Dave: Mr. Simpson, if you want to be a good father, you have to
spend time with your son.
Homer: Well, that's easy for you to say, you .. preachy .. egg-headed
.. institute guy! How much do you see <your> son?
Dave: Why don't you ask him yourself? Homer, meet Dave, Jr.
Homer: [stunned] Huh?
Dave: How's your research, coming, son?
Dave, Jr: I think we're near a breakthrough.
Dave: Good work.
Dave, Jr: [leaving] Thanks, Dad.
Homer: Oh, how I envy you.
Dave: Homer, that easy back-and-forth you just witnessed didn't
happen overnight. It took years of effort.
-- The National Fatherhood Institute,
"Saturdays of Thunder"
One morning, four years ago, something happened that I will never forget. I
woke up, and I looked at myself in the mirror, because I happened to wake
up in the bathroom, and I said to myself, "Dave, you have a wonderful wife,
you have a newborn son, you have a good job, you have friends who care
about you, you have a lawn mower that starts on the second or third
pull--you have everything a man could possibly want, and a whole lifetime
ahead of you to enjoy it in....