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re: Name something crazy your dad had you do growing up
Posted on 12/9/21 at 5:55 pm to SUB
Posted on 12/9/21 at 5:55 pm to SUB
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Every summer my dad would order a truck load of sand to be dumped in our yard and instruct me to distribute the sand to the "low spots" in the yard. I'd spend the next couple days shoveling sand into a wheelbarrow and finding low spots and smoothing sand over them with a rake.
My dad believed in keeping us on the end of a shovel as much as possible, and make any other household chore as hard as possible. He though if we were made to do a lot of manual labor we would go to college and get a office job. Worst ever was when he decided we needed to insulate the attic in South TX during the middle of August.
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Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:03 pm to EA6B
Haul hay in the summers, split our own wood in the winter and work at IP as a welder’s helper on school vacations..Baw home schooling
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:06 pm to CAD703X
My brother and I had to dig the holes for septic tanks every time we moved.
The holes for the tank we’re pretty fun but the field lines were boring as hell.
The holes for the tank we’re pretty fun but the field lines were boring as hell.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:13 pm to Large Farva
I remember one time my rich spoiled cousin stayed with us for the summer. We had fried fish one night and she dumped almost the entire bottle of ketchup on her plate. She dipped maybe 2 pieces of fish in it. My dad made her eat every last bit of ketchup off the plate before she could get up.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:15 pm to CAD703X
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This post was edited on 12/10/21 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:18 pm to Ingeniero
quote:No son has ever been able to hold it steady enough.
Holding the flashlight for my dad made me the man I am today
It just isn’t physically possible.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:28 pm to CAD703X
My dad made me go to seedy bars with him to fill the cigarette machines.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:38 pm to djangochained
quote:I wasn't going to eat an eatable tonight, but feel like I have to after reading this.
My dad would put weed in ziploc bags and put them under the soles of my shoes when we would travel by plane
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:47 pm to CAD703X
Trimming the hedges with a chainsaw at 7am while I was still acid tripping from the night before
Posted on 12/9/21 at 6:59 pm to CAD703X
Make Bloody Mary
Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:08 pm to thotpocket
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Ours didn't even have brakes
I don’t think they put brakes on them
Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:09 pm to Darth_Vader
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hat sort of milk jug did he give you? When I was a kid we used old milk jugs for lawnmower gas and never had one dissolve.
I know for a fact that gas will eat through a Solo cup. We were camping in the neighborhood woods and wanted gas to start a fire but promised my Dad we wouldn’t use gas. After he went to sleep, I snuck to the house and poured some in a solo cup to bring back to the campsite. Halfway back, I noticed the cup getting slippery and then all the gas fell from the bottom. Ate straight through the cup. In the morning, I reeked of gasoline and got in trouble.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:15 pm to wadebrfd
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We were moving houses and my dad had a mattress in the bed of the truck that blew out the bed a couple times. So after the second time, he looked at me and said, “you’re gonna have to lay on it.” Keep in mind I was about 10 years old and maybe 65-70 lbs soaking wet. I looked at him and said, “it’s gonna blow me away too!”That’s when my dad just looked at me with a straight face and said, “Son, you can’t be a p***y all your life.” I feel like I became a man that day.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:19 pm to beebefootballfan
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Heck according to my dad over thanksgiving, I still haven't learned how to hold it right in 30 something years.
Dude, I understand. I’ve apparently never squires the skill of holding the light correctly. “Keep the light on my work, dammit son. What’s wrong with you? “
Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:24 pm to RedlandsTiger
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I just took his dad playbook and did the opposite.
If you can’t be a shining example, be a glaring warning! Me and my brothers did the opposite of what our parents did.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:30 pm to CAD703X
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Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:32 pm to HeadSlash
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My dad made me go to seedy bars with him to fill the cigarette machines.
Did this too , except it was with my grandfather, who had some payphones in some very seedy bars .
Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:58 pm to CAD703X
Had me check a spark plug wire and whether it was sparking by putting an “insulated tester” in the end. Lit me up like a Christmas tree. 
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Posted on 12/9/21 at 7:59 pm to CAD703X
At 10 or 11 years old He would leave me in a 2 acre corn field with a hoe. Have me drive the truck while he picked up hay.
Posted on 12/9/21 at 8:08 pm to Interweb Cowboy
Mine was a farmer, had a field that had one small low spot and had a rod with about 10” yards of water in the furrow. At 10, he had me use a gallon can and scoop the water out the furrow to put on top the row so the field would dry out quicker bc there was rain in the forecast and he needed to get the field prepped.
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