re: Tell Me About your Dad

Dad was a classic underachiever. He excelled in high school football and baseball without even trying, then went into the Navy as a radar operator during Vietnam. He came home, got a great job at Southwestern Bell in Dallas, then married my mentally-unstable mother and things went downhill from there.

He became an alcoholic in the 1980s, couldn't hold a job and never really tried to have a relationship with me. He finally drank himself to death in 2015 and, like a few others in here have said, I regret the fact that we didn't have a relationship or do "father and son" stuff.