As promised, Noah and I have been working on building a computer for him. We finished it this weekend. Now being a huge computer geek, at one point having my own side business, and building PC’s for 17 + years, I do know a few things or two. I wanted my son to do it himself (now that he watched me work on a ton of computers). I would say he did 90% -95% of the work and I just supervised. I was definitely proud of him, but was even more proud to what he said to me when we were done. “Dad your super power is building computers”.
So this made me think what super powers have my Dad and Grandpa taught me.
So my Dad is a very good mechanic. I remember working on sand rails, dune buggys, anything with a VW motor including my first car. The one thing I could never figure out was this, and now I’m claiming this as his super power, was eyeballing a nut or bolt and knowing it’s exact size. “Hey scott 15mm deep well socket” Bam perfect fit. “Hey Scott that looks like 7/16” again perfect fit. I still bring 3 sockets and 3 wrenches to any nut or bolt.
So my Grandpa was a carpenter, the only one I knew that could walk on water. On his super hero tool belt was this thing called “a tape measure”. I never saw him use it so I never learned what it was until 7th grade wood shop. This man would never measure and always cut. Perfect fit. I measure 2 -3 times and still can’t cut a board straight.
Although we come from a long line of Super Hero Dads, we all get our own special, not so super, powers…
Love you dad and grandpa, and Noah when you find your, not so super power, show your son and tell him it just runs in the family…
