Do it right...

When I was a wee little boy my dad always drilled into my head "do things right the first time and you wont have to do it again".  This was a common theme in everything he made me do.  When I mowed the lawn and wanted to cut a corner or two,  he dragged my butt out there and made me do it again.  When he told me to vaccum the whole upstairs before relatives came over.  I of course turned the vacuum cleaner on and left it there hoping he would think I was actually cleaning. I was watching football the whole time of course.  Not only did he watch me do it when he caught me, but I got an earlashing as well. The list goes on and on. I always thought it was annoying and I would always "yeah yeah yeah" his advice.

Last night my roomate and I were watching Friday Night Lights.  It was recorded because we wanted to check in on the state of the union address.  It was actually kind of nice because we would just fast forward through the commercials.  If you have Tivo or Direct TV you know there are 4 speeds to fast forward.  The forth being the fastest and would usually just skip through 10 minutes of programming at a time.  My roomate knows this, he knows that remote like the back of his hand.  He decides that during the start of a commercial he would just hit FF as fast as he could and as many times as he could so it would end up on 4X.  He would fly through the start of the other segment backtrack, fast forward again, backtrack then then finally land on his mark.  The first time I laughed and payed no attention.  The second time was kind of annoying.  The third time I asked him "dude what are you doing?"  And finally when he did it again I spoke rather sternly "quit going so fast and do it right the first time and you wont have to keep back tracking, man!"

I immediately stopped my train of thought.  Shocked and a little stunned: "Oh noooo, I'm turning into my Dad"  :) Ironic....