And she was wrong a moment earlier: he does not look like anyone's dad.
By and early age, I knew the Episcopal liturgy about as well as anyone, my dad served as an Episcopal priest for more than 40 years.
"We're not out there for anyone but our dad," Liddy said.
Anyone who knew Dad always received goody packages, especially during the holidays.
We say the Our Father, three Hail Marys, God bless the Pope, God bless Mam, God bless our dead sister and brothers, God bless Ireland, God bless de Valera, and God bless anyone who gives Dad a job.
None of this makes it to the screen in any way that would inform a coach, an athlete, a Little League dad, anyone who might profit from an honest story of growth and redemption.
Davis changes the lightbulbs, waiting until four or five blow before getting out the ladder; the operation to move the washing machine, as he describes it, was a jerry-rigged triumph familiar to anyone with a dad who considers himself a bit handy.
I'd never faced any resistance from anyone except my dad, over my fashion choices.
When I dug deeper, asking him how he could be a member of a party that, whichever way you look at it, contains an awful lot of members who are racists and bigots by anyone's estimation, Dad got defensive – "it's just the media portraying things like that.
It's a proven fact that no-one really knows what strategy games are, which is why "it's like Command & Conquer" has been the go-to phrase for anyone dealing with dads since 1995.
