As we approach Friday the 13th
Tony Goatz wrote to say it would have been his dad's 82nd birthday.
He died of cancer many years ago.
"When I was young, he would ask me to do him a favor such as go out and get the paper. Then he would add, 'I'll buy you a beer when you turn 21.'"
His father died before Goatz turned 21, so he never got to purchase his son that cold one.
But Tony will think of him on Friday. "I am going to buy a can of his favorite beer and sit on the deck and drink it with him, tell him that I miss him and it's OK that he didn't buy me that beer."
