I caught myself letting out a big sigh just sitting down the other day and instantly thought, oh no, I’ve become my dad😂, whether it’s a classical dad-ism like narrating the weather or turning off every light in the house, what’s little habits have you picked up without even realizing?
What’s something small your dad or grandpa did that you’ve caught yourself doing?
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be dissapointed in my kids.
I’m always trying to fix sth whether in my job, at home or at the farm. I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
Talk to loud on the phone.
Getting easily irritated when my wife can’t do something I consider simple which is usually something that’s been drilled into my head for years. I have to stop for a moment and remember “dude she’s never handled a torque wrench before chill” before I get too much into it. PSA to Dad’s everywhere, just because something is easy to you doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy for everyone!
Drinking coffee while staring blankly on the horizon
I constantly bounce my legs consciously or not
Complaining about pot holes and high cholesterol
When having to do paperwork. My grandfather always laid everything out across the entire table. Get on the phone all day being on hold for different agencies. Cussing them out when he hung up. Notes on everything. Log who he talked to with name, date, time.
He’s been gone nearing 20 years now. And in late 2023 my aunt died and I got left with all the paperwork. All of it. The bank crap, the bills, the beneficiary crap, etc. Totally different from his stuff I had to handle when he died when I was in my mid 20s. No one to get help from, no advice. I paid to get my tax man to give me advice. Absolutely overwhelming but I needed to do it and I needed to keep it organized. I wasted literal days early last year working on it all. Back and forth. Hours on hold. And it was days of time into this that one night it just hit me like a ton of bricks when I saw my kitchen table. You know, I very clearly saw it the whole time but it was my first time actually seeing it and what I was doing somehow. And it was like holy shit! It’s dad. I’m doing what he did. The table looks exactly like it did when he did paperwork crap. Omfg. Without thinking about it I was doing it the same damn way. Notes on everything. Logging who I’m talking with. Stacks organized across the tabletop.
It was such a weird moment. And it sounds so weird and stupid to say out loud being in my 40s. But it was honestly like omg, I’m an adult. I’m him. I’ve got all my shit in order. It’s stressful as all hell. I wish I could strangle most of these worthless assholes on the phone who are all in India and I can’t understand half of what their saying. Cussing to myself things I can’t type on here about that as soon as I hangup. I’m a grown ass man now. God it sucks.
Connecting words from a conversation to a song lyric. Bonus points if you start singing it obnoxiously.