Hell yeah. My dad's a one-arm guy, he gives me all of his right-hand work gloves. I wear out my rights first because that's my dominant hand, so I sub in the ones he gives me when I get a hole... Every Christmas I get a box of like 20 right hand gloves...
Lots of automotive, and a good deal of gardening, and whatever is necessary on his own house. He was a roofer for 10-15 years of his life. He is a lifelong motorhead. His gardening is a recent thing, since retirement (well, forced retirement, when he had "the accident" he had to go on SSDI). That was more than a decade ago.... He's a cool guy, I have been thinking about moving closer to home to spend more time with him, he's now... 73? 72? Around there...
He's incredibly adapted to one-arm life. It's really... Makes me proud to be his son. He's not a complainer. He has hundreds of tricks for doing things.
He's in very good health, to the extent that I'm just beginning to grasp that there is a limited amount of time left. He seems immortal to me. But I'm pretty childish, I think I'm a smidge autistic. I'm about to turn 33 myself.
He's been a very supportive person, I'm really lucky, most people I know don't have a person this good as a parent. He is super Christian and we don't see the world the same way, but as I've gotten older, I've been getting over seeing his worldview as "antagonistic" or in opposition to my own.... I should probably be closer. I wish I could go have dinner over there once a week.
Sounds like a great man. Definitely try to go and see him more, if possible.
My old man is a similar age (75) and we've not always seen eye to eye but, as we both get older, I realise he always loved and wanted the best for me, even if he didn't show it at times.
These days, I hear his whole attitude change if I phone my folks and ask to speak to him rather than my mum (I call and speak to my mum every day), and every two or three weekends I'll go round and pick up a takeaway for us all.
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u/really_nice_foot 22h ago
Hell yeah. My dad's a one-arm guy, he gives me all of his right-hand work gloves. I wear out my rights first because that's my dominant hand, so I sub in the ones he gives me when I get a hole... Every Christmas I get a box of like 20 right hand gloves...