These cars may or may not be appropriate for your kid, but all we can say is that if we were heading off to college again, a ragtop Mini would be far more fun and attractive to the opposite sex (close your eyes, Dad) than a Scion anything.
Perhaps he was keeping an eye on dad then, because his first restaurant, Forge, summons some of that straight-from-the-earth spirit.
I paused for only a moment, the perfect response having been offered up to my consciousness in the blink of an eye: No, Dad, hitting me did not teach me anything other than that I would never want my children to feel towards me the way I felt towards you when you hit me.
The audience were lit up, and I kept thinking: Don't catch eyes with Dad, don't catch eyes with Dad... .. Season's Greetings might not make much easier viewing for a watching parent.
"Maclaren is eyeing the dad market," says Shanin Molinaro, the company's global vice president for marketing.
Leslie could have been a much better father in my eyes, but Dad adored him".
This would have pleased my mother, a Congregationalist turned Quaker, who used to roll her eyes whenever Dad, a militantly atheist Jew, launched into one of his frequent denunciations of organized religion in all its manifestations.
He was sending love and good chi to my father, but all I could think was: "Don't open your eyes now, dad, or you'll think Jesus has come to get you".
The troops mounting this nostalgia offensive are not the aging G.I.'s themselves, but their progeny, who not so long ago rolled their eyes when Dad or Grandpa started telling war stories.
