RP: 10 Things My Dad Taught Me

Dad was kind of adamant when I turned eighteen/nineteen years old that I learn how, above all else, “to pace” myself, to quote him, when I started drinking beer. He never recommended moderation. He assumed that if I was going to spend a day or a night drinking beer, that it was not for any reason other than to get drunk. But, he told me again and again that I needed to “pace myself” and not drink like a “meat head”. He also reminded me constantly that “a lot of people think being a drunk is fun. It’s not. It’s hard work.” In other words, he knew that getting drunk always came at a cost, but the one thing he never did and would never allow me to do, was miss work, or, when I was in college, miss class, just because I felt lousy after a night of drinking/ Raymond Pert , Kellogg Bloggin’. More here .

Question: Raymond Pert offers an excellent essay, as Father’s Day approaches, in which he details 10 things he learned from his late father. What is something your father taught you?