Unexpected Can Be Remarkable

About thirty years ago while working for my dad the unexpected happened.

To set the context, you need to know my dad was all about work.  He never stopped for lunch.  In fact, in his earlier days as a crane operator, while the others were eating lunch he wiped the crane down.  He felt like he could eat lunch while operating the crane.

Once again, my dad is in his element when he is cleaning or working.  To most of us we would say that dad never took time to enjoy life, but he was enjoying life if he was working or cleaning something.

To him those things were fun.

Well, one day my brother Mark, Scott, Mike, and I were working together on a job when dad pulled up.  We had not been working long so it was still early.

Dad jumps out of the truck and says, “Let’s go skiing!”

Totally unexpected.  Skip work and go skiing?  Are you kidding?  That simply never had happened before.

To this day it remains one of the most memorable days in my life.

I have skied many times.  But only once was it memorable.

And what made it memorable?  The unexpected.