More Family Stories
- I tried to negotiate a better deal on a used car by doing extensive research beforehand. I walked in prepared with all the right numbers, and the salesman still somehow talked me into the extended warranty anyway.
- My son wanted to write his own bedtime story instead of hearing one of mine. It involved a dragon, a spaceship, and an inexplicable amount of cheese, and it was genuinely the best story I'd heard all week.
- I tried to teach my daughter how to ride her bike without training wheels using a technique I read online. She figured it out in ten minutes, faster than I ever did, and immediately asked why it took me so long as a kid.
- I decided to learn woodworking as a new hobby, buying a modest set of tools to start. My first project, a simple shelf, took three weekends and came out slightly crooked, but I've never been prouder of anything.
- My son wanted to enter the school talent show doing magic tricks he'd taught himself from videos. Half the tricks failed on stage, but the audience laughed along with him instead of at him, and he got a standing ovation anyway.
- I offered to fix my own washing machine after watching a repair video, confident I'd save on the service call. Two hours in, I had it fully disassembled and no idea how to put it back together correctly.