Found Fathers Day Card
On Sunday, as you know, it's Fathers Day, the day when fathers around the country can look forward to thoughtful gifts (bought by Mommy or other relatives), Dollar Store presents (from a youngster's allowance), and homemade gifts and cards from Daddy's little tyke. If he's lucky, though, he won't get a card like this one.
( A found Fathers Day card, for a zombie dad? )
( A found Fathers Day card, for a zombie dad? )
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in any given prison, almost all prisoners send mothers day cards,
and almost none send fathers day cards.
When my son was little,
he and I would get to the park early to play basketball together,
one-on-one,
because dads would show up with their kids,
playing basketball amongst themselves while their kids played with the other kids.
I never had the nerve to stand in the middle of the court,
point to the playground equipment and yell,
"HOW LONG DO YOU MOTHER-FUCKERS THINK THEY'LL WAIT?"
Seeing this card now,
I kinda wish I'd had copies to show those dads then.
But chances are, every one of them has already received a card just like this.
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It took me a while to figure out what you were saying about the fathers, but I get it now. Technically, they had taken their kids to the park, but they weren't actively interacting with them. That is sad, especially when you think that they were actually getting distracted with their own game, so that they weren't even watching their children.
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I hate to admit to anyone,
especially myself, that I could have a kid that old.
How old does that make me?
And for the majority of those dads,
so far as I could tell,
this time in the park was part of their weekly visitation.
The moms were dumping the kids on the dads,
and the dads were dumping the kids on the playground.
So, yeah, there's one video controller, and it's huge.
*sigh*
Sorry, I'm getting even more ranty than I was to begin with.
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Just sad that they used their visitation that way, instead of spending it connecting.
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