 11:40 PM Post #2 of 34
I would love to have chatted about the world today and his thoughts on technology and the like. He might have had a chance to graduate from using CDs to having his computer as a music server.
 
Jul 31, 2009 at 11:44 PM Post #3 of 34
Mine died when I was five....who knows? Did I ever really know the man, or just an idea of 'father'?

My dad's death made our lives more economically hard for sure. Not his fault, just a fact. We were poor I guess. Free school meals, free government-funded clothing etc...

But I'm not sure now I'd want or need one. A dad that is...

Seeing others' dads, I was pretty pleased not to have one for awhile when I was younger. I dunno, you make what you can of what you have.....
 
Jul 31, 2009 at 11:50 PM Post #4 of 34
I love spending time with mine, I don't get much alone time with him but when I do it's pretty nice.
 
Jul 31, 2009 at 11:56 PM Post #5 of 34
My situation is odd. My father was a very negative person with a high temper and he suffers from mental illness. I no longer see him. It is very difficult living with a mentally ill person especially as a child when you have no idea what is going on. So I wish him well but it's best for me not to see him since we were never really close anyway.
 
Aug 1, 2009 at 1:00 AM Post #7 of 34
My dad passed away 20 years ago. We weren't really close when I was a very young, but we became closer as I got older after I graduated from High School. He was a WWII Army veteran and I remember how proud he was when he and my mother came to Orlando to see me graduate from US Navy basic training. And I remember how glad I was to have them there.

I miss him dearly.

--Jerome
 
Aug 1, 2009 at 1:47 AM Post #8 of 34
Mine's an odd feller, but good at his core.

Think Lefty Frizzell:
"I'd walk for miles,
Cry or Smiles,
For my Momma and Daddy. . .".


Dad'd be all for that.
 
Aug 1, 2009 at 2:30 AM Post #9 of 34
A lot of my friends have lost their fathers, I feel quite blessed to still have mine around.

Last year I got to crawl through the sagebrush with him and sit right next to him when he shot an elk 387yds away across a canyon on his 81st birthday. We are leaving to go to Wyoming elk hunting on the day after his 82nd this year. (My turn to shoot this year.)

We play pool competitively together, and have a great time. I don't think I know anyone who dislikes him. He plays duplicate bridge, and though he didn't get to play against them, he's been to tournaments where Bill Gates and Warren Buffett were playing.

He narrowly missed having a stroke earlier this year, a piece of plaque broke off the inside of his carotid and went into his right eye, taking most of the vision in that eye. It pisses him off, as he miscues a lot when we play pool, (no depth perception), and he probably won't be shooting a rifle much anymore, he says he's too old to learn to shoot left-handed, so I'm not sure what we'll do next year for his turn.

I was a typical teen-age snot, and I kick myself now when I think of the years I wasted not doing fun sh!t with him.
 
Aug 1, 2009 at 4:20 AM Post #10 of 34
Since I moved out (in 2000) my dad and I more like friends than father/son. The father/son relationship is still there, but there is also a really nice mutual respect. I love hanging out with them. I really enjoy our time together, especially on the golf course...
 
Aug 1, 2009 at 4:37 AM Post #11 of 34
It kind of touches my heart a bit because of how proud my dad is of my brothers and I and how he works hard for our family. He'll probably be working into his 60's to help my younger brother with college. I dream that a decade from now, I'll be 5 years out of college and that I'll come up North and we'll buy a brand new boat (that we could never afford because the whole 3 kids thing) and have one heck of a fun time.
 
Aug 1, 2009 at 6:41 AM Post #13 of 34
I haven't met my dad for almost a year. Gonna come back too see him in the forthcoming Christmas. We don't talk much when we're together but I always have great respect and admiration for him.
 
Aug 1, 2009 at 6:47 AM Post #14 of 34
My dad passed on when I was 20, that was 12 years ago. I was just out of college. He worked hard to give us all he could. Now that I am pretty well settled and have moved to the US, I really wish he was around to enjoy the fruit of his labor. He would have made a great grandad to my son and a proud one at that.

As we progress in life and age, voids such as this leave us with a sense on incompletness and what if feeling. And soon we will be filing our father's shoes.
 
Aug 1, 2009 at 8:31 AM Post #15 of 34
Mine is still around (so is my mother), and I have a great relationship with them both.
We live 150 miles apart, so I do not see him that often. But we talk on the phone weekly, and visit each other from time to time.
 

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