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Walking around on my lunch and pass a field, some guy is playing soccer with his kid or something. I approach a guy watching and start watching the watcher cause I think it's weird some guy watching another guy ... but then I was watching THAT guy
He sees me watching him and say "That's a nice thing to see on Fathers Day"
I just smiled and said yeah and moved on. I wasn't going to say "Well I never met my Dad" and be an ass, the guy was enjoying this moment with strangers and I didn't want to ruin his mood.
Doesn't really bother me tho I grew up with my Grandfather who filled in for the father role, A lot of people get less.
But I also recently found out that I'll pretty much never have children, however I was expecting that and made peace with it.
People say things to strangers all the time without thinking "That's a nice thing to see on Fathers Day" or "When are you guys having kids" - I have to remind myself that they mean no harm
One time I was walking badly through a parking lot and stumbled and bumped into a guy's side mirror, he was in the car ... the mirror took no damage. The guy was like "HEY WHY DON'T YOU WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING" ... so I immediately was like "My Dad just died so I'm sorry I bumped slightly into your mirror!!!" and I think I messed him up. lol but he came at me hard first.
Anyway
He sees me watching him and say "That's a nice thing to see on Fathers Day"
I just smiled and said yeah and moved on. I wasn't going to say "Well I never met my Dad" and be an ass, the guy was enjoying this moment with strangers and I didn't want to ruin his mood.
Doesn't really bother me tho I grew up with my Grandfather who filled in for the father role, A lot of people get less.
But I also recently found out that I'll pretty much never have children, however I was expecting that and made peace with it.
People say things to strangers all the time without thinking "That's a nice thing to see on Fathers Day" or "When are you guys having kids" - I have to remind myself that they mean no harm
One time I was walking badly through a parking lot and stumbled and bumped into a guy's side mirror, he was in the car ... the mirror took no damage. The guy was like "HEY WHY DON'T YOU WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING" ... so I immediately was like "My Dad just died so I'm sorry I bumped slightly into your mirror!!!" and I think I messed him up. lol but he came at me hard first.
Anyway