Dads are weird

I know dads are supposed to be weird, (sometimes I watch the Disney Channel and all those dads are weird) but my Dad is especially weird. One of his weirdest parts however is he sometimes reads books and then believes he is like the people in the books. For a week after reading the book he pretends to have some new skill that most of the time he does not have. If he reads a poetry book, he'd write poetry for a week. If he reads a mystery book, he's a detective. Science fiction means he's a scientist.

So last week he read a book that was narrated by a dog wherein the dog's dad told him all kinds of stories about his day and explained the many parts of his work to the dog and the dog became as much of an expert as his dad. So, my Dad has started to talk to me about all the things he does at work and all the things he knows stuff about. There's only one problem.

The stuff Dad does is BORING.

The dad in Dad's book was a race car driver (I know this because I heard about it when researching motorcycles and dogs). Race car driving is awesome, you reach top speed and zip around as fast as you can with the wind in your face and barking into the wind. Dad... does computers. And computers are just a reason not to play with me. I do not care about "I Pees" and "See Pee Yous." The only pees I care about are the ones that allow me to go on walks with my Dad. I do not need to know See Plus Plus or how to set up Dadbases. I only want him to chase me around more!

So a message to all dads, your sons don't need to know everything about what you do. We do need your love and attention to grow up into big strong boys though, so throw in an extra hour of playtime yeah?