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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsRemember when you were a kid and thought your Dad was Superman...
... and then you got older and realized he just liked to run around in tights and a cape?
Control-Z
(15,681 posts)I really do. Except I thought my dad was Ricky Ricardo.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)unfortunately I remember when I was a kid and my dad was a womanizing, child abusing pedophile....but back to our original post....
I wish my dad had run around in tights and a cape....that would be a great memory.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)And stayed that way until he retired.
Then it was jeans and a button-down. It was a bit shocking to see him in jeans the first time.
He might have been happier with a little whimsy in his dress.
Less barbed stick up the butt and more approachable.
Ohiogal
(31,660 posts)owned a pair of jeans. I cant imagine them wearing jeans in my wildest dreams. And as a child of the 60s and 70s, thats all I wore! Bell bottom jeans!
My dad was a very smart man but he was also very racist, if you can imagine those two qualities rolled into one person.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Even then I had to beg to get a pair. She continued to buy me dresses each fall for school.
It was so unlike my father to be in jeans that we still talk about that first time.
My mother wore jeans as a car-hop in her teens then not again until later in life.
She was dresses and pearls for the longest then dress slacks. Her turn seemed gradual. My father's, not so much.
Ohiogal
(31,660 posts)until my sophomore year in high school. Ugh. All other times it was jeans. I changed out of my hated dresses and skirts the minute I came home from school. And this was the early 70s.
My dad once wore a suit to a baseball game. I was about 12 and even then I thought it strange, but, then, adults always did strange things in my mind.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Boxers and a tee. Happy Solly.
Golden Raisin
(4,600 posts)critical, shaming narcissist who had no use for me. Died when I was 16, which now as an adult, remains a double-edged sword.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)She did things that made you think it had to be magic. Knew things that you were sure she wouldn't know about. I miss her.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)And toy catapults. And him taking me to the school playground when nobody was around to let me ride his moped (which I thought was a motorcycle.)
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)My other dad would be a good Q from James Bond. I could see my brother as a good secret superhero or secret agent.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)RIP, Daddy.