Something off the discovery channel....

I found something out last night, it was one of those rare moments... And now i can't really forget it.

My dad was busy with a steel ruler, some cotton, a thimble, a piece of ancient fabric chalk and those little pointer black scissors my mom has had forever. Yeah, he was busy altering a pair of pants belonging to my sister. And well i was sitting and watching him.

He was having a short discussion with himself about measurments and then he asked me for a ruler and he made a marking on it. I think i heard him mumble something like "three and five eighths" I think that would have meant just a little more than 3 and a half inches...

Now if you know my dad, then you'll know the type of person he normally is, he's a hard man, strict, stern, usually meaning that what ever he says goes. He has worked for something like 27 years [i think, altho it may be 26 years] for the same company. He's worked so hard and if you look at him long enough, you'll see just how much he's aged in the past 4 or 5 years.

He's really a grandpa now..and i mean that with the utmost respect.

But this stern man, was busy altering pants and takin measurements of somethng other than a wall or piece of wood... He held onto the fabric so delicately, with such respect, and carefully and making the precise marking.

I was amazed.

See, my father, was a Tailor back in the day. He worked with his own father and they had their own little business. But that was probably like 100 years ago LOL

So dad, has not really been doing stuff like this in a while, a long long while.And i have never sat and watched him work, and while i did this.. [sat and watched] i saw a whole other side to my dad, a gentle side. Now i know that might sound harsh but seriously it was like watching him hold a butterfly on his finger... and i realised that if he has maybe been in that line of work for longer with his father and maybe someday had his own business in that line, he probably would have been a lot different [well, not entirely but some aspects of him would have been different].

Another i realised was just how much he had been enjoying what he was busy with, he sat with it and it had to be perfect [obviously since it was alteration ] but also perfect because he made my sis try the pants on a few times to make sure the "turn-up" was just right!