AS FATHERS Day looms, Britain is trying its hardest to think of any occasion where their fathers did anything worthy of recognition or gratitude.
Tom Booker, aged 34, surveyed the cards at Tesco but was troubled to find they all had some version of the sentiment ‘Thanks, Dad’ which he felt inappropriate for his own paternal relationship.
Booker said: “What if he asks, ‘Thanks for what?’ What will I say then?
“When I try to remember wonderful things he’s done as a father over the years, all I can remember is him sitting in his big chair reading the Metro.
“It actually feels slightly sarcastic to thank him for my childhood when we both know full well he was watching Football Focus behind me for most of it. Especially if I was telling him anything even slightly emotional.
“I mean he seems alright, he’s just not what you’d call an active parent. Presents are fine, he fits the stereotype so completely he’s happy with a beer mug or boxers with Homer Simpson on every year. But thanking him feels like going a bit too far.”
Lucy Parry, aged 21, agreed: “I don’t want to embarrass him or he’ll just get up and silently leave the room earlier than he normally does anyway.
“How about one that just says ‘Dad’ on the front? That pretty much sums up how I feel about him.”
