Cheers, Dad
He told me when Osama Bin Laden died we would have a bottle of champagne, but then he died a month after 9/11 because he was an alcoholic.
2011-10-27 13:23:02 / Rating: 150 / 
Story archives - tag: "dad"
silenced
When her shaky and sobbing voicemail said to call her back asap, the worst thing I could think of was maybe her dog was dead, not her father.
2011-06-20 11:07:26 / Rating: 445.5 /
Miller
After the divorce, I found the stash of pictures my Dad had of my Mother and burned them without him knowing it.
2011-06-17 14:01:11 / Rating: 311.75 /
TeenageDriver
Hands-down, the best week to tell your father you accidentally drove his car off a large rock formation in your friend's front yard when you were in high school is the week before you get married.
2011-04-26 19:48:07 / Rating: 456.5 /
Seventeen
My only memory of my dad is being held up to wave goodbye to the ambulance which took him to the hospital where he died.
2010-11-30 12:33:38 / Rating: 511 /
Michael
My dad couldn't remember what type of animal was on the hood ornament of a Jaguar.
2010-08-31 12:14:35 / Rating: 424.25 /
Miss Soviet Ukraine
When I was five, I licked my father's shaver and cut my tongue.
2010-05-18 16:02:26 / Rating: 407.5 /
MWS
I never thought that one day I would come home to a fire truck in my drive way and my dad valiantly dousing the trees with a hose after our burn pile shifted to the woods, but it has made an excellent dinner story at every family gathering since.
2010-04-02 11:23:55 / Rating: 294 /
LBriers
My dad's last note to me was "Always hear the music in your life."
2010-02-25 08:04:29 / Rating: 669 /
thumpersrock
When I came home late and found the lawnmower in my bed, I realized my dad wasn't kidding when he said he wanted the grass mowed "today."
2010-01-27 09:32:14 / Rating: 724 /
Will
Only after stepping on a lego in the middle of the night and ignoring the pain in order not to wake up the little princess I was carrying to bed did I realize that I was really a dad and not just a father.
2009-12-07 16:51:40 / Rating: 1342.75 /
Rhyun
The first time I ever shaved, my dad said, "Be careful, the razors are razor-sharp."
2009-11-23 16:38:45 / Rating: 411.25 /
Kendra
When I went downstairs to use the internet I found my father passed out drunk in front of the computer, so I blogged over top of him.
2009-06-14 17:37:38 / Rating: 466 /
I wonder what else I don't know
When I told my dad I'd misplaced my class ring, he told me his was lost 30 years ago when "a girl died in a car accident."
2009-04-07 14:04:34 / Rating: 576 /
Daughter
He told me I would have to pay for my own wedding as he was packing for his 3 week cruise through Europe on a chartered yacht.
2009-04-03 13:44:12 / Rating: 434 /
Umm...
I considered the date over when he announced that he was going to be a dad by the time he was 20.
2009-03-05 11:25:58 / Rating: 319.75 /
Troy Denver
His best record was that he went fifteen minutes before asking me what my grades were when I got home from boarding school.
2009-02-02 11:13:01 / Rating: 330.25 /
lost a tooth
That night I fell out of bed and smacked my nose on the metal bedframe, and the next morning my dad joked that the toothfairy pushed me.
2009-01-28 16:28:05 / Rating: 506.75 /
Autumn
I thought it was pretty cool when my dad told me he had joined a band, until he informed me that he would be playing the spoons and the triangle.
2009-01-07 12:46:26 / Rating: 580.25 /
never the same
I watched her tiny tummy sucking in, her skin pulling tight against her ribs, her hand involuntarily closing on my index finger as she struggled for every breath, and I thought, "One day, is one day too much to ask?"
2008-12-22 15:51:17 / Rating: 845 /
Jules
I have a clock in my living room that my dad loved and it stopped on the day he died at the exact time of his death.
2008-07-16 10:42:36 / Rating: 708.25 /
Beckii
My childhood finally made sense when I saw a cross dresser walk down the street and realized that that was my dad.
2008-07-10 15:32:07 / Rating: 825.75 /
lawrence berezin
I did not say goodbye to my Dad as he left for work the last time.
2008-05-30 10:03:56 / Rating: 596.5 /
lassoprecise
In order to feel as if he had some sort of control over his cancer, my father would search the streets for a dollar in change before each chemo session.
2008-04-21 13:59:16 / Rating: 629.5 /
R
Standing next to my dad this Christmas, I realized for the first time that he's reached the age at which people begin to get shorter.
2007-12-27 12:24:44 / Rating: 542.25 /
La De Da
It's never like the movies...we pulled the plug and he took two hours to die.
2007-11-15 22:21:37 / Rating: 804.25 /
anonymoose
My dad died six years ago and I'm starting forget what he was like because it hurts too much for me to think about him.
2007-10-10 13:30:44 / Rating: 620 /
sigh
My very married, sixty-year-old father obviously doesn't know that you can search by e-mail address on Myspace since he has a page that says he's thirty, single, and there for "dating."
2007-08-23 18:02:51 / Rating: 442.5 /
Going Like Sixty
My dad came to one of our high school track meets and I finished last in the 1000 meter run.
2007-08-03 15:43:55 / Rating: 488.25 /
RAM
Right before my father died nearly 20 years ago, he told me to quit smoking, and last month I finally did.
2007-06-15 12:57:12 / Rating: 656.5 /
Tracy137
Your husband never noticing you've had your hair done is bad enough, but my dad didn't notice when my mum broke her leg and had it in plaster.
2007-05-14 13:32:41 / Rating: 518.25 /
Aeris
The only reason I felt bad when my dad's girlfriend left him was it meant he was coming back to live with us.
2007-02-20 15:23:47 / Rating: 621.25 /
Doom
My dad once told me, "Don't keep the Preparation H too close to the toothpaste," then, after a moment, I realized that he was serious.
2006-10-22 20:30:18 / Rating: 575.5 /