> [Was irrationally twigged out at a Father's day op-ed where the man
> condemns modern fathers working long hours to make more. Yes, well,
> clearly he's bought into the 50s fantasy family, and forgotten that,
> still within human memory, "quality time with Dad" was
seeding behind the
> plow. Very few choose unnatural overtime -- and it tends NOT to be for
> avarice, but to nominally keep afloat.  But then, details muddy up even
> the most elegant of arguments....]

>From a missive I wrote on a completely different subject...

"Americans have always had the tendency to look back in fondness at things
which never existed. Ward and June Cleaver were never representative of the
Great American Family..."

My dad worked like a slave his whole life, and largely so we could keep
afloat. "Quality time" ? What the hell is that? If we wanted to spend time
with dad (and we did) we went on the job. Fortunately we could. But dad
coming home at 5pm, reading the paper, getting in a game of catch in the
yard... what? Huh? And I distinctly remember no one else had a dad who did
any different.

and in a perfectly "normal" twist on Father's Day (when I was unable to
call) Dad would have been unable to get the call because he was out whacking
down the waist-high weeds on a few acres around the house, tearing the
remaining (rotted) shingles off the last part of the roof to be done,
hauling debris to the dumpster, sawing off dead limbs on trees... etc etc.
Rest just because it's Father's Day? What? Huh?




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