reflections

[phinnia]

True story:

My father used to have this hat. Big furry thing, one of those Russian-style winter hats with earflaps. Whenever we took my cat to the vet the dogs there would growl at it. But he loved it, and would wear it all the time. (Well, in the winter he would, silly.)
The car we had at the time was a Volkswagen Golf (diesel) which was this dorky little thing that sounded like one of those windup toys. (My sister used to refer to it as the windup car. I still do a double-take at the sound of that particular type of diesel engine.) And my father would drive along the country back roads with classical music cranked up to eleven, wearing the hat. And when he saw people walking he'd wave at them.
I asked him why he did that once. He said it was not only to be friendly, but to give them something to wonder about. All day he figured they'd be trying to work out who the old guy in the goofy hat was that was waving at them, and where they knew him from.
It's a good approach to take to life, I think.

Comments

[newtypeshadow.livejournal.com]

so cool!

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

My dad was an incredibly groovy dad. I have millions of dad stories. :-)

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Hee, I like him already :)

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

He was a very awesome guy.

[gatafairy.livejournal.com]

That's so awesome! Your dad seems so great, just from that.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

He was great. :-D I miss him every day.

[tsita.livejournal.com]

WE so have to be related, you know.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

You have someone who has one of those hats too? ;-D

[dawnstar.livejournal.com]

*smiles* I always love your dad stories.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :-) The funny thing is that if he heard any of these he'd wonder what the big deal was, you know? Why I bothered.

[lovesasa.livejournal.com]

I like that story.

(Vati has one of those hats, too.)

~Sasa