When I was a 16 year old kid, just 2 weeks after receiving my drivers license, I rolled my Pop's car.  No one was hurt, but the car was a totaled.  My dad had full insurance, the car was replaced.  But as dad saw it, my own negligence wrecked the car.  It was life - lesson time.

He required me to pay for the new car, in full.  I got a job at the local school district sweeping floors, painting, fixing, and generally learning a whole lot of odds and ends.  After 2 years of work, I paid off that car the summer before I went off to college.  I took that car with me as a gift from my Dad.

My old man taught me the value of good honest work and I will forever be grateful.

Thanks Dad,   Dan

Happy fathers day to all the dads! Sometimes it isn't easy being a father, we don't have all the answers and we don't always say or do the right things with our kids. I just want to do as good a job as my dad with me and my brothers and sisters, I think we turned out pretty good. Happy fathers day dad, wish u were here!

You were lucky we lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank We used to have to get up at 6 oclock in the morning,eat a crust of stale bread go to work down mill for 14 hours a day week in week out and when we got home our dad  would thrash us to sleep with his belt.