QotD: Lessons from Dad
What lesson did your father teach you that still helps you in life?
How to be kind and hospitable and to make sure that people have something to eat on the way home.
How to make maths easy, by writing problems out on big pieces of paper.
How to write an academic essay and the right way to speak to lecturers so you get what you want out of them.
How to get out of social engagements you don't want to go to and how to extricate yourself from unwanted acquaintances.
How to deal with various kinds of back injuries.
How to read Russian and to speak some French, Italian, German and Danish.
How to think for myself.
That throwing your head back and bellowing with laughter at something funny is perfectly normal - not for us are stifled and repressed giggles, but big laughs, all the time.
Comments
He's the best.
OJ - it involves fibbing and elderly relatives sweeping into town at a moment's notice.
NB: My dad actually is coming into town next weekend so that's why I'm not going out.
Giving yourself into a healthy bellow of laughter - make a lesson of this and you will live long, and happily.
Your dad sounds like a deep and knowledgeable man.