anyone else think their dad is really smart

[Gate Opener]

I tell you whenever I have a question I can call my dad and it seems like he always has the perfect solution. I have learned alot from him. He is in his 70's and still going strong. I am trying to find out all I can while he is still around. He also has great stories(real) and can tell them like no one else. The only thing he doesn't know about is computers and I think that is only because he doesn't have one. In my eyes he is like John Wayne only better. Anybody else think their dad is great? (Hubby is really smart also)

 

[redfornow]

Not just Dad's there are some great mommas out there.
Those of us that got em need to do just like you did an talk about em.
Lot of great average normal everyday people out there that will never be in the news never get any fanfare.
Just giants to those that love em and are loved by em.

Thanks for the post...

MD

 

[*Cowgirl*]

My parents always have and have had a good solution for an problem. IMO they are geniuses.

 

[boone]

My father must have been pretty sharp because he's been dead almost 38 years and my mother still worships the ground he walked on. - :heart: Boone

 

[Scotty]

My father was the sharpest pencil in the draw. Hands down.

 

[Tealduck]

My dad went on to Glory three years ago this month but I always thought my dad was one of the smartest people I had ever met. It used to amaze me that he could do any kind of math in his head and it would be right. I sure miss him, his knowledge and stories. The Gunslinger and I are proud to have had him as our dad.

Duck

 

[Wewild]

Dad was a little rough. He wasn't much on emotion and never showed fear or elation. He worked as hard as the day is long. He didn't fall far from the tree on these.

One thing I've noticed with him in the condition he's in now is that he reaches out and touches me on the back which he never did before as a show of affection. It's nice but I always new it.

He depends on me to keep up his farms now. He taught me all he could.

 

[rattler]

Wewild my Dad is much the same.When He worked he dident believe in missing a day he had to be realy sick not to go to work.Never grunt's when he was sick very seldom complained.Dad would not talk bad about anybody he always said if you cant say somrthing good about somebody dont say nothing.He has helped me alot over the year's.


rattler

 

[bigbull338]

Dad was a little rough. He wasn't much on emotion and never showed fear or elation. He worked as hard as the day is long. He didn't fall far from the tree on these.

One thing I've noticed with him in the condition he's in now is that he reaches out and touches me on the back which he never did before as a show of affection. It's nice but I always new it.

He depends on me to keep up his farms now. He taught me all he could.

my dad was very smart as well.he was a very stern man never showing any emotions.ive seen him tackle jobs machinics wouldnt touch.an when he go though the job would be done right.i learned everything i could from him.

 

[Alice]

I miss my Daddy every minute of every day. He died in 1982. He was the kind of Daddy that everyone should have had...he loved us kids with every breath he breathed, and he worshipped our mother. He was gentle, yet firm and he encouraged our individuality. He and my mother made a great team...

Alice

 

[NamVet_Farmer44]

my Father never came back from WWII, so I always had to look to my grandfather for his advice, and he was sure a smart man...he couldn't read much and he could write only a few things, but he had a great mind for figuring problems out...he was always thinking up something new to improve the farm...might not have been as smart as some people when it comes to books, but he was a genius when it came down to anything on the farm...he tried to teach me everything he knew, but some things just can't be taught, I reckon you just got to learn them things on your own

 

[Jogeephus]

My dad always had terrific advice - if I'd only listened more - except for one time. Neighbor offered me a job with his company selling a new type TV setup. He called it cable. He offered me $250 a week (bunch of money at time) PLUS fifty cents per month for each subsriber I got. Dad said, "son, think about it, who in their right mind is gonna pay to watch television!" Unfortunately, this was one of the few times I actually listened to him.

 

[J&T Farm]

My Dad got a whole lot smarter back in the seven years it took me to get from 14 to 21yrs old. ;-)

 

[IluvABbeef]

My dad is smart, no question. He always has some sort of little invention to make things easier to handle cattle or run machinery, and likes to show me these things either that or ask me to help him do some fixing...yeah, and he's always fixin' something, either a project on the way, or else doing some maintenance.

He's taught me a lot too, with things like cattle, and how to drive, and the aspect of running a business a.k.a. the farm.

Sometimes I think people think he's a police officer (he's not, actually), just cause of the way he carries himself and the way he takes notices of things. (BTW, he's involved in the military through the air cadet squadron and says he likes working with people that are going to become soldiers--now THAT'S something to be proud of!)

So all I can say is that I'm proud to have him and call him my Dad, in all honesty.

 

[HOSS]

My Dad is mostly a genius. He barely made it through the 8th grade before he had to quit school and go to work on the family farm. Without an education he worked hard as a backhoe operator, farmer and also as the water treatment specialist for our small town water treatment facility.Using the training that he got in water treatment he landed a job with GM as maintenance on their water treatment equipment. He took every hour of education that they offered and became a journeyman pipefitter, then electrician then specialized in robotics installation and programming. He retired after 34 years. He retired on more money then I make and I do pretty well. He did this by hard work and smart work. He was the "inventor" for GM. He invented pumps, timers and other gadgets for which they paid him a % of the yearly cost savings derived from his gadgets.

He thinks things through slowly from every angle before making a move. That is a big change from this quick paced, do-it-now, micrwave world we live in.

 

[NamVet_Farmer44]

He offered me $250 a week (bunch of money at time) :

My first real job...I was getting about $1.05 an hour :lol: I could work a darn 60 hour week, still working on saturday and sunday...and still only got a $63 paycheck...and I thought I was making good money at that time

 

[rkm]

I miss my dad every day, and I'm 65 years old. If I'm half the man my dad was my children are very lucky.

 

[GMN]

I realize now how smart my Dad and Mom really were, although they are both dead now, my Mom for 18 years, and my Dad for 14 years, still seems surrel to me at times, seems they died too young, and over the years I sure could have used their advice, or just to sit and call them on the phone to talk about this and that. You don't know how lucky you are to still have a parent alive.

GMN

 

[Farmer Z]

My old daddy taught me a couple of valuable lessons. 1) marriage works best when it's one man/one woman/one lifetime, and, 2) get up and go to work every day - don't try to figure out some creative way to become a slacker such as leaching off others or getting on disability (when you ain't disabled). Those examples have served me well. He's 73 and still working.

 

[backhoeboogie]

I realize now how smart my Dad and Mom really were, although they are both dead now, my Mom for 18 years, and my Dad for 14 years, still seems surrel to me at times, seems they died too young, and over the years I sure could have used their advice, or just to sit and call them on the phone to talk about this and that. You don't know how lucky you are to still have a parent alive.

GMN

I took mine for granted when they were here. Didn't realize ALL of the value they provide. No matter what happened, I could count on my Dad. Then I lost him in '93.