My Dad is the most optimistic and positive person I know. He really believes every uncertain event and questionable person will turn out good. His strong conviction in his happy endings is always supported by his two favorite phrases: “for sure” and “I guarantee it”. However, he is too often more wrong than right. So much so, that at some point in my life, I began to think of his “for sure” and “I guarantee it” as a curse. Whenever I heard him evoking his famous terms, I felt sure the doomed prediction was destined to fail. Yet, in his 75 years, his unfavorable stats do not faze his own optimism a bit. My Dad continues to happily use his favorite two terms to assure anyone that promises big or small will come through.

I suspect he now knows that his “For Sure” and “I guarantee it” are no longer held in the same high regard as they once were when I was a child. Many times now, I have laughed at his words, and reminded him of the actual outcome of his last prediction, and the time before that. He simply shakes his head and laughs too, and then undeterred, he raises his one hand, points a finger up, eyes widened, and in a voice louder than mine, he says, “Well, THIS TIME I am for sure, and I guarantee it!!”.
Dad

Happy Father’s Day.

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