World’s Worst Dad Contest
In honor of Father’s Day next Sunday, I have decided to host a contest with a very jazzy button & even prizes!!! You have from now until Saturday to write a post about “The World’s Worst Dad.”
Some of you may remember reading a “Letters from Bob” post I wrote a while back. My father and I have no relationship at this moment to speak of, but our past has plenty of turmoil and lots of letters (mostly from him).
I have not spoken to him since he was released from jail almost a year ago. This week I will share with you a letter from Bob each day. (WARNING - his language is a bit explicit.) Stay tuned…
Here are the rules:
1) Write a post between now and Saturday (the deadline) regarding “The World’s Worst Dad.” It can be a story from personal experience or one you’ve heard.
2) You must use this link back to the contest.
http://www.fenicle.com/2007/06/10/worlds-worst-dad/
3) Use this button as well.
<a href="http://www.fenicle.com/2007/06/10/worlds-worst-dad/"> <img src="http://fenicle.com/images/Worlds-Worst-Dadx200.png" /></a>4) E-mail me at info@fenicle.com when you have posted your story.
5) I will draw a random winner from all the entries on Sunday, June 17th and announce it on this site ~ along with a list linking to all of your Father Day’s posts.
The winner will receive a $25 gift card to Wilson’s Leather Store, a $15 gift card to Starbucks & a SPECIAL PRIZE. (I promise it isn’t anything I’ve stolen from Wal-Mart!) Who couldn’t use a new leather purse and some coffee? And the special prize is definitely worth sharing a post! So spread the word & start thinking of those worst father moments, that not-so-loving advice he shared or just the best darn story you’ve ever heard.
What a cool idea.
I can’t wait to read some of the submissions.
I can’t participate, but I love the idea and look forward to your letters too!
wow. should make for some interesting reading. Not sure I have much to contribute, but I’ll be checking in.
does it count if:
1. he’s dead.
2. he never technically was your father because your mother never had the balls to marry the man you had to share a home with for the last twenty years of your life.
??
i’m actually in recovery from my own angst with my father, though i could drum up a good story…
Oh it so counts Jaildiet!!! Remember, this is all in good fun. Anyone can participate, even if your father is wonderful. You can give us a story about the worst advice he ever gave you…..
I’m totally in! I’ve got two bad fathers to write about…not to mention my ex’s fathering abilities;>
I’m thinking Lindsay Lohan’s dad? Or, ALEC BALDWIN…
LOVE THE BUTTON!!!!
I just might have to participate in this one … : )
I’ve got some stories… I have to think about whether I can write them or not, because a certain someone reads my blog. Will think about it. Great contest, in any event.
Oh, have I a yarn to weave! The world’s worst father lives right here in this town that I’m in. I will notify you once I have woven it. Woven sounds wrong/weird. Say it ten times in a row.
Actually, I probably shouldn’t write it because it is about a friend’s dad, and sometimes that friend reads my blog. While she probably agrees that he is the worst dad ever, I doubt she’d want to read about it on a public blog even if I do use the cover of anonymity.
Oh, oh, can it be about the Ex?
It can be about ANYONE who is a father (doesn’t have to be your father). It can be a story you’ve heard. Bad advice they gave. You can exclude real names…just have fun with it!!!!
hmmm, I have a great dad and my husband is a great daddy for my son. I’ll have to think I have any material.
I can’t think of a story, but I’ll look forward to reading!
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Jesus, I’m sorry you ever had to receive such a shitty-ass card in the mail. I have some doozies from my own pop, but despite his ineptitude at raising an adolescent girl, his heart was in the right place, and he’s a real dear man who’s acknowledged his mistakes, so I won’t share, even for the chance to win prizes!
I do, however, look forward to these entries! (Mostly so I can print them out and share them with my husband, as a how-not-to primer!)
The best part of my dad was that he was CERTIFIED nuts. Not to sound too Oprah, but forgiveness IS the gift you give yourself. He was abandoned by HIS parents. His dad was abandoned by HIS mother.
On a positive note, his oldest son recently celebrated 33 yrs of marriage (5 kids), and my wife and I are celebrating 30 yrs in July (no kids)
18 comments and loads of excitement for the world’s worst dad? Wow! And here I am thinking how nice it will be if I get to see my dad and if he knows me (he was robbed, pushed, he fell, knocked his head, and lost his memory ever since).
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Nope! I would love to have a gift cert to Starbucks, but I can’t think of a story to tell. Oh, wait! I have a story, a four-word story! Are you ready? Really ready? Okay, here it is:
“Alec Baldwin.
The End.”
Sry.
I will absolutely enjoy reading the real entries, though!
Okay. I’m getting on this. Both my FIL and my own dad (now deceased) should win the prize. Or not. They don’t really deserve prizes.
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Wow, what a terrible club that we all belong too. Dad. What an overrated word. You should have to have a license to have kids. What an overrated word especially when you have the Dad that I have. Lives on a secluded private island, owns a rainforest, an organic farm, much real estate, and ignores the fact that he has children. To the world he professes that he is this great humanitarian. Pretends that he cares about education and health issues. His one son has a chronic health condition and takes 23 pills a day.Yet he has never seen him or offered to help in anyway. Always ready to lend a helping hand ,if it makes him look good, but not to his own. What a terrible legacy to leave anyone, that you are not worthy of someone’s love. Denies his own and raises others. To bad that you couldn’t change your genes because these are genes that no one should have. But to all children with Dads that are disasters, we must not dwell on their issues but raise up and become better because of it. If we are lucky, when they die, they will forever smolder in the flames of hell.