![]() “He also taught me how to drive a stick shift, then accidentally ran over a groundhog on the way home from the empty parking lot where he taught me. The advice from Christian Senrud‘s dad has always been eminently practical - save 10% of every pay check, get your oil changed regularly, etc. (File photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)Cal State San Bernardino Professor Brian Levin(File photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) “He pleaded for me to be a doctor, learn French and play the piano, three things I never achieved.” “His counsel was to never waste food, and make sure you get a practical medical education because his stated ‘ability’ to perform surgeries saved his life while in prison camp, where he was slated for execution for anti-German espionage,” said Levin, a criminal justice professor and director of CSU San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism. Dad was still a kid when he was captured by the Nazis in 1944. ![]() His dad grew up during the Depression and was a teenage medic in the U.S. Perhaps Dad changed his mind when Elvis Presley was Boone’s opening act?īrian Levin had a lot to live up to. ![]() I don’t think that’s smart of you, to be a professional singer.’ “ They get popular and successful and their lives go sideways. So many people go into that profession and get lost. “He said, ‘Look, the life of an entertainer is an iffy thing. “He didn’t say ‘Don’t to it,’ ” Boone said. GUTIERREZ, FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER) They’ve yelled at the waiter, pounded on the hood of the boyfriend’s car, drank too much at the family reunion and told Uncle Billy precisely why everyone hates him. While our dads may have loved and sacrificed and provided for us - and for that we are indeed grateful - they’ve also given us outrageous, funny and just plain dumb advice. When she was a kid, too scared to go on a roller coaster or somesuch, he’d say, “What’s the worst that can happen? You die? That’s already going to happen, so if the worst is already going to happen, what do you have to be afraid of?” He also told her to take French instead of Spanish in high school, “which is probably the worst piece of advice, considering we’ve always lived in California.” Diana Hong (Courtesy Diana Hong)Īmid all the greeting card schmaltz you’ll hear today, we’re aiming to be your Father’s Day reality check. Colette Sartor and Lisanne Sartor (Courtesy Sartors)ĭiana Hong’s dad had a rather dark sense of humor. Their father’s alleged wisdom has provided material that Lisanne Sartor and Colette Sartor of Los Angeles - identical twins, writers and filmmakers - mine to this very day. “You can’t run with the big dogs if you piss like a puppy” was the tough-guy motto of the Sartor family of - where else? - New Jersey. Peter Blake (File Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) “Eighty percent of people don’t care about your problems, and the other 20% are glad you have them,” the decidedly unsentimental father of art dealer and erstwhile Laguna Beach city councilman Peter Blake once observed, setting him up for years of internal reckoning. Today is all about gauzy tributes to the deep, soulful wisdom of our beloved fathers, about proclaiming our eternal gratitude for Dad’s profound guidance on how to live and grow and thrive.Įxcept most of us didn’t have THAT father.
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