Best advice your dad ever gave you?

[Sambo11]

My dad, well lets just not go there i'll kindly ask for a pass but my Grandfather was a hard nose old school stand up kind of guy. Being a kid I didn't really get why he had to always be so serious about everything. Even when we were doing fun stuff he was serious. He was one of those born at the turn of the century old school guys with wisdom beyond his years. I would get all twisted up about something and even though he didn't use kind or gentle words he always made me see the positive. Sometimes I hated that but I pretty much always knew he was right. There were 2 things he used to say that I remember WELL from growing up around him. One of which I never really understood till recently and the other was always obvious.

1) "God gave you 2 ears and 1 mouth. So you can listen TWICE as much as you talk!" (Obviously this was the obvious one)

2) "The world isn't getting any bigger there's just getting to be less in it." (It's taken me alot of years before I knew what the h*ll he was talking about but these last 2 yrs have made things crystal clear. He passed away about 30yrs ago and probably for the good because I don't think he could take much of todays society. RIP Grandad)

 

[JSCC]

My dad was one of my best friends, and the best real MAN I have ever known.

A couple he told me at a young age:

"Dont ever follow in someone's footsteps, lead them."

"Dont sit and watch people live, get out and live it yourself!"

"Listen to what is being said, but only take from it what you can use later."

I miss him everyday, and just writing this get's me teary eyed.....
Till we meet again dad.

 

[SXI Pro]

fathers

One my dad still tells me " You got the touch of an elephant" That started when i stripped the Spark plug on my Kitty Cat, back before I even started school!


" If the cops call my dad and tells him that I have been caught drinking, I would be safer going to jail and meeting Bubba, then coming home and facing my DAD."
Never did drink while in High School or College.

If you can't pay cash for it, you don't need it.

I'm 22 and i only have a company Credit Card.

 

[crestview]

He always said "You can lead your friends to heaven or you can follow them to hell."

Kept me out of alot of trouble in high school and college anyways.

 

[Scut Farkus]

my old man is not much of a talker and always gets right to the point. here are a couple classics from him:

"so is that kind of like being just a little pregnant?"

"if women weren't always sitting on the answer they would be eating out of the garbage."

"how much more than $50 do you want for that piece of sh*t?"-he would say this when we went to buy anything (sled, bike, trailer, RV, horse, etc.)

"you can lose a lot of money chasing women but you will never lose women chasing money."

"i don't care what you and your girlfriend are doing out here but both of you keep both feet on the floor."

"try this. it will fix anything from acne to zits."

"that would get the wrinkles out."-in reference to an attractive lady

another one of my favorites is when i was getting ready to graduate and studying for my SAT's. i was probably only weeks away from turning 18 at the time. he came down into my room and said "do you know what your johnson is for besides taking a piss?" i responded that i did and then he said "good. don't do it until you're married. now get your a** upstairs and eat. supper's ready." that my friends, was my birds and the bees talk from my pops.

 

[blue fluff]

Good thread 'Bom!

 

[markgyver]

Dont get her knocked up!

 

[Slednoggin23]

Great Thread

I never knew my dad either and my granddad died before I was born. There was a man about the age my granddad would have been that more or less took on the roll when I was about six. He was an world war II vet and a Allis Chambers mechanic that taught me tons on life. Put me to work from sun up to sun down on the ranch. Wouldnt trade that hard work for the world. Men like that are golden. Some of his best.

"Hard work never killed anyone" When I tried to be lazy.

"You'll get plenty of sleep when your dead" When I slept past 5am.

"Never miss an opportunity to shut your mouth" When he knew I was lying.

"Pretend the head of your d!(k is under it" When I asked how tight to get something that shouldn't be super tight. Or...

"Run it up hand tight then put a wrench on it and tighten it til it darn near strips" If it had to be super tight.

"Time spent waiting on women is time you will never get back"

 

[GYP M-80]

dont get married... you can rob a liquor store just dont get married

 

[slyrydr]

let's see...from grand dad......don't set out to teach another man a lesson unless you're ready to learn one yourself........the worst situations you will ever be in are the ones you make for yourself.........if you have to see the end from the beginning, you'll never be what you could be; sometimes you have to have faith in yourself to step into the dark and have confidence you'll land on your feet and be further ahead than those who have to know that every step they take is safe..............that last one gave me confidence to do some of the things in life that got me the furtherest ahead.....

 

[Blu Du]

put a jimmey on that thing

 

[snowgasmxz]

better to ask and let them think you are a idot than to run out and prove it

 

[SLEDIOT]

No advice dad died when I was 8. Far as I could remember tho he always reminded me beer was good..............

 

[snopropanther]

his best advice was

"never listen to me"




and ive been doing that for almost 21 years now and it is working everyday.

 

[f3600]

Lost my Dad 5 years ago now, he was 56. But I still remember he parted the best wisdom in the sauna (Finlander thing).

- Work smart, not hard. (Him 30 plus years welding)

- Don't kiss anyone's azz for an orange, buy your own orange.

- A fartin horse will never tire, a fartin man's the man to hire.

- the ****kin your gonna get, ain't worth the ****kin your gonna get. (marriage advice - although married to my Mom for 33+)

Miss that guy everyday.

 

[Gainster]

^^^^^ - Work smart, not hard

That was my grandpa's saying too

Funny how simple words can mold ones life!

 

[BIG JOHN]

I just wish that my Dad was around and actually gave a chit when I was a teen. He has changed now, but I am 35 so it's a day late and a dollar short.

Those of you who had great relationships with your Dad, count your blessings.

My father passed in 1992...he taught me basic bike/sled/car mechanics from an ealy age...wish like hell he was here to see what I'm DOOing now...he was the original sledhead, with a ported/piped 500 Polaris Centurion, then Indy 650's then mod Phazers/Exciters... for you dad and Thank You...BJ

"look at her calves and her mother...both will verify maximum density..."

 

[Farms-1]

When I turned 16 and got my first pick-up:

"Keep the big one out of the ditches' and the little one in your britches'."



The day I moved into the college dorm:

"Always carry a toothbrush in your back pocket." Of course I asked him why. "You will want to brush your teeth when you get thrown in jail and don't call me cause I ain't gonna bail ya out."

I guess he knew what he was talking about and I didn't call him, I called my girlfriend. She was not happy!

 

[MN_Nole]

" Don't BS me, anything you try to do, I've already done it. Now tell me the truth.."
He wasn't lying, evertime I did something he did it bigger, and got caught as well.
Cliche I know
" I brought you in this world, I'll damn sure take you out" , as stupid testing teanager had to try, learned the hard way. Never F' with and former Marine.

" I don't care who you do or what you do, just wrap it"

" the closer the bone the sweater the meat."

Consider myself lucky, hated him growing up as a teenager. Got to KNOW him in college, and best of all got to be his friend as well as his son after college. When he died I counted myself as lucky in one respect, he was my friend and father. We respected each other, it was something I found out while we were out as father/son(friend) that his father finally had for him, which brought them closer, and us. Respect is earned, not given.

 

[Dobber1]

'Keep your head down, knee's bent, left arm straight and hit it hard'

A few golf quotes from my dad...
"The reason you get mad is because you're not as good as you think you are."
"Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect."
"Yeah, nice shot, if you don't care about your score."
"Hit the little ball first."