A Beautiful Father and Son Moment

The Good Old Days, Youth

There’s a great baseball book of essays by Donald Hall titled “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons” that my Dad gave to me when I was a kid.  We used to play catch all the time together in our backyard, and have shared many other father and son sentimental moments through sport, like battling in ping pong in our basement, or going to Knicks games together.  And non-sport bonding too, like when he taught me how to parallel park, or when we drove to Maryland together for college orientation the day after my last high school final.  This video below sums up the beauty of the father and son moment, the true male bond.  It’s a video of a 7 year old kid in the backseat of his Dad’s car riding home after his tooth surgery, smacked out of his mind on dental drugs.  His Dad, who filmed the video, definitely got a kick out of how twisted his son was off those drugs.  The kid is totally bent, like he’s in a cab riding home after a night of college bar hopping!  It’s hilarious, and truly a beautiful father and son moment…

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