Happy Father's Day to the man that makes me laugh until I cry. Now, I could write about how great and wonderful you are, but I'm not. You already know those things. Instead, I'm going to write about things that you love/hate: traffic and weather. These are two topics that you have a love/hate relationship with, but they never fail to put a smile on my face.

First, let's talk about traffic. This is such a dad thing to talk about, but you bring it to a whole new level. In my family, we have an inside joke about traffic and it's titled "Summer Vacation." Whenever there is traffic, my dad exclaims it is because "everyone is going on summer vacation!"

There's traffic in January?

It's because of summer vacation.

Traffic on a brisk autumn day?

Summer vacation.

According to my father, all traffic is caused by people going on summer vacation.

Now, let's talk about weather. My dad must've been a meteorologist in his past life because nothing excites him as much as weather. Recently, we had a tornado where I live and of course, this excited my dad. While I'm sitting in the basement coddling my shaking dog, he has the front door open watching the trees fall on power lines. I kept yelling at him to get back inside like he was MY child.

When he tells the story of the tornado to our friends and family, the story becomes more elaborate with each new person he tells it too.

To the first person, he says, "the wind was very strong."

To the second person, he says, "the wind was very strong and it blew my fence over."

To the thirst person, he says, "the wind was VERY strong, at least 120 MPH, and it blew over my fence and knocked over the old oak tree and I was struggling to stand up outside like I was freaking Dorothy staring at the Wicked Witch of the West!" (Okay, so maybe he didn't say exactly this, but it was along these lines.)

All that I'm trying to say here is that I love my dad and I love how passionate he is about traffic and weather. His stories never fail to put a smile on my face. Never stop loving traffic and weather, Daddy, and I'll never stop loving you. Happy Father's Day!