As I said earlier in another post, my family tree is only my mother's side. Good thing it is HUGE and close! When it was time for the annual Tri-Hi-Y Daddy/Daughter Date in high school, I always had lots of "dads" to choose from--Uncles, Cousins, Great Uncles--you name it. It was awesome. So much better an being stuck with one person and not having an option!
My favorite Daddy/Daughter Date story is the year that my Great Uncle Sam Banks went as my date. (How cool is it that I actually had a real Uncle Sam? No he did not wear a top hat.) Unbeknownst to me, he was very ill at the time but he wouldn't have missed it for the world. I got all dressed up in my Sunday best and he came and picked me up like a proper gentleman (which he was--very dapper). We went to the event where I was the only person that he knew but that didn't stop us from having a wonderful time.
The best part of the evening was when they played a game similar to the "Newlywed Game" where the dads and daughters had to sit back to back and answer questions about one another. Since he was my Great-Uncle and didn't live with us or anything this should have proven to be a problem. When they started asking questions we immediately cheated our pants off! He would lean his head back and whisper the answer to me out of the side of his mouth and I would do the same for him. Whether we won or not escapes me--What does not escape me was the fun that we had showing them that we were contenders.
We laughed all the way home from that Daddy/Daughter Date. I still think that I was the luckiest one there because I had someone that wanted to be there, someone that was brave enough to cheat so that we wouldn't look foolish. Someone that after all these many years has made me look back and smile and laugh at something that could have been a much different kind of memory. Although he passed away several years ago I think of my Uncle Sam often.
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