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Father’s Day

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Amer­i­cans have set aside today as the spe­cific day of the year we honor the fathers among us. Though my own father passed away a cou­ple of years ago, I thought I’d take a moment to share some of the things he taught me.

• No mat­ter how hard you want it to, money does not grow on trees.
• Respect is never given away, only earned. And the eas­i­est way to earn it, is to give it.
• Chang­ing the oil & fil­ter in your car can be a reward­ing and bond­ing expe­ri­ence between a father and his child. And when it’s not, at least all the yelling and swear­ing should enter­tain the neighbors.
• Plumb­ing is a noble art, best left to the pro­fes­sion­als. As what you can destroy in min­utes fix over sev­eral hours, they can fix in one (though they’ll prob­a­bly charge you for more).
• He really wasn’t kid­ding about that money/tree thing.

Oh and to my faith­ful read­ers out there, feel free to add some­thing your dad taught you in the comments.

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