Post by @RickiTarr@beige.party

Okay, I thought I'd share a nice Dad story to even things out a bit.

I was probably 7 years old, and had already been asleep for awhile. My Dad came, and woke us up, and we thought it was morning, but he told us to put on our winter clothes, and come outside. It had snowed quite a bit after we went to bed, so there was a pretty deep layer of snow glistening under the moon. My Dad pulled us around on sleds, and built snowmen with us, until our fingers were numb, and my Mom insisted we come inside. My Mom made us hot lemonade (this is was a hot cinnamon flavored lemonade that she made us when we couldn't afford stuff for hot chocolate), and my Dad unfolded out the pull out bed, and we all snuggled in, and my Dad told us stories he made up, until we fell asleep.

Anyhow, feel free to share, and nice story, if you have one.

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GeePawHill

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

@RickiTarr My dad graduated from high school, the extent of his education. He was--like me--a practicing and well-functioning alcoholic.

He knew Fitzgerald's "translation" of Omar Khayyam's "Rubaiyat" by heart. We would go fishing w/a camper, and after we ran the (illegal) trot-lines, we'd swing a coleman lantern up in a tree, and talk--mostly argument, which he loved--and drink, and play chess.

And he would recite his favorite quatrains from the Rubaiyat.

As you can imagine, I adored him.

Beachbum

@Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org 2 hr. ago

@GeePawHill @RickiTarr Sounds lovely.

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@violenteastcoastcity@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

@GeePawHill @RickiTarr @LoneLocust My doctor just told me a great story about her grandfather. He needed dialysis and went through the Mayo Clinic, so even back in the 80s he was able to have a dialysis machine at home. She thought it was super cool, kinda like Young Frankenstein lmao. Then she says, "Yeah, my favorite memory of Grandpa Chuck, though his name was James, was when we would be in his 75 Chevy and he'd teach me to roll cigarettes. I was like 8."