Dad Lore Unlocked: Redditors Share Their Most Hilarious and Wholesome Stories From Their Fathers

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    r/AskReddit ⚫ 17 hr. ag What's the best piece of dad lore you've ever heard?
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    Penguins2451 • 17h ago My dad was once dating a girl who was into golf. She took him to a major tournament (don't know which one) to watch it with her and her dad.
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    She was obsessed with one of the golfers there so she and her dad woke up early. to go around and follow the golfer. My dad sleeps in and then isn't interested in the golf so he goes to the nearby beach.
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    There was a man there with windsurfing boards and he decides to give one to my dad for free because everyone is at the golf. He windsurfs for a couple hours and then returns to the golf around hole 15.
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    He meets up with his girlfriend and her dad and lies and says he walked around the holes and watched a few different people and everything goes fine.
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    He returns to home and then a few nights later goes to her house for dinner. He sits down with a plate of lasagna for dinner and there watching the golf re-runs and the commentator pans out and does a full zoom around and sees my dad wind surfing, zooms in on
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    his face and says "there's a lad who's not very interested in the golf" My dad was dumped on the spot.
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    Power_Wiz_IV. 14h ago This is a story about my grandfather who served in the Pacific theatre in WWII-
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    As I was told, he was on patrol when an ambush occurred. While running back to his companions, a grenade landed at his feet. He picked it up and threw it back at the Japanese soldier who had thrown it, who in turn picked it up and threw it back. They played this
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    game of "catch" for a few tosses before they both realized the grenade hadn't been primed. Grandfather. looked at the soldier, the soldier looked at him, and they both shrugged in that "Do we really have to do this?" sort of way.
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    So the next toss, the soldier pulls the pin and just lobs the grenade way out of the way of either of them, and they both just go their separate ways.
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    Cut to a few nights later, I guess the soldier had been found dead -- grandpa recognized him from a photo in his wallet that a serviceman had nabbed. Grandfather was able to steal the wallet back, and years later he was able to return it to the family based on stuff he found inside.
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    backtothisreality • 16h ago My dad is in his 70's and comes from a large family - 14 brothers and sisters. Money was very tight so on Christmas they wouldn't get very much and ended up sharing a lot of the gifts. He never really talked about the gifts he got but loved to tell us about Krampus.
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    Apparently on Christmas eve, after the kids have gone to sleep, they would dress in all black and "Kidnap" the child that misbehaved the most then take them into the woods. They would then tie them up to a tree and put coal all around their feet.
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    The kids would wake up in the morning and have to figure out which kid was missing and then go free them. When he talks about this, he makes it sound like a fond memory. He said that he was tied up only once and it was very cold and scary. I guess it was a good
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    way to get the kids to behave throughout the year.
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    SouthernAT 16h ago From my dad, but a story about my uncle. Grew up with a rough home situation and uncle was adopted, about 8 years older than my dad. Uncle would take my dad out for treats and ice cream to get away from home fairly frequently. Once
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    dad was in high school uncle was off to join the Marines. In talking with former people who knew uncle in high school they always talked about what a badass and how dangerous Uncle was. Asking more questions, dad found out he was part of a fairly large underground bare-knuckle
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    fight ring and would fight for money, winning quite a lot apparently. That's why an unemployed high schooler could afford to always be going out and spending money, from winning it. Dad believed it, especially since Uncle got kicked out of the
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    Marines for fighting his CO during a disciplinary meeting.

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