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re: Most impressive thing you watched your dad do
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:22 pm to CAD703X
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:22 pm to CAD703X
My Dad was a veterinarian who had a large animal practice. I was with him on a call to save a Shetland pony mare whose colt had been about half born and died. I watched Dad use a pocket knife to cut the stillborn colt in half and turn the unborn half around to deliver it. Took about 20 minutes and saved the mare.
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Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:26 pm to RebRxV
He would toss pennies & aspirin in the air and shoot them with a .22 rifle.
(One at a time of course)
(One at a time of course)
This post was edited on 8/17/26 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:29 pm to CAD703X
My dad was a career Navy man. We had a sailboat and sailed out of Lake Pontchartrain to Ship Island. We were anchored and a Squall came out of nowhere. This was way before any kind of internet or cell phone. My dad, who had quit smoking years earlier, was obviously nervous and pulled out his secret hidden cigarettes that were to be used in case of emergency. He lit a cigarette and put out three more anchors. We made it through the storm even though we managed to get the keel stuck for a little bit. The barbecue pit on the back of the boat never stopped cooking and the ribs were ready when it was over. That man was calm under pressure but I was scared shitless when he lit up a cigarette. After it was over, of course, he reminded me to never tell my mother about this. I lost him a few weeks ago to cancer, and that memory has always served me well under pressure.
This post was edited on 8/17/26 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:32 pm to CAD703X
Went to rehab, kicked heroin and crack to be my dad. When I turned 19, he went back to partying lol
He became a Christian about 2-3 years before he died.
RIP Wildman
He became a Christian about 2-3 years before he died.
RIP Wildman
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:35 pm to CAD703X
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Most impressive thing you watched your dad do
I'll sit this one out!
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:42 pm to CAD703X
Nobody could physically outwork my dad.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:47 pm to baybeefeetz
My dad could
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:51 pm to CAD703X
I watched him build an entire sunroom add-on and pool deck on the weekends over like 2 months. Multi-level deck with built-in seating, sunroom walls, roof, windows and tile. I helped as much as a 9 year old could, but I don't remember another adult helping him. His methodical efficiency and just top of dome know-how with stuff like that always impressed me but unfortunately eluded me.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:51 pm to CAD703X
Now I know why the OT sucks so bad, a lot of you had shitty fathers.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:52 pm to Sun God
Packed his family up and moved away from his hometown (when all his relatives were there and they all counseled him to not leave). Left an almost sure lower middle-class dead-end life and took a chance working at a NASA contractor, then met some good folks and became really into computers. Retired at 60 the richest person in his family by far. No telling what I would have turned out to be if we had not left - none of my relatives amounted to much career wise. All stuck in the same dead-end loop.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:53 pm to GRTiger
The best piece of advice my dad ever gave me was “I know how to fix most things because I’ve broken just about everything”
He is my hero and my son is named after him
He is my hero and my son is named after him
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:55 pm to CAD703X
We were dove hunting one afternoon and he was looking down putting a chaw in. He could tell by the shadow on the ground a dove was flying over. He raised his gun with one hand, chaw in the other, and shot it about 30 yards away from the hay bail. I was about 7 and of course he sent me to fetch the bird.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 5:01 pm to CAD703X
He raised a family as a man of God. Also he could hoop. Never will forget when me and some old friends were playing pick up games at the rec and he came in after a workout and toasted us. We were all decent athletes in our early 20s, he was in his 50s and did not miss. He wore those big goggles they wore in the 80s, long socks, shirt tucked in over a respectable beer belly. Never called a foul. Just bucket after bucket. He did play quite a bit all the way into his 40s, but he hadn’t picked up a basketball in several years at that point. It was as humbling as it was impressive.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 5:10 pm to CAD703X
Just a couple of months ago, im trying to break a bolt so I can get the rotors off of my car to replace them. Im trying everything, and i'm just sure if I try too hard this car is gonna slide off of the jack. My dad slides in there and has it off in 5 minutes. For the record my dad is closing in on 70, I'm in my mid 40s, but I'm in the gym and I run multiple times a week, fell better than I did at any point in my 30s and am healthy as a horse other than moderately high cholesterol.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 5:27 pm to kingbob
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Cut down a tree with an axe handle. The head broke off the axe, but he was so mad that he just wailed on the tree with the handle until it finally fell over.
i understand
Posted on 8/17/26 at 5:27 pm to JodyPlauche
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I'll sit this one out!
professionals are not allowed in this thread
Posted on 8/17/26 at 5:35 pm to CAD703X
My dad uprooted us from North Louisiana and moved us to Huntsville in the 80s. The impressive thing was…he didn’t need to. But he refused to be the type of person he would have to be to make things work in Monroe.
I didn’t know this for decades.
I didn’t know this for decades.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 5:36 pm to CAD703X
Drink a gallon of VSOP in 36 hours. That shite really was wild.
Fortunately he hasnt had a drop to drink in over 10 years and has replaced his drinking compulsion with a healthy eating compulsion and basically eats like a rabbit these days.
Fortunately he hasnt had a drop to drink in over 10 years and has replaced his drinking compulsion with a healthy eating compulsion and basically eats like a rabbit these days.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 6:14 pm to CAD703X
Survive a moonshine still explosion and the resulting barn roof that fell in on him.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 6:17 pm to Hussss
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drinking enough white russians
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