That's my Daddy!
June 23, 2015 5:17 PM   Subscribe

 
Aww.
posted by carter at 5:19 PM on June 23, 2015


That's really sweet. I wish you could see the other child (the one who is saying, "What's up, Dad?") as well.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 5:26 PM on June 23, 2015


Ugh! Cute but it was a portal into the youtube soldier surprise homecoming wormhole and now I'm a wreck.
posted by bonobothegreat at 5:31 PM on June 23, 2015 [18 favorites]


I swear you can see him mouth the words "What the fuck?"
posted by grog at 5:45 PM on June 23, 2015 [14 favorites]


Sweet. Thanks.
posted by jonmc at 5:55 PM on June 23, 2015


Aww, yes! Kids rule.
posted by sacramental excrementum at 5:57 PM on June 23, 2015


Soak it up while you can, pop. Your coolness factor is all downhill from here until the kid is in his 30's or so.
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:06 PM on June 23, 2015 [9 favorites]


Yeah, but this is how this conversation goes throughout his entire public schooling:
"MY dad is important, he's a senator!"

"MY dad is important, he's the CEO of a company! He can fire people!"

"MY dad is an engineer that drives a freight train. It's got three locomotives up front, another two behind."

"Dang. You win, dude."
Yes, even in Highschool.
"MY dad bought me a new Mustang GT."

"MY dad bought me a new BMW."

"MY dad is letting me have his old pickup, the one he bought back in the '90s, and we're going to put a lift kit on it and bondo the worst of the body-rot this weekend when he gets home."

"Dammit, we already know your dad's the best, keep out of this..."
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:51 PM on June 23, 2015 [10 favorites]


The terrible realization that my job will never allow for this moment.

I mean, I guess eventually my daughter will be able to hold up a newspaper, point to an article, and say "that's my daddy!" But it's just not the same.

(Odds on there still being newspapers when my 5 year old daughter is old enough to read one?)
posted by 256 at 7:05 PM on June 23, 2015 [2 favorites]


Seriously though, he's got to have a hell of a driveway. It'd be a nightmare to three-point turn that thing.
posted by Smedleyman at 7:16 PM on June 23, 2015 [2 favorites]


"Daddy!" my son screams in delight as I slide open the filing cabinet and begin to put away some files.
posted by Behemoth at 7:20 PM on June 23, 2015 [34 favorites]


The terrible realization that my job will never allow for this moment.

True, but my 20-something son does at least ask me for advice on computer-type issues. Still more tech savvy than some youngsters, boo-yah!
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:44 PM on June 23, 2015 [3 favorites]


Sometimes we have DJ dance parties in the basement. My daughter has fun but she's always complaining about the lights and the track selection. I don't know if I'll still be doing this when she's old enough to see me in a club. I sure hope so.
posted by 1adam12 at 8:06 PM on June 23, 2015 [2 favorites]


My entry and exit isn't as exciting but my kids react like this every workday I walk through the door to my house. Which reminds me, I'm gonna film that tomorrow - these welcomes with gusto will soon fade.
posted by hubs at 9:58 PM on June 23, 2015 [1 favorite]


The terrible realization that my job will never allow for this moment.

My father was a construction worker tossing up wallboard. I loved going to work with him when he worked on the weekends or during the summer. I was about 12 when that love turned to annoyance, 16 when it turned to disdain and embarrassment, and probably somewhere in my mid-20s when I respected the holy hell out of that man for his decrepit body and how it kept us sheltered and fed and maintained our household subscription to National Geographic because I loved the maps.

Now my four year old son perches on my lap and watches me make maps. He has helped me remove or add parcels to National Wildlife Reserves, track subsistence hunters in Alaska and all sorts of other maps that are no where near as pretty as the various atlases roaming the house. And he almost invariably asks within an hour of waking up if we are "making maps today." From experience, I know that interest is very impermanent and precious.

I hope at some point in 20 years or so my son also remembers kicking it on my lap and playing with maps. The 20 years in-between I know will be filled with a lot of strain and disconnect. But I do so hope he eventually does remember.
posted by Johnny Hazard at 10:06 PM on June 23, 2015 [35 favorites]


Oh bonobothegreat....WEEPY WORMHOLE.
posted by metasav at 10:55 PM on June 23, 2015


My daughter was three when I started on the railroad. I was assigned to a section house on the other side of the state during the week, home on weekends. Passing trains reduced her to tears.

This was nice.
posted by The Hamms Bear at 11:02 PM on June 23, 2015 [2 favorites]


Since it probably doesn't warrant a post of its own:
This Fan Might Have Snagged the Greatest Catch in Baseball History—While Feeding a Baby.
posted by Joe in Australia at 11:26 PM on June 23, 2015 [1 favorite]


just imagine the huge smile on dad's face too
posted by lzd at 11:31 PM on June 23, 2015 [1 favorite]


I get a little dose of this every weekday when I pick up my 4 yo from kindergarten.
posted by Harald74 at 1:33 AM on June 24, 2015


This Fan Might Have Snagged the Greatest Catch in Baseball History—While Feeding a Baby.

My wife totally walks around while breastfeed... oh, a dad!

Also cool, smile.
posted by alasdair at 2:17 AM on June 24, 2015


Nah, you all wrong. That kid went - WTF, daddy really does have the best job in the world, that means - OMG - that means, I can be ANYTHING I want. Superman is probably real. Magic. Tooth fairy. Holy fuck - my parents weren't faking Santa Claus!?! My whole world view is upside down.
posted by b33j at 2:18 AM on June 24, 2015 [2 favorites]


I get a little dose of this every weekday when I pick up my 4 yo from kindergarten.

It's cool that you were able to get the kid into a school so close to the train station.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 4:35 AM on June 24, 2015 [4 favorites]


Wow, Daddy really does have godlike powers! His train just goes on and on.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 5:00 AM on June 24, 2015


Awwww....That really hits home. It reminds me of the first time I saw my dad in a fire truck.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:01 AM on June 24, 2015


I felt exactly the same when I discovered my father was a psychopharmacologist.
posted by maxsparber at 6:45 AM on June 24, 2015 [2 favorites]


same feeling in my teens when my dad took me up in a C-130...
posted by judson at 9:40 AM on June 24, 2015


This song by a guy who's dad was (presumably, genuinely) a JCB driver captures a lot of the same feelings. It's a nice song.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 10:03 PM on June 25, 2015 [1 favorite]


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