father's day

today I had the "pleasure" of spending the day with my dear dad, washing and waxing my car.

the man, god love him, has a memory like a sieve. In the past two weeks he mentioned to me on three separate occasions, 'guess what i bought' and each time I played dumb asking "what?", whereby he proceeded to tell me about this new oscillating power waxing thingymajig he got and that we should do my car.

I finally relented and headed home to smalltown, ontario where I grew up and spent four hours washing and waxing the damn hunk of metal. i tried hard to keep the annoyed, impatient and bored expression off of my face but I don't think i was too successful....the straw that broke the camel's back was when he tried to explain to me how to properly use the spray hose thing at the spray bay...i made it quite clear that THAT MUCH I KNEW.

I'm sorry - i just am not a car fanatic. Dad passed on many other annoying family traits but that gene i seem to be missing.