# Happy Father's Day. Tell me about your Dad **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fathers-day-tell-me-about-your-dad/966463 "2022-06-19T19:33:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fathers-day-tell-me-about-your-dad/966463/11 "2022-06-20T05:46:47Z")
When my mother died in 1968, my uncle… who had a low opinion of my father… whipped out his checkbook and asked him ‘how much for the (4) kids, Bob?’ Bruce was completely serious too, nobody in my family is completely sane. Except for Beth. Hmmm… My Dad spent a week in jail in 1982 and yet was a legitimate millionaire in 1986, 1987 at the latest. Hmmm… click on the link for more. It was a wild ride. > [@The family business: Market Distribution Specialists, Inc (1984-2012)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-family-business-market-distribution-specialists-inc-1984-2012/923289/6): > > _”Betty Ruth, if you continue to yell at that man like that, he’s going to leave you!”_ > _”Mother, you don’t understand. If I don’t yell at Bob, he won’t do a damned thing!”_ > > … > > _”It’s not something a father likes to admit about his son, but if Bob can’t make this phone book thing work at Donnelly, at the age of 50 it’ll be too late for him to start over. Again.”_ > _”It also helps that there’s no money or product for him to steal, Hoyt.”_ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fathers-day-tell-me-about-your-dad/966463)._