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What was your highlight as a dad?


HandplanerSep 20, 2005 6:30pm
My son said I should join this forum (we're traiding roles - he's becoming the techno-weenie, and I am unweeniefying),... so, lets do something fun: I'd like to read dad stories that make make me spray milk out my nose, or make me shake my head in agreemant as I read, or offer insite into this job we have. Who's got a good one?

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CheezitAppleSep 21, 2005 4:09am
Hey Handplaner. Good to see you.

I'll take a shot:
My youngest son and I were taking Stella, our 9mo lab to the vet for a look. Stella wasn't an experienced car rider, but seemed to love the idea when I loaded her into the middle seat in the van. My 4 year old son sat in the wayback, as usual. About halfway into the 20 minute ride, Boy querys: WHAT is that SMELL!? I got a whiff and looked over my shoulder at Stella walking around in a huge smelly steamer. She looking anxious, sporting poo boots and dragging her leash through it back and forth. I think I said GAH! and whipping my head back and forth to the road and the dog fouling the upolstery and the integral child seats. It was so bad, so smelly and foul I had to start laughing. I opened all the windows and hunkered for the rest of the ride.
Boy is quiet. We pull into the lot at the vet, I scoot around and open the slider. Stella leaps out toward me (that 'jump into my arms' trick used to be funny) and I manage to loop her collar with a thumb while surveying the damage.
Boy stumbles past me, lays his little head against his forearm against the car in the next spot and laments, "JESUS KWISTE on the KWOSS!"
In tears, I try to clean Stella for her appointment with 250 baby wipes. (I recommend the unscented ones, as I imagine they are less likely to make you gag when combined with dog crap).

We made our appointment. I'm sure they put a mark in our record for being slovenly owners.

HandplanerSep 21, 2005 3:41pm
>JESUS KWISTE on the KWOSS
I like your youngest already. Please ask him if I may use this line from now on. How old is he now?
Hilarious story CheezitApple!
As I thought about this assignment, all I could come up with was an epiphany about being a dad. Our son swaggers to a different drummer. He's got 45 lbs of talent, and 5 lbs of initiative to use it,... maybe less. As Freud would have it, he & I got on like cat & mouse through most of his `coming of age.' I told him I didn't have expectations for him - that he was free to travel whatever path he chose. I believed it. However, I didn't realize it was an imperative for me that he choose a path & do something. The world was his for the taking,... what was he waiting for? I thought of the kids that didn't have the smarts he had, the kids that didn't have the opportunity he had,....
Finally I matured & realized that it was indeed his choice, and if he chose to chill out, that was a viable choice. My goal for him was happiness. I assumed he needed to travel a path to get there: he didn't. His happiness was within. It still is.
He's 23 now. He's happy. He's not setting the world on fire, but he pays him own bills, has good friends, and is fun to be with.

This story is no-where near as funny as "JESUS KWISTE on the KWOSS",... but I didn't have to clean the minivan to tell it.

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dragonheadJan 12, 2006 2:45am
Great stories. Mine is a one-liner.
Christmas just past - my 3 year old boy has been learning Christmas songs at school and treats us to his rendition of "Away in a manger" - "The little Lord Cheese is asleep in his head", apparently.


What was your highlight as a dad?

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