Random Badass Facts about my Dad

Random Badass Facts about my Dad

  1. My dad worked concrete for 40 years. I consider him one of the “blue-collared” Americans.
  2. Because my dad was in construction, the guys were always trying to top each other on who was strongest. My dad always won.
  3. My dad could carry 16 8-foot 2×4’s uphill, that was one of their “strong” tests. The next guy down could only do 14 of them.
  4. My dad could also do this while jumping into a ditch, which is partially why he has such bad knees now.
  5. My dad was hired by nerds in highschool to protect them. One guy paid my dad $20/week to keep the bullies away from him.
  6. My dad used to drag-race his 1969 roadrunner all over Baltimore and Harford County. One time in the middle of the night they were all set up to drag-race over this bridge, and when the cars were going by, some idiot threw a gas can on fire under the cars to be funny. My dad walked over, picked the guy up, and dangled him over the side of the bridge with one hand.
  7. My dad used to do push-ups with me on his back to help with strength training.
  8. My uncle says my dad could reload a black-powder faster than most men can reload a regular rifle.
  9. My dad’s 1969 roadrunner was so fast, cops had to set up a road block in order to stop him at one point.
  10. My dad used to be a heavy drinker before I was born, and had a rope tied to the stick-shift in his 69 roadrunner that his friends could hold onto to prevent him from shifting it out of 2nd gear if he was drinking.
  11. My dad had a stroke November of 2000 that left half of his body paralyzed (which is when I decided to move back home from the naval base). When he had the stroke he also fell off a roof and landed head-first onto a metal beam, cutting his head open. He made a full recovery of both.
  12. I met some of my dads friends that he used to run around with, they quoted him as the “John Wayne” of their generation. Not only because he was a bear, but because he never let people get pushed around or be mean to women.
  13. For instance..dad and mom were at a gas station, and there was a group of women there (I don’t know if they were friends with mom or what), and a guy was standing around bad-mouthing and cussing people. Dad told him to stop and he wouldn’t so dad said he just got tired of it and knocked the guy out. Mom tells me she felt the wind as my dad’s fist went by.
  14. A girl was staying with the family who had left her ex-husband. He showed up one night and was giving my grandmother (dad’s mom) a bunch of grief and my grandfather and my dad both chased him off and drove after him. They caught up with him at a stop-sign and my dad jumped out of the car and ran over and knocked the guy out. No one cusses out grandmom.
  15. My dad has the most awesome fumanchu-like mustache. He always get compliments on it.
  16. At our old house, my dad’s nickname was the “Salem Bottom Angel” around the neighborhood because it’s a mostly elderly neighborhood and he’d help everyone out with keeping things in order and fixed.

One Reply to “Random Badass Facts about my Dad”

  1. Crystal … This list reminded me of how much I appreciate your affection for and loyalty to your dad. I can’t tell you how proud I would feel if one of my children or grandchildren ever wrote anything similar.