Happy Father's Day

[Moderator1]

to all the dads out there.

I am not seeing my kids today. I am seeing Foo Fighters, so that works.

My son's girls took him fishing.

 

[Octave]

Happy Father's Day to all you butt dumplings.
Mucho respect for the hardest gig there is.
And also the best club there is.

 

[Webster]

 

[Songbird]

I had Father's Day breakfast with my dad for the first time since probably 1988. We ate at Factor's on Pico. Then we went to The Grove and walked around and he bought a shirt and socks from J. Crew and then we went to Barnes and Noble and I bought him Pearlman's new Lakers book even though Pearlman unfriended me on FB because he's so emotional over anything that isn't fawning praise. Anyhoo, it was strange but nice to spend time with my dad on Father's Day. I drove us around in his new Audi. Nice ride.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

We went to church this morning, then lunch. Then my wife had to drop off my son at weeklong sports camp.

Now I'm relaxing in my recliner, watching golf.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I had Father's Day breakfast with my dad for the first time since probably 1988. We ate at Factor's on Pico. Then we went to The Grove and walked around and he bought a shirt and socks from J. Crew and then we went to Barnes and Noble and I bought him Pearlman's new Lakers book even though Pearlman unfriended me on FB because he's so emotional over anything that isn't fawning praise. Anyhoo, it was strange but nice to spend time with my dad on Father's Day. I drove us around in his new Audi. Nice ride.


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Excellent book. Excellent selection. Glad you're back with your family, sir.

I'm back with family, too. But my father and stepfather, the latter of whom was my father figure, are both no longer with us. Enjoy every chance you get with family, folks. Tough to overemphasize this.

 

[Scout]

Honestly… I wish there was no such thing as Father’s Day. I love being a Dad, but my family just does not get the concept.

All I ask for is to eat at a place of my choice and not get roped into doing work. This never happens. Never.

Today I make a 1 pm reservation for lunch. After exercising and walking the dog, I’m the only person with a brain who can check to see if my daughter is awake. Everyone knew that we needed to leave at 12:30. I told everyone the night before. I wake her up at noon and all hell breaks loose. My daughter cannot get ready in 30 minutes. The next 65 minutes is screaming and crying and begging the restaurant to honor our reservation and we will be 5-10 minutes late. They tell me that’s all I get. My daughter is bawling. Mind you. I have not raised my voice or anything. We can still pull this off. I tell my wife I will drop her at the front door and she can get the table while my daughter composes herself. I go and park around the corner with daughter.

Five minutes later my wife walks by the car. She couldn’t find the place. I dropped her 25 feet from the entrance.

I race to the place on foot to get the table.

Mind you, I had to tell my wife to start getting ready just so her ass could be in a car by 12:30.

Food was great.

I come home and nap.

We are going on a road trip Tuesday so the filthy car needs cleaned. Wife says she is doing it this afternoon. She naps instead.

So I agreed to do the floors of the house tomorrow along with my other yard **** and packing ****.

Guess who is vacuuming and cleaning a car today? Me. She even says she can get a vacuum to do the crevices. Are you kidding me? So I’m sweaty and pissed.

**** Father’s Day.

I swear to Christ I am never spending Father’s Day in my own home again.

It. Always. Disappoints.

****ing always.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Yikes.

 

[WriteThinking]

Happy Father's Day, anyway?

 

[Webster]

I grill almost every Sunday night. So the Father’s Day rule here is that I go over the top in terms of what I want to make/grill for dinner. But everyone has to eat together with no devices and I play no part in the clean up process.

 

[Dyno]

My dad’s been gone for 13 years, so Father’s Day is always sad for me. Every year I try to do something he liked and eat at least one of his favorite foods. It doesn’t take away the sadness but it feels like the right thing to do. It helps that we liked a lot of the same things.

Happy Father’s Day to the dads. Sorry you had such a lousy day, @Scout. Hope the road trip is better than today was.

 

[Songbird]

Food was great.

So it was a good day then.

Happy Father's Day!

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Played golf with my son this morning. Had a 40 minute Facetime with my daughter in France this afternoon. When it was dinnertime, my wife and my son's fiancee graciously let us all eat at the bar so I could see the finish of the Open. I am content.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Now I'm relaxing in my recliner, watching golf.

You are old.

 

[Scout]

Yikes.

Yeah, there is a new Father's Day rule in the house. I won’t be here. We will road trip as a family someplace. I’m thinking an overnight at a local minor league ballpark.

My family just can’t be trusted here. I have to put them in a position to succeed, and right now home on Father’s Day isn’t it.

This isn’t the first FD to go to complete ****.

 

[dixiehack]

One sneaky divorced dad dilemma is trying to get the balance right with the time you spend with your child on this day so that they also get a decent bit of time to fete the stepdad.

(I truly don’t mind, and I’m the one who goes out of my way to make it happen. He’s a pickup-driving, huntin-and-a-fishin good ole boy, my complete opposite in a lot of ways. But he’s gentle with my kids and never flinched about being a dad despite none of his own and he’s taken a lot of bull**** off my plate by giving my ex a project to focus on other than me. If he was a drinker I’d send him a fifth of Makers each year.)

 

[Flip Wilson]

Our kids were away at a church yutes retreat for a couple of days before Father's Day, so the wife and I took a day trip and ate some good food. On Sunday, we went to church, took a nap and I picked up the young-uns in the afternoon. We had a great steak dinner at home, and best friends came over for dessert and we trash-talked (somewhat good-naturedly) some other people.

Oh, and we're updating our will and we were going to ask best friends if they could be guardians of our kids if something happens to both of us. They agreed before I could even finish asking. Those are the kinds of friends you need.

 

[Moderator1]

Foo on Father's Day, I'd like to make that happen every year. With my kids next time. Epic show.
They usually bring out a guest or two and I would have NEVER guessed last night's guest.

Dave Chappelle. He came out and sang Radiohead's Creep. It was incredible.

 

[Moderator1]

So everyone can enjoy it as much as I did

 

[qtlaw]

Played golf with my son this morning. Had a 40 minute Facetime with my daughter in France this afternoon. When it was dinnertime, my wife and my son's fiancee graciously let us all eat at the bar so I could see the finish of the Open. I am content.

That’s a great day. Drove oldest to airport on Friday to start his first post college job in a new town.

Had breakfast with youngest and went for swim with wife.

As we say “happy hallmark day!”