Father’s Day
By blog on Jun. 14, 2010.
Father’s day is this weekend, are you ready for it?
My father passed away a few years back, so I don’t have any Father’s Day gifts to buy, but my SO does. Her father is a difficult man to shop for. He’s taciturn nature doesn’t lend itself to getting to know the man easily, and all that anyone really does know about him is that he likes football and complaining.
So, with that in mind, my SO has bought him a lot of football merchandise over the years, but this year wants to go completely different. She’s doing her shopping online, so she’s got to order in the next twenty-four hours to get the item here on time, but that’s fine.
She wanted to make sure she could get ideas for, and buy, something unusual so shopping online worked out there. At the moment the contenders are the Hopside Down Beer Glass – as that’s one other thing we know about her dad, he likes beer – as well as a Bobble Opener, as she thinks they’re odd and fun and go with the glass, but she’s not sure what else.
My SO and her father don’t have a close relationship. The man doesn’t speak all that much and when he does it’s usually either rude or complaining. As such, he’s not fun to get presents for. I encourage her to spend little time around him as she always ends up sad and frustrated by him.
So what are you getting for your father for father’s day? Going to go with the traditional slippers and bathrobe? I miss shopping for my father. He was always really happy with whatever you got him, and was so proud that you’d found this amazingly awesome gift. He was so easy to shop for, too, because almost invariably whatever I thought was cool, he thought was awesome. Ah, I do miss the fellow.
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