5 Awesome Things About My Dad (& A Post-Mother’s Day Bonus!)
Today is Father’s Day, and just like every other Father’s Day since 2003, I’m not with my dad. Which is the worst. The good news is that I get to see the fam next weekend for my cousin’s wedding.
Anyway, my Pops is pretty awesome. I think I talk about my parents a lot. I seem to catch myself doing it often, and I’m sorry if that annoys people. I just really like them. It wasn’t always so rosy between us (high school), but if Ben and I can manage to be half the parents my parents were/are, Holland might not turn out so bad.
Either way, here is a sweet top 5 list regarding awesome things about my dad. And since I didn’t have this idea during Mother’s Day, one for the mom as well.
5 Rad Things About Andy Hicks
1. Dad’s full name is Adolphus Andrew Hicks the 4th. The first AAH was one of the first medical doctors to practice in what was then called Indian Territory (Oklahoma, or home state of Travis Hawkins, today).
2. Little Andy (as he is known to everyone that knows my grandfather, Big Andy) is a workout machine. He will kill you. I know, because he has killed me before. The man does 10 sit-ups every morning for as many years as he has been alive, PLUS a pretty intensive workout after that. That’s a whopping 510 sit-ups EVERY MORNING. To be frank, I’m not sure I’ve done 510 over the course of my entire life. He’s also a super awesome tennis player, frequently beating young, snooty Panhandle doctors and shaming them mercilessly. It’s pretty awesome.
3. Dad owned a pretty amazing full suit of armor when he was in college (and I think he still owned it when he and Moms got the married). He and his roommates named the suit Weird Harold, and would use him as a coat rack, and in December, a Christmas tree.
4. The Pops and his shady frat buddies thought it would be an awesome way to meet hot freshmen chicks if they waited to take their freshman Biology class until they were juniors. The story goes that Dad and SFB’s were sitting in the back & this “foxy freshman (Dad’s words, not mine) walked in. Dad said, “I’ll take that girl out on a date before the semester’s up.” SFB’s ribbed him and said there was no chance. And Foxy Freshman ended up being the Gwenster, and he did take her on a date, and the word is they got the married.
5. My last awesome tidbit about my Dad is how he proposed to my mom. Get ready: He put her ring IN HER SONIC DRINK. It’s so wondeful, it’s so perfect. Dad is also obsessed with buying food in bulk at Sam’s and every month when he stocks up, he picks her out some beautiful bulk flowers. If that’s not adorable, I don’t want to know what adorable is.
And that’s just scratching the surface. Really.
POST MOTHER’S DAY BONUS FEATURE!
And in honor of the Moms, a bonus tidbit:
My grandmother made my mother’s jeans for her until she was in college. My mom wore homemade jeans.
HOMEMADE JEANS!
So there you have it. The Gwandy is pretty awesome, even more awesome than this dumb list of 5 (and bonus feature) could possibly contain. Happy Father’s Day to all you dads, but especially to mine.
