Saturday, September 01, 2001

Marc

You've got to love Dads and their infinite knowledge of fixing/cleaning/betterering (I know, it's a made up word) things. Spent the past few hours washing and waxing my car with the Pops. Good time. The guy's just going over the whole thing, taking this piece off, wiping it down, saying things like "you know you've really got to watch this in here, right around the gas nozzle, that'll rust your car before you know it if you don't wipe it down", and on and on. Doubt that anyone I know will ever be as knowledgeable as our dads all seem to be. Ask anyone. We all have dads that rock as far as taking care of things.

Do you know how to barter? Probably not. I go into buy something and pretty much walk out paying exactly what they want me to pay. Dads- they don't. "I'll buy it for half of what you're selling it for." Salesmen always say yes. Dads just know what's going on. Wish we all could be dads.