Father's Day

I was at Target tonight looking at Cards for Father's Day. I began to be sad that I'm not closer to my dad. Then I got really angry.

All the cards that talk about what "what a great dad you are" just fucking pissed me off when I looked at my kids standing there looking at cards.

Great Dad's? That's not their experience. Their dad's rarely call and when they do, it's because they want something. They don't call very rarely to say much beyond hi! Ocassionally, but more on the side of hardly ever, do they call and ask to see the kids.

DS' dad does call to see him but he has taken to a habit of not calling. Do I care? No, I don't. I'm glad he doesn't call because I don't even want him to have contact with my son but he does.

DD's dad is self absorbed and lazy...oh, add unemployed to that. He didn't even have the balls to call and tell me he moved and lost his job. Of course, he doesn't care that his loss of a job affects my family's income. I mean, a simple "don't expect a check" would be nice as I try to budget money for the month.

Basically, I get no courtesies from them. I've been left to raise two kids by myself and with the help of my mother. They are both shitty father's and I'm suppose to spend $2.92 at the store to basically buy a card that lies about what kind of dad's they are?

How about a card that says this:

I searched and searched the card store for the perfect card and none were apprpriate. So I made my own....it goes like this........Happy Deadbeat Day Dad? How come you never call?

Yeah, I'm bitter. My kids are great kids and the one person that's suppose to treat them like the prince and princess they are honestly don't give a rats ass. I opted not to spend the $2.95 each on the card. They can go fuck themselves!