As far as lawn mowers are concerned, I'm as far from my dad as possible. Not only did we have a push mower, but he wouldn't even spring for a bag to collect the grass. We had to rake up the grass afterward. I now own a gas mower that pulls itself along, you just have to walk behind it and steer it. I'd have a riding mower if I had the money.

I'm not nearly as cynical as he was, but I'm close, but it was life in general that made me that way, not my father.