I Wish My Father Had Pushed me Harder in High School
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If my father would have been more – he didn’t follow sports very much at school. It was more or less reading, writing, arithmetic, anything beyond that was not necessary.
If he would have bared down more and got involved I’d have probably finished high school, but I didn’t have that problem with none of our boys, you know, they went through it pretty good, and only had one small incident with one of them that had to go in front of the judge in juvenile court, but it was a minor thing. So, but out of seven boys it ain’t too bad I guess?
All of them but one is doing far better than I did at that age. Now, that one he’s been married three times and no children and he went to Findlay College out here and took a course that don’t pay nothing, you know? One of them jobs.
He was a social worker, but he didn’t get his Master’s you know? He works in the mental ward up in one of the hospitals in Toledo, but it’s one of those jobs that don’t pay nothing. He worked at the Cooper one time for five or six years and he said – he don’t have too much get up and go. He don’t want to work.
Like I told him, that social job don’t pay enough you gotta go out and get a second job and then you could add to it and that would be a little more money, you know? He’d rather sit and growl and complain cause they don’t pay enough. Then he hollers about these people at Cooper Tire that’s making a little more money but he don’t want to go out there and bust his buns to make it.
So, naturally dad helps him out financially a little bit. Maybe I shouldn’t. Maybe I should crack a whip and say, “Hey!”
But, he was down Sunday and I made him a big dinner. Yep.



