Plankton

Of course.

My daughter was my Caddie for the 2005 Illinois State Championships though. She screamed because of a bee right when I was shooting a putt to tie for 3rd place. I laughed about it, most others would have had a different attitude.

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Lisnaholic

^ Nice idea - some Pops Power after all the confessions of incompetence...

I´m happy to say that I can relate to your stories, Plank, Chula and BF, and I´d like to contribute a couple of scenes I´ll never forget. Here they are in the order in which they happened:-

Sorry to hear about the manic behaviour, Plankton...in calmer circumstances, I also remember my child falling asleep on my chest as I rocked in a hammock; if I spread out my hand, it´d cover his entire back, and I remember thinking, "Enjoy it while you can son, this kind of physical security won´t last forever!"

One morning, when he was walking, but not yet talking, I was at the backdoor step, sawing a piece of wood for a shelf. My son came to see what was going on, then ran off to his bedroom. A minute later he´s back with a big smile and his own little yellow plastic saw. He squeezes right in between me and the piece of wood so his saw is exactly in line with mine and then starts sawing away like me...

Even though it meant getting dirty, I liked taking my baby son into the back garden from a very early age. One morning after a tour of the garden, he sat on that same backdoor step while I took off his shoes, oozing with mud. As he watched the proceedings he suddenly said "poopoo shoe." It was the very first time he´d put two words together on his own.

Clichés are clichés for a reason, and I remember teaching my son to ride a bike, finally pushing him off on his wobbly adventure, just like you see in the movies. Later he wanted to show off his new skill, so we met his aunts, cousins, grandma in the local park and he demonstrated by doing a circuit or two of a basketball court. He ended the performance by braking in front of me and saying, "Daddy, you´re the max!" - a glowing moment of father-son pride.

So that´s up to what?, age seven, more or less, but I´ll spare you any further sacharine installments for the moment.

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Plankton

That's some good saccharine Lisna.

My daughters mom is/was a nightmare, but that's all in the distant past. She's been out of our lives for over a decade now. Being a single Dad has been a tough road, but having such an incredible daughter made it easy.

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Lisnaholic

^ I didn´t know that. Single Dad to a daughter must be tricky at times.

I also split from my partner when my son was small; I let her have the house and I got the child. Although I was pretty pinched for time and money for about a decade, I always knew that I had the best side of the bargain. I think my only regret was that my son was an only child - he really could´ve used the companionship of a sibling to help see him through.( All his classmates seemed to come from model nuclear families like the Cosby Show or whatever.) Is your girl an only child too?

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Frownland

I've been on the receiving end of a pretty good dad moment. My band and I were in my garage recording what would later become Indecent Vibrations (which sounds like this). After we finished recording one of the tracks my dad comes into the garage and asks "Why don't you play a SONG?"

When he left we figured that it must have been one of our better tracks to befuddle Frownland Sr. We were right.

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The Batlord

I heard DRI got their name when they were playing in one of the member's parents' basements, and their dad came down and called them "dirty rotten imbeciles". You should change your band's name to "Why don't you play a SONG?" (WDYPAS? for short)

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Black Francis

The first band i was ever in was called K.O.D but then we later changed our name to The Units.

Both names are better than WDYPAS.

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The Batlord

No, they're really not. One sounds like POD and the other looks like you were picking garage rock band names out of a hat.

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Frownland

But WDYPLAS sounds like you're just trying to make a shitty quip on a music forum.

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Chula Vista

And succeeding.

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