Happy Fathers Day

In all fairness, obviously not all dads, and honestly, the same lack of attention can be said for some moms.

I remember as an adult my mother said "I have a big surprise for you!" and showed me this small booklet that had been published for the whatever anniversary of the town next to us, where I went to elementary school.

She said all thrilled, "Look! You're in this picture in this book!", and she showed me a group shot of a black and white class photo. It said it was the 8th grade class of my school. I remembered exactly where I stood in that photo back then, and looked right there. Nope, where was I? Maybe I was mistaken? I started scanning through all the kids, not recognizing one of them. I started looking for my friends, not there. Looked at the nun who was the teacher, never seen her before...looked at the priest and he was a complete stranger too.

I said (starting to become really distressed inside, knowing where this was leading) "That's not my class. I'm not in that picture"
"Yes you are! Right here!" and she pointed to some girl that as far as I could tell, looked like me because she had brown hair, and glasses (which weren't like one's I ever owned). Sure, I could have said "whatever" to myself, but it hit me like a ton of bricks...How you you not recognize not only your own child, but also not recognize any other person, including the teacher, and still think it was you?
Of course, pointing all that out to her only resulted in her saying "Well, you've really upset me now" indicating I was "just making things up" before she stormed off.

I wonder if my father would have recognized me?
In other words dads, it's really hurtful when you don't even know your childs eye color.