My Dad Called Me His Disappointment After I Gave Him A $10000 Rolex

a person who has never once had to solve a problem he himself didn’t create.

Then the basement flooded.

Not badly, not a disaster, but enough to require work that cost money nobody had. He had to pay for part of the repair himself, a few hundred dollars from the sneaker sales he had always dismissed as barely worth his time. He texted me afterward, not continue reading …