# What do you want for Father's Day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827 "2014-06-15T16:08:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/1 "2014-06-15T16:08:26Z")
[I’d like a second car.](http://www.koenigsegg.com/models/one1/) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/2 "2014-06-15T16:25:07Z")
My father. ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/3 "2014-06-15T16:46:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > My father. Me, too. He’s been gone 31 years ☹ (I was barely 26 when he died). I’d love to have him back so I could honor him on Father’s Day. [slight hijack]: I’m always glad when Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are over. The incessant reminders from retailers to “Remember Mom” and “Remeber Dad” are like being jabbed with a pin. Daddy’s been gone a long time, Mom’s been gone over 13 years. You’d think I’d be over it by now, but I’m not.[/end hijack] ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/4 "2014-06-15T17:06:47Z")
My dad died two weeks ago. He lived a long life and he was very frail and suffering from dementia when passed, so it was time and all that - but I’ve still been bothered by all the Father’s Day ads and such as well. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/5 "2014-06-15T17:11:29Z")
Well, this went south fast. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/6 "2014-06-15T17:18:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Well, this went south fast. Sorry! Hope you have a great Father’s Day (even if you don’t get the cool car!) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/7 "2014-06-15T17:18:26Z")
To be left alone. Every year my gift is to let me play video games. My standard birthday present, as well. Haven’t received it yet. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/8 "2014-06-15T17:19:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Well, this went south fast. Sorry about that **Czarcasm**. It was my fault. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/9 "2014-06-15T18:21:33Z")
An hour with my dad would be nice. He died when I was a very young adult and I was his guardian for the last six months of his life (in a coma). Our last conversation was a pissy little fight over something pointless, kind of uncharacteristic and thus something that still stings over 30 years later. A call from my middle daughter would be nice, too. It’s been a couple of years for no real reason except that she hit the skids and has proven help-proof… more that she’s embarrassed to call and let me know she’s still couch-hopping than any kind of friction or estrangement. But the big-ass porterhouse waiting upstairs will be a nice treat. We’ve reduced our cow intake to reduce our cash outflow and I don’t get nice cuts often enough any more. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/10 "2014-06-15T18:33:07Z")
I went out for a nice breakfast with the family. I was told I would be making breakfast but f- that. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/11 "2014-06-15T19:26:42Z")
I got to be the (step)dad of one of the finest people I’ve ever known. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/12 "2014-06-15T20:41:12Z")
We were discussing this at lunch - what we would have gotten my husband had he lived to see this Father’s Day. Son said new shoes. Daughter would have made his favorite meal - spaghetti. We just sat down for lunch, had fun and remembered him. He would have approved. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/13 "2014-06-15T20:44:54Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > My dad died two weeks ago. He lived a long life and he was very frail and suffering from dementia when passed, so it was time and all that - but I’ve still been bothered by all the Father’s Day ads and such as well. Bless you. My husband died a month ago today. He was 45. Father’s Day ads have been tough for our teenagers. Our son just turned 16 end of May, I turned 50 yesterday and our daughter turns 15 end of June. Mother’s Day was our last together as a family to have him with us. It’s not been easy. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/14 "2014-06-15T21:02:00Z")
> [@jayrey](#): > > Me, too. He’s been gone 31 years ☹ (I was barely 26 when he died). I’d love to have him back so I could honor him on Father’s Day. > > [slight hijack]: I’m always glad when Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are over. The incessant reminders from retailers to “Remember Mom” and “Remeber Dad” are like being jabbed with a pin. Daddy’s been gone a long time, Mom’s been gone over 13 years. You’d think I’d be over it by now, but I’m not.[/end hijack] Me too. I hate being told “happy Mother’s Day” by retail or restaurant folks because I never got to be a mother. They don’t know that so I usually just say thanks but it stings. > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > I got to be the (step)dad of one of the finest people I’ve ever known. That’s such a sweet thing to say! To the OP… Hot Wheels or Matchbox? 😃 I always have trouble buying for the dads. Moms are easier: flowers, perfume, tchotchkes… Now I just do cards and a phone call. They all live states away. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/15 "2014-06-15T21:36:46Z")
My father wants and gets the same thing every year: [soused herring](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soused_herring). It’s the start of the herring season in the Netherlands, the Hollandse Nieuwe come in. It’s what he used to get his father for Father’s Day too. We lift the delicious little fishy by the tail and lower it into our mouth like that. It makes him a happy Papa. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/16 "2014-06-16T15:41:21Z")
> [@gracer](#): > > My father wants and gets the same thing every year: [soused herring](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soused_herring). Well, this went soused fast. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/17 "2014-06-16T15:42:59Z")
I want my molecules back. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/18 "2014-06-16T17:04:10Z")
I didn’t know what I wanted for Father’s Day, but my daughter did, so I got it. Regards, Shodan A Hogwart’s T-shirt, and two sets of playing cards with Batman and Spider-Man on the backs. They took me to the X-Men movie, and we spent last evening playing cards. Wearing my new T-shirt. It was darn near perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/19 "2014-06-16T17:18:17Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I didn’t know what I wanted for Father’s Day, but my daughter did, so I got it. > > Regards, > Shodan > > A Hogwart’s T-shirt, and two sets of playing cards with Batman and Spider-Man on the backs. They took me to the X-Men movie, and we spent last evening playing cards. Wearing my new T-shirt. It was darn near perfect. You’ve got good kids. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827/20 "2014-06-16T17:34:22Z")
I do indeed. The two best around. Their mother thinks so too, so AFAICT that settles it. 😃 Regards, Shodan [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-fathers-day/690827.md?page=2)