2/ My dad was trained as a military scout; growing up, we asked if we could get GPS for our cars. He insisted we learn to use paper maps and memorize routes without making marks. Why? If you’re ever captured, you don’t want evidence of your plans.
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3/ When we visited aquariums, my dad liked to visit the fish he had eaten or aspired to eat.
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4/ We grew up in a very cold part of New York state. During winters, he would turn the garage into a meat locker and hang up meat. We had to make sure not to hit them with the cars.
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5/ Related to meat and cooking, my dad thinks different kinds of kitchen knives are a scam by Big Cutlery. He uses one huge cleaver, which he keeps honed to a razor edge, to do all his cooking.
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6/ On the rare occasions we would eat out, my dad really liked dim sum. He had little patience for the carts and would stand by the door to the kitchen to intercept food as it came out.
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7/ My dad really likes light beer. When my sister was graduating from BU, my dad heard that frat parties served free beer. So he wandered into one and helped himself to beer. I hear that the brothers were too bemused to kick him out so he had a few beers and left.
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8/ One of my dad’s favorite summer time activities is squatting on the deck, smoking, drinking light beer, eating peanuts, and feeding peanuts to blue jays.
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9/ The neighborhood blue jays started frequenting our house, which my dad liked. Blue jays are known to be assholes. When my dad was on biz trips, his entourage of blue jays would attack our house and caw at 6 AM until someone went out to feed them peanuts.
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This was perfection. Thank you for your stories about your great dad.
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