My Father


We I was:

4 years old:            My daddy can do anything.
5 years old:            My daddy knows a whole lot.
6 years old:            My dad is smarter than your dad.
8 years old:            My dad doesn't know exactly everthing.
10 years old:          In the olden days when my dad grew up, things were sure different.
12 years old:          Oh, well, naturally, Dad doesn't know anything about that, he is too
                               old to remember his childhood.
14 years old:          Don't pay any attention to my dad.  He is so old-fashioned!
21 years old:          Him?  My lord he's hopelessly out-of-date.
25 years old:          Dad knows a little bit about it, but then he should be cause he has been
                               around so long.
30 years old:          Maybe we should ask Dad what he thinks.  After all, he's had a lot of
                               experience.
35 years old:           I'm not doing a single thing until I talk to Dad.
40 years old:           I wonder how dad would have handled it.  He was so wise and had a
                               world of experience.
50 years old:           I'd give anything if Dad were here now so I could talk this over with
                                him.  Too bad I didn't appreciate how smart he was.  I could have
                                learned a lot from him.