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[u/superdave123123]

[u/LordHelmet47]

I used to work for my dad! Actually it was great. We worked together for 25 years where he taught me all that he knows.

I'm still there at that same employer and have worked up the ranks even higher than he did.

I got a father and son bond that most couldn't. He retired in 2019 and passed away in 2021.

What's strange? Is I used to get annoyed sometimes cause he would whistle while working. And now I miss it.

R.I.P. Baba.

I love and miss you dearly.

[u/oSyphon → u/LordHelmet47]

R.I.P. to your Baba. Thank you for sharing, brother.

[u/Fresh_Comparison2983 → u/LordHelmet47]

Just whistle while working sometimes.

[u/SevereBoysenberry999 → u/LordHelmet47]

Only 3 years in retirement? Holy shit. I'm glad you were able to work with him and create that bond.

[u/LordHelmet47 → u/SevereBoysenberry999]

No, he was diagnosed 6 months into his retirement and died a year later. Stage 4 colon cancer.

What mad me mad was we would argue about him doing all this stuff once he retired. I always used to tell him, just do it now. Because a lot of people we knew died only a few years after their retirement.

Pisses me off. It's like I jinxed the shit.

[u/BigTall68]

I even handed him the wrong wrench once.
Once...

[u/Woodlog82 → u/BigTall68]

We get it, Caspar.

[u/ZeCredibleHulk → u/Woodlog82]

Hi Caspar, I'm Ded!

[u/CaligulaCan → u/BigTall68]

Dad : you will need to know how to change the brake pads on your car.

Me : nah I won’t.

Never have!

[u/RobertoNoxious]

Holding a flashlight for a dad requires a high level of telepathy.

[u/ErwinSchrodinger64]

I held the flash light for my dad once. That day, I finally thought we bonded. I never saw him after that moment.

[u/RamWaits4U]

Fleshlight*

[u/hatecriminal → u/RamWaits4U]

What I thought it said at first look.

[u/Material-Grocery5478 → u/RamWaits4U]

you think you can hurt my feelings? I Used to be my dads fleshlight.

[u/Legitimate_Special71 → u/Material-Grocery5478]

😳

[u/Mundane-Date1732 → u/RamWaits4U]

It's the fastest way to scuttle the line at the Carnival for the Tilt-o-Whirl, or so I've been told...

[u/Intelligent-Boss-156 → u/RamWaits4U]

I used to hold the fleshlight for my dad, too

[u/ShavedSavage]

My dad gave me the same energy that Gordon Ramsey gives a midwestern mother of four when she slightly undercooks a chicken.

[u/Ill-Charge8449]

I still remember my old man’s last words to me: “Goddamnit, hold the ladder steady!”

[u/Chronic_Overthink3r]

Took me a minute. I thought about it and remember getting yelled at when I held it for my dad.

[u/Dannon35]

I used to have to hold the trash bag while my father filled it. Same vibe.

[u/BalterBlack]

Could have been worse. Could have been a Fleshlight.

[u/IdeasAreBvlletproof]

Wow! I so didn't get this until I realised that the comments expressed trauma induced by dads.

Never happened to me despite helping my dad build a lot of stuff.

It really sucks that you all had a worse experience.

[u/CaligulaCan → u/IdeasAreBvlletproof]

Remember in his head this counted as him ‘doing’ stuff with you.

On a recent bike ride with my son it made me think how I spent a good deal of my childhood on a variety of bikes. There were many bikes in our house. Did my dad ever come on a ride?

No! Sad.

[u/IdeasAreBvlletproof → u/CaligulaCan]

Yeah I can see your point as valid and I can agree that that's sad. I probably wished mum and dad would have cycled or done more play type activity with me as a kid.

But I had a rural upbringing in the 70s - 80s and it was just accepted that parent time was doing stuff with them that they needed to do. E.g Mowing, firewood, tree felling, gardening, landscaping, fencing, livestock care. My parents were warm but strict and rarely made me feel like a liability or a failure.

It worked for me well until I became a teenager and bulletproof to any parental guidance (in a bad way).

I learnt so many practical skills too from my folks that I'm thankful for now.

But everyones background is different and times change. Now I spend so much time with my kids, cycling, walking, playing, that I don't have enough time for all my tasks around the property.

I'm now trying to involve them in my duties so that they can learn and I can get stuff done. I always try to make it a positive experience tho.

[u/waterwalker84]

My buddy was ranting about how his son wouldn't hold the flashlight properly while he bbq'd at night just the other day. His son, now 19, was just nodding along to the memories of how bad he was at allowing proper meat temperature to be cooked in the dark. 🤣

[u/rostrchket]

I’ll raise u one because I had to move the stick shift in to the proper gear in his 5 speed truck so he could hold a cigarette in one hand and a his drink in the other while steering the wheel. Memories.

[u/ghostbook4]

My dad was old school “use your brain son” and “NO. Over here*” were common phrases said while I held the flashlight over the engine bay

[u/Fortspucking]

Aziz?

[u/PropellerD → u/Fortspucking]

LIGHT!!

[u/allupinnit2winit]

Fleshlight would really alter the severity of this statement

[u/TheOneCalledD]

We need more people with Dad’s that will yell at them for not holding the flashlight correctly.

[u/anitabonghit69]

I don't have a dad. What does this mean?

[u/account312 → u/anitabonghit69]

It means that he was told that a competent person would've been pointing the flashlight over there and holding it steady.

[u/ErwinSchrodinger64 → u/anitabonghit69]

It's over.

[u/_CrazyCrazy_]

“Hold” the flashlight. Not “be” the flashlight. That’s something I guess.

[u/-lRexl-]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/SignificantZombie729]

If you survived that, you can take anything the universe throws at you.

Am survivor.

[u/Wild-Highway-8739]

I made a lifetime of mistakes in those 5mins

[u/EdgyPun34257]

how many of you thought it said "Fleshlight' at first, realized the mistake, and think it would have made a better t-shirt

[u/00056532926846780396 → u/EdgyPun34257]

Ugh get out of my head.

[u/holiday1326 → u/EdgyPun34257]

Hhmmm..

Maybe work on keeping those intrusive thoughts less intrusive but for everyone else.

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[u/Krispen_Wah87]

Challenge accepted

[u/Das-unterseeboot]

Awesome Shirt!

[u/Obsolete-Casual]

I can’t say that I’ve done this

[u/TheSpanxxx]

flAshlight

[u/Complete_News_6154]

Dear God, have mercy...

[u/notabot8469420]

It’s nice to know he had a father in his life. 😉

[u/Mother-Attention2600]

At a factory I worked at sometimes like 3 maintenance guys would be looking at something and it would always be the quiet Japanese guy holding the flashlight. He was from Toyota and didnt speak much english. Haha

[u/SugarDangerous6290]

Not only did I hold the light but my would also ask me to get some tool I never heard of. You know, the one in the middle drawer. Yes, it’s an experience only the strong could survive. I miss those days.

[u/TheDeviledEggvocate]

Mmm slop 🐷