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Painted · 12-06-2004, 12:30 PM

Why do fathers blame their sons for stuff that they themselves did?
For instance I was visiting my pa for thanksgiving, and he was trying to get snow chains on the tires for the car, but they broke. He went inside and I overheard him saying to my stepmom "George was trying to put on snow chains on the tires and he broke them. So now we're stuck."

A similar incident, when we were fishing on his boat, and we were sitting around drinking beer and we got a hit on one of the rods. He ran to get the rod but the cheap rod holder on the boat broke off and the rod went out into the drink.
A few days later, on a fishing message board I know he posts at, I found his post for when we went fishing, and he wrote "My son lost a 20 pounder at the boat. He let it go slack.. etc". I know for sure I didnt lose a 20 pounder.

I also saw a guitar amp on eBay "I got this for my son to play, he played for 3 days then never touched again, so here it is" some guy wrote (not my dad).

Thats not to say my pa doesnt blame himself for stuff, and that I dont blame myself, but I was just wonder why he did that.

12-06-2004, 12:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
Painted Pleasure Burn	Why do fathers blame their sons? Why do fathers blame their sons for stuff that they themselves did? For instance I was visiting my pa for thanksgiving, and he was trying to get snow chains on the tires for the car, but they broke. He went inside and I overheard him saying to my stepmom "George was trying to put on snow chains on the tires and he broke them. So now we're stuck." A similar incident, when we were fishing on his boat, and we were sitting around drinking beer and we got a hit on one of the rods. He ran to get the rod but the cheap rod holder on the boat broke off and the rod went out into the drink. A few days later, on a fishing message board I know he posts at, I found his post for when we went fishing, and he wrote "My son lost a 20 pounder at the boat. He let it go slack.. etc". I know for sure I didnt lose a 20 pounder. I also saw a guitar amp on eBay "I got this for my son to play, he played for 3 days then never touched again, so here it is" some guy wrote (not my dad). Thats not to say my pa doesnt blame himself for stuff, and that I dont blame myself, but I was just wonder why he did that.