re: Most impressive thing you watched your dad do

quote:

---

Seen him make 3 holes in one.

---

I think your dad might be a Korean dictator. So many holes in one.

We didn’t have many fireworks for Christmas but dad wasn’t gonna let that get us down.

Dude got his oxy/acetylene torch and filled a balloon up with gas. It was a big arse balloon too.

He stood back maybe 5-10 feet and shot it with a Roman candle. Damn thing was powerful enough to blow his hat off his head.

It was this moment that I realized all of my dads wild stories where probably true.

So many things but watching him gut a deer in less than minute was pretty damn impressive.

Jumped off a bluff about 30-40 feet up into a river to save my 5 year old sister who had somehow gotten past the safety rope and was being taken down current fairly fast. He got her though.

This is the thread where we learn that everyone’s dad was a super soldier ninja badass, and I’m here for it

Dad refused to go to the emergency room so I watched my grandad dig a piece of steel out of my dad. They were hammering on something and dad caught a piece of shrapnel.

Get up at 5:30 to deliver mail on a rural route of 137 miles round trip, six days a week, no vacation, only off for a few national holidays. And never once, let me repeat that....never once did I ever hear him complain.

4 patents for Shell Oil, 2 went commercial

Just a humble, honest man who wanted to take care of his kids and family.

My dad worked at the railroad all his career and was cross trained in a lot of skilled trades over the years. He could do electric work, welding, auto mechanics , carpentry etc. Anything that went wrong around the house or any vehicles we had when i was growing up, he could fix. When i bought my first house which was somewhat of a fixer upper he fixed everything. Probably around my house the hardest thing i seen him fix was a garage door I tore up off the rails and couldn't fix myself. At the time I didn't think I needed him to fix anything again. He was around 60.

I seen him weld a rusted Wrangler jeep frame where the swing arm was tore off the frame.

Probably the most impressive thing i seen him do that i didn't know he could do when i was grown was back a trailer at a 90 degree angle down a 100 foot narrow ally in traffic off a city street without making any corrections real fast . The people there were like WTF.

The first amazing but scary thing I remember him do when I was about 3 or 4 years old was he'd bought a cj5 new before i was born and we were riding around one night looking at Christmas lights in the Osborne house area of Cantrell in Little Rock after a winter storm. He drove up a steep snow hill on the edge of the Arkansas river. Alot of the main roads was treated so we were in 2x4. At the time, going back home, we got off in a new hilly development. I thought we were going to end up in the river and drown b/c we were sliding backwards . When he got out and locked it in 4x4 I was afraid id never see him again. Then we went on home. Overlook Dr turning on to Timberlake Dr before it was all built to be exact on the map . As a Kid, looking at that with no trees , you think your about to die.