I really picked up his work ethic and the importance of family.

 

Work ethic, love of guns and American cars, and baseball.

 

Not a damn thing!

Have'nt seen the worthless Bastard since I was 13

 

everything from racing a car at 5 when he used to race with me in his lap....to getting hauled in to a police station together when i was 14 and we got into a fight with 2 detectives over a parking space...to hotwiring a car when i was 10 and he showed me how....to when he came and got me when i ran away from my moms house and was hiding in my girlfriends basement in jersey at 16..he even smoothed it over when i beat my girlfriends father with a shovel when i smacked him around for coming home drunk and trying to have sex with her...he left the family when i was a baby too and my brohers hate the guy but he always stuck around me and i love him forever........he was the coolest cop ever

 

Work ethics...

 

Nothing....... He died 3 months before I was born!

 

take the pain
do good work (this is pop for it better be perfect of I'll **** it up and make you do it again)
no dad is always better than a poor quality one
never start a fight, always finish a fight, go in to kill & get worse
if you're gunna be in the wrong, be all the way in the wrong
always bring a pistol, a pocket knife and a hanky. It's stuff a guy can use.

 

LOL Is your last name Wayne and dads name John?

 

that is friggin awesome as a quote

 

Lets see...

Keep to your morals and beliefs, don't change them for anyone.
People can change
Never make a promise to stay changed forever
Work every job the best you possibly can, and take pride in what you do.
Don't do drugs. (dad has only been clean and sober 3 years now.)
If you have a little in life, make the best out of it all.
If it aint hard, it probably aint worth it.
Always take the first swing, normally its the last. If you take the second swing, don't stop till someones pulling you off.

My love of guns, hunting, sports, history comes from him as well.

 

nope... but he's a lot like the Duke's image was portrayed. I tell you what...(a lot of redneck jokes start like that heheh) I've known some tough old farts in my time. I'd stand toe to toe with the bulk of them. BUT, there's about a handful that I'd just go ahead and try my hardest not to **** off. He's in the latter group. Example A. I watched him carefully set down his side of a 500lb wood stove (me holding the other side) when one of two pre-existing steel rods in his back broke... audibly. He didn't want to drop the stove and have me follow it through the floor to the basement. He was, after all, going to need me to help him lay down in a second, and call the ambulance, and get him a vicodin and then leave or be murdered. That's tough. That's hard. That impressed me.

He stole it from Ted Nugent. I think the Nuge stole it from my pop. He's seemingly always carried all 3, even to the bathroom.
does anyone else see the paradox's... sorry, twas hella hella hella funny.

 

Happy Fathers day to all and remember what the ole dude taught you.

 

Nothin. parents divorced at two. Didn't see again til 13.

Now he's about to die soon because he's been looking for the answers to his problems in the bottom of a bottle for to long. So I guess you can say I learned that liquor is not the answer to my problems.

 

Not a damn thing. He was a total *** wipe.

 

Lots about money.

Dont get into debt
Always take time for your money

A lot about life too

Treat others the way you'd want to be treated
If you dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all
Dont half-*** anything
Assuming makes an *** out of you AND me
How I want to raise my kids

 

work ethic. if ya don't do it right the first time, don't do it at all. how to raise a family. how to be hardheaded, lol. outdoors, cars/trucks, and ethics in general.

 

work ethic, working hard, money management and all that stuff. He taught me how to fish, work on cars, play the guitar, play baseball, and a lot lot more. My dad is a great guy. I'm fortunate to have a great dad and I try to be the best I can for my son. I was always impressed with what my dad made of himself. He's not rich by any means but when he and my mom got married in 1960 they were 16 yrs old. They lived in some terrible neighborhoods in north St.Louis. So bad he bought my mom a pistol to carry in case she would have to go outside. He worked hard and steady and moved his family out of that mess into a house and then in a few years a better house, and a better one.. etc. He always made a little go a long way. He worked 30 years at one place and I think he only missed like 5 days or less. It didn't matter if he was sick as a dog or there was 2 feet of snow on the ground he worked. I gotta say I'm proud of my dad. I forgot to mention my dad had owned several mustangs in his life and I guess that's where I get my love for the mustang from. hehe..