My Dad

[ACE2M]

great post rover.

Immense post.  My Dad is a plumber.

Bet ya if you asked him he'd have some cool stories though. We hardly ever ask our Dad's about what they've done in the past assuming they've either always done what they do now or haven't really done anything.

absolutely true, i got stuck with the job of driving my granny and grandad to scotland last year and wasn't to happy about the 6 hour drive. But about 10 minutes after being on the motorway we got onto their life stories and it just didn't stop for the entire journey and it was probably the most interesting and funny 6 hours i've had in a long time. My granny was in the same class as stanley matthews at school, i can't beleive i never knew that until recently.

[KingPoker]

Fantastic post Rover.

My Dad was a pure tosser, hope one of my sons can write so well of me one day.

Geo.

My dad is a pure tosser aswell!!!

Nice post though rover!

[Karabiner]

What an absolutely lovely post, it makes me think of my own dad whom I am very proud of too.

The funny thing is that I must have spent more time with him in the last two years of his life when I was looking after him than I had in the previous fifty. We learnt a tremendous amount about each other and achieved a mutual respect that neither of us would have ever thought possible just a few short years before.

[tikay]

Immense post.  My Dad is a plumber.

My Dad was a Train driver. How proud, & jealous, am I?

I wanted to do the same, but he would not have it.

"Nah, the Railways are going downhill (how right was he!), I want you to have a proper job".

"What's a proper job?", I asked him one day.

"Like where you wear a suit, like the big knobs do".

So instead of a Train Driver, or Fireman as I'd have started as, I became a Builders Merchant's Apprentice. Got Certificates for it, know how many fletton or Class A Staffordshire Blue bricks in a ton, the British Standard for Cast Iron Manhole Covers & Frames (BS 497 it used to be, & the old Double Triangular was my favourite), the full range of three-quarter section bends in salt-glazed earthenware drains, the difference between a "P" Trap, ""S" Trap, & "U" Trap bends on a WC Pan, and I'm big into 24" x 24" concrete paving slabs, & half-battered kerbs, not to mention Carlite Browning, Thistle Board Finish, & 3/4" plasterboard as opposed to laths, High Tensile & Mild steel reinforcing (6mm, 8mm, 10mm, 12,m 16mm, 20mm, 25mm, 32mm & 40mm in 40' lengths) and B1143 Mesh Reinforcement, to BS 4483.  Been well handy, that. And I spent the last 40 years rueing not being a train driver. To this very day. But Dad was well proud of me, that's all that matters.

Life can be cruel, but it generally works out OK.

[tikay]

Fantastic post Rover.

My Dad was a pure tosser, hope one of my sons can write so well of me one day.

Geo.

My dad is a pure tosser aswell!!!

Nice post though rover!

Work on it. You'll regret if you don't. I promise.

[ACE2M]

interesting fact about the railways tikay..

They have their own private phone network, it's worth a huge amount but they use it for a few private calls a day or something.

[ericstoner]

Are Dads memory are very special.

My dad was a teacher,and when I was young he would not hear of my mum going to work. We lived in a three bedded victorian terraced house, my perents five children, and two lodgers...................don't ask me how.

Also to bring  more money into the house,dad worked in a pub at weekends.

But Dad owned his ow house, had he's own car, gave us a holiday most years, and paid for us children to go to private convent until eleven.

EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION.

[Claw75]

Fantastic post rover, and I'm sure your dad is very proud of you too.

[GlasgowBandit]

My Da ............

Bank Robber, Hooligan, Alcoholic, Degenerate Gambler,

All good trais I'm sure you'd agree!

Ohh I he was also a bus driver, train driver, conductor and taxi driver.  Glutton for punnishment.

[wader leg]

So instead of a Train Driver, or Fireman as I'd have started as, I became a Builders Merchant's Apprentice. Got Certificates for it, know how many fletton or Class A Staffordshire Blue bricks in a ton, the British Standard for Cast Iron Manhole Covers & Frames (BS 497 it used to be, & the old Double Triangular was my favourite),

Un-interesting  facts about manhole covers number 275

You cannot drop a round manhole cover down its own hole, whereas you can with any other shaped one.

[DesD]

Great post Trevor.

[madasahatstand]

Your must be really proud of your dad:) very good post indeed!!

[Rod Paradise]

Rover, if you ever get the chance organise a meal for your Dad (his birthday maybe) and some of his mates from his playing days. We had one for mine, invited 3 of his oldest football mates and their wives, and my Mum spent weeks scanning her collection of newspaper cuttings into an album.... I've never laughed as much or been as entertained. A dinner to sit there, shut up and listen to some people who have lived a life I'd have loved to (2 left feet though) & who all seem to have great recall of people they've played with and against.

I heard stories that would have been front page then, would still make the press now & it was fantastic - we did it for my Dad & I think I got the most out of it.

[bone1986]

What a great post to start this thread.  I work for my father in the plumbing and heating business, in the last three years he has had two lots of heart surgery including a triple heart bypass, and is due to go under the knife again in two weeks for a more minor op. During this time he has been to work almost constantly even against our wishes, he worries about the employees and how they will pay their bills more than he worries about his own health, much to my own dismay. It seems that our dads are a breed apart and I hope that one day I can be half the man mine is.

[barhell]

I must say thats a great post Rover hope you find out as much as you can about his playing days just for your own knowledge.