Apart from the conventionally obvious, I also LEARNT from my Dear Father?

Question

how to whistle

how to fling my baby sister upwards and catch her in mid air

how to pop a whole boiled egg in my mouth and eat it

how to make paper-clip chains

how to checkout the pretty ladies while driving without Mum noticing

how to peel a mango with a little pen knife

how to fold the pages of a newspaper for a convenient hold

Do you remember any quarkey unconventional things you learnt from your Father.

Answer 1

Just something off the top of my head. My dad taught me how to juggle. That is the first thing that came to my mind and now it's fun doing it and people seem to get amazed.

Answer 2

how to make paper aeroplanes

how to drive, more importantly how to park without curbing alloys,

how to lay hardwood flooring,

and how you should always paint the celling first when decorating a room!!lol

hes a very practical man and i love him for it!lol

Answer 3

hmm this had me thinking:

how to roughly land an airplane without crashing

how to lose my temper & let everyone around you know it

how to sedate my dog when there's thunderstorms

how to draw bubble letters

how to eat a palmegranete

he taught me to recite effortlessly the pilot's alpahbet (alpha bravo charlie delta echo foxtrot etc....)

Answer 4

How to f**t and feign innocence.

Answer 5

Didn't really learn much from him. He was a 'wife-beater' and an alcoholic, so that's probably a good thing!

Answer 6

That's really sweet.  My Dad used to bore me with Capital cities of the world - I know them all!  And any useless information, only now as I'm older I really find it interesting.

Answer 7

Dear papa taught me . . .

how to survive life in an American factory

why living in the U.S. is simply not a good idea

how to blow smoke rings

how to overcome all my fears and climb a latter (at least to the fourth step)