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Dadisms Story by SARAH CLOWER Illustration by CLIFF THOMAS
FATHERS SERVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN CHILDREN’S LIVES, and we often have fond memories of our childhoods revolving around the antics of our dads. My dad was a notorious prankster, and was always doing something ornery. My sister and I love to sit around reminiscing about all the silly things my dad did. He told dad jokes like nobody’s business, was always up to something, and was fanatically frugal. This year, I wanted to write an article about all of the quirky things our dads did when we were young that they thought were saving the family money, funny phrases, and just dad stuff in general. QUIRKS: My father in law smells everything around him everywhere he goes. Furniture in furniture stores, basketballs in sporting goods stores, things at Walmart. He swears you can tell the quality of an item by its smell. - Melissa My dad loved to scuba dive and would find
all sorts of what he called “treasures” on the bottoms of the rivers, lakes, and oceans, and bring them home to my mom, sister and me. And most of the time, we would be horrified by the condition of these items. But my dad was always so proud of every find. - Sarah
dad switch his info from his old phone to a new iPhone. I told him there was a place to securely keep user names and passwords for different accounts and it was then I realized my dad had about 35-40 email addresses and passwords. He had been making a new one for every single account he had online not realizing he could use the same one for Every time a boy came to my house when all of them. I was a teenager, even if they were just a - Joy friend or even in a study group, my dad would sit in the living room cleaning his “My dad smoked when my siblings and I shotgun. It was so embarrassing. were growing up. My mom insisted my sib- Karen lings and I couldn’t catch him. My dad used all sorts of excuses to go outside to smoke One day a few years back, I was helping my a cigarette even though my siblings and I
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