re: Your dad's favorite catch phrases?

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Only remember shut the door, turn off the lights if you're not staying in that room.

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“You think I’m trying to cool the whole neighborhood?”


Mind you he always kept the house hot as hell and we didn’t live in a neighborhood.

Man, I envy y’all who had a good relationship with your fathers. Mine is always so critical, nothing ever good enough and cuts us down every chance he gets.
You’d think we were frick ups who had been in and out of trouble since we were young but it isn’t the case. We’ve always had jobs and worked and paid the bills best as we could.

But that man could crush a dream. Early on in life I wanted to pursue music, or something with my head, my words. But he just drove into me that if you weren’t sweating and hurting it wasn’t work and I took that to heart and spent my whole life in jobs that to be honest I wasn’t made for.

Not that I was too good for them or anything, but they weren’t making good use of my talents. I guess I learned some humility and how to deal with people and a lot of valuable lessons, but it’s left me somewhere I don’t particularly like, working too much and sacrificing too much time.

I always wonder what might have been if I’d had the guts to try to fly. Might have fallen, sure. But Maybe I’d have gotten out of where I seem to be stuck.

Oh well.

ETA: or maybe he always saw I really wasn’t as good as I thought I was and through it better to clip my wings.