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From:
Susan Harrop
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
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I wrote this for my father as a Christmas Gift in 2016. Since then there have been other 'cool' things, my father did for me, but I still like this list.
Ten Totally Cool Things My Father Did For Me:
1. He gave me a ‘magic’ stick pony for Christmas when I was three. Of course, I believed it really was magic and rode it across a very busy intersection to go get cookies at the gas station. Since I survived I didn’t understand why Mom made such a huge fuss, but I was the only child in my family to get a stick pony (magic or otherwise). Even the grandbabies didn’t get them.
2. He taught me how to scramble eggs when I was so little I had to stand on the second step on the step stool to reach the stove. We made toast, too. It was the first time I ever cooked and I still remember how very proud I was of making breakfast.
3. He convinced me that I really, really couldn’t take my little sister, Sarah, to the post office and have her delivered to a family that didn’t already have a little girl. Okay, that one took a little doing, but I was five, had been an only child forever, and we had previously had many lengthy discussions about how I wanted a little brother.
4. He taught me that zero is a place holder so you can tell the difference between 1 and 10, which is a completely accurate explanation of zero, even if my second grade teacher didn’t think so. Afterwards, he reassured me that zero really is a place holder and was a perfectly fine answer to the question. I still only got a 90, but we had ice cream as a consolation prize.
5. He taught me that the best way to end a nose bleed is to tilt your head back and squeeze your nose shut. He also didn’t tell Mom about me punching the boy who said I was too girly for the jungle bars.
6. He opened a checking account for me in college and taught me how to balance a checkbook. Then he covered the bounced checks, spent hours with me unsnarling my checkbook, re-taught me how to balance it, and trusted me enough to try again. By the time I graduated, I earned money balancing other students’ checkbooks.
7. He forced me to take typing in 7th grade. Seriously, he would not sign my course choices until I dropped my writing elective and added typing. He later similarly forced me to take cooking, sewing, and home economics for a semester each. I hated him in 7th and 8th grade. But I went to college able to type my own papers, prepare my own meals, mend clothes, clean anything (and I do mean anything), do most of my own minor home repairs, and actually live on my own without crashing and burning. Also, I got paid by other students whose fathers were not as wise as mine.
8. He got me the best tool chest ever when I moved into my own house. It has everything I need to do most of my own home repairs.
9. He installed a hall light with a motion detector in my guest hall. It’s great because I can leave the light on when I leave my study and it will go out by itself. It’s just something cool he did for me the last time he visited. That was also the visit I came home and he’d completely cleaned out my garage and put up shelves and made it so I could actually use it for parking.
10. Taught me that I could learn something from anyone, and I do mean anyone I come in contact with. It’s a lesson that has served me very well throughout my life.
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