Monday, June 12, 2006

A Couple of Questions XXI

In honor of Father's Day (and with the help of the Woman's Day magazine I read):

1. What is something that you have learned from your father?

2. What is a story or something funny that your father is determined to never let you live down?

Happy Father's Day, Dad - I love you so much - you are the best!!!!

3 comments:

StephieAnne said...

1. I remember a certain drive back from Central Oregon in which mom and dad were trying to define popularity and how to achieve it. Basically, what Michele and I came away with was that is much more important to be respected than to be the "coolest person of the moment" - and that the best way to achieve respect is to be kind to others, try your hardest, and believe in yourseslf. Thanks Dad!

2. Dad loves to go on and on about how anytime we went to a restaurant offering a salad bar, Michele and I would request one and then walk away with a small mound of lettuce, a pile of croutons and dressing and completely waste the $8 they spent on each of us....(can't say my choices at the salad bar have changed much, either, sadly - however, the quantities have....)

HollieHobbie said...

1. Dad would say "You meet the same people coming down as you did going up". It made sense at the time but now I am totally confused by it as I read it in print. I think he was trying to say like "as you succeed don't burn your bridges"....maybe....
Also, the ever-passed down : something about having a good reputation. I guess I should've written them down.
2. Oh, he won't let me live down when I was in the Virgin Islands and a guy asked me, the gullible tourist, if I wanted to get my picture taken (with my camera) with his donkey, and I said "sure" then he charged us $5.00! and I paid it! I was 18 and so naive.

HollieHobbie said...

I wondered what 21 in roman numerals looked like.