Cool things your Father taught you.

[Reservoir Dog]

My Father taught me how to play poker. He started when I was about 5 years old. I've turned into a pretty darn good poker player if I do say so myself.

My Father taught me how to fish. I never did turn into much of a fisherman, but it was countless hours spent with my Father and you can't replace something like that.

My Father taught me how to be a driveway mechanic. I got pretty darn good at it and it lead to what I chose as my major in college.

My Father taught me how to shoot. Handguns, rifles, shotguns... you name it, I've fired it. I'm right-handed and have uncorrectable 20/200 vision in my right eye but he was able to teach me how to shoot left-handed. That was no small feat.

My Father was a whiskey connoisseur who had an encyclopedic knowledge of whiskey. I never turned down an opportunity to learn about whiskeys from him and he was eager to teach me.

[CaptQuint]

My Father taught me to drive when I was 11 because he got drunk in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania and made me drive back to NYC

[necronomous]

Only you can make you happy.

Pool

Swim

Hard work

Draw

[QillerDaemon]

There really aren't that many things that Dad directly taught me. A few odds things, like ship dead reckoning with a sextant, along with basic boat handling and knot making. Mostly nautical stuff. Other things he figured a guy should know how to do, but I wound up learning them on my own without his help. Usually just his criticism. I also learned to cook, but by doing exactly *opposite* the way he did. How to handle a rifle is another, but unfortunately I never learned his knack at ammo reloading, sadly.

I have my father's tastes in a lot of stuff though, like music and reading. And porn.
Edit: and also his somewhat socialistic leaning politics.

[WestTexasCrude]

Actually different from some of these other responses. He taught me responsibility, hard work, kindness, civic duty,etc the list is pretty long.

[HighNDry]

My deadbeat father taught me how to trick the parking meters using the ring tops from beer cans. Unfortunately for me I was 5 and didn’t drive or drink. By the time I was old enough to use this knowledge beer cans no longer used ring tops and parking meters were different.

The asshole also bought me a set of encyclopedias when I was born, so by the time I was able to use them the info was almost a decade outdated. Thanks, you useless fuck!

[Antknot]

Dad taught me about tools and how to use them. He instilled a love of science that led to my career.

He also taught me how to get out of painting the house. (The secret is: When first asked say yes, start immediately, do a crappy job, splatter paint everywhere. You'll never be asked again)