re: Most impressive thing you watched your dad do

Good God I forgot about the flying hubcaps.

Those were the days.

Always being available regardless of what stress he has in his life.

That is impressive, my old man did something similar, came home on a Friday in 7th grade and our entire backyard was dug up. My dad was on a backhoe that belonged to my uncle with a beer in his hand. My mom went crazy, he told her he was building a L shaped concrete pool for her since her name began with a L. We still swim in that pool to this day and that was in 1998. He did everything himself except for pouring the concrete base(he built the forms). I dont know if he was lying to my mom but he said it cost him about 12-15k, and this is a pretty big pool.

Saw my dad catch crawdads bare footed with his toes. He could spread his big toe out and catch them between the big toe and the one next to it.

Just his work ethic in general is fkn crazy. Always has been. He's 64 and retired but he still works his arse off doing whatever projects he can, building things, helping other people with stuff, etc. His body has taken a beating over the years, he's had knee replacement surgery, rotator cuff repair surgery, and intestinal hernia surgery all in the last 5 or 6 years, and he still can outwork most people, while crushing natty lights.

He can build damn near anything, using mostly whatever he has on hand. He built a slide for my nieces a couple of weeks ago that goes from their house on a hill that goes down to Lake Martin. Built with wood and plastic signs from his Bonnie plant farm days, engineered simply from his mind.

I don’t know if it was the most impressive thing I’ve seen him do but I remember he cut his hand open once and needed stitches. The hospital he went to was pretty was pretty shitty so when they deadened his hand for the stitches, it didn’t work well. At this point he just wanted to get TF outta there so he told them to stitch him up without the lidocaine.

Attach a severed finger for a tree guy who cut through it working in the yard. Did the whole thing on our breakfast table while I held the guys arm (I was 12 or so). Stitches, splint, meds, the whole thing. Had everything in the fridge and a drawer.

Also saw him crack a chest, fail to save the patient, and then tell the family.

He was an ER doc, thankfully.