Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

The Bot's Delight and My Dad's Life

Today I just can't decide to write about. My mind has gone through some of the subject that I like to think about such as Lebron James, Trump, Reagan and more on my childhood. I even surveyed the readers of my blog. The five bots who never misses an entry had no suggestions. I learned a new word: serendipity. It still may make the list. I am thinking that the bots are waiting with baited breath to read that one.
The real reason I am writing is that I have no idea how my dad thought. He died when I was 11. I have vague memories of the man. Most good but not all. He was a "good" drunk. In other words when he hit the sauce he did not hit anyone else.
They called him Charlie Brown after the comic strip. I think mainly from his bad luck and Charlie Brown like bald head. He was a bar tender. Served drinks with a smile. People enjoyed his company. He was charming as he had seven wives. There where many good thing about him.
I have many good memories. I remember watching the Miami Dolphins on Sundays. I remember going to the movies and him always falling asleep. He was probably recovering from a hang-over or from working until early in the morning. He was also a very clean person who always ironed his clothes.
He also had his flaws. He was racist. Cannot remember how many times he used the N word. He was not good at making money. Did I mention that he served alcohol for a living? He was not stable. Did I mention the seven wives? He left us with several questionable "baby sitters"
He died at forty nine years of age.  I miss him everyday. But I only knew him for brief periods in his short life. He was not an educated man and don't remember him writing anything beyond a check.
I hope that I will no be in that situation. I hope that when I die people are only a google away from know how I though and what I thought about. They will also know my bad grammar and obsessive thinking. I am hoping that spell check will hide my awful spelling.
While I share many of my dad's traits, I wish I shared others. This is my attempt at simply leaving tracks and signs of life. Any way it gives the bots something to do.