To all of us who are blessed to have children, enjoy the attention! But do you know why we chose to assign a special day to celebrate fatherhood? It is really quite a fun and heartwarming tale I share with you here. This is a forum usually meant to inflame, but today it’s meant to spread the love.
Father’s Day has its origins all the way back to the beginning of time; you know, about 3,000 years ago when dinosaurs roamed the Garden of Eden.
Fast forward to Eve and the apple, the fig leaf becoming a fashion statement (still shunned by the Kardashians as not revealing enough) and the whole pain in childbirth thing.
Cut to the chase: The man and woman fall in love and get married, and ONLY when they are married, do the husband-wife thing and a child results.***. During the birth the man suffers greatly. He must silently withstand dark curses from his wife as she loudly and with much profanity forbids him from ever again laying a hand on her. The powers that be (retail merchants looking to boost sales), came up with Fathers Day to reward the men for putting up with this unwarranted verbal abuse. We men are only human; So there!
You may have heard some gibberish about the year 1908 when Sonora Dodd devised a day honoring her Civil War veteran dad William Jackson Smart or something about a 1972 Declaration signed by President Nixon but…who you gonna believe?
***Know that at some point within the next 10 years that same child will open your bedroom door without knocking, walk in on you doing the husband-wife thing and ask you what you are doing. As you will not be in the best position to improvise, be sure to have memorized your story about practicing for the office intramural wrestling tournament.