我爸背着他1982年去印度旅行时背的那个同款包。

I already liked your Dad, but now way cooler. My first bike adventure was taking off and touring New Zealand. Work gave me a bad time about taking six weeks off, so I quit and moved to Germany (and got six weeks of vacation every year). I still ride, but my balance is much worse, hence the three-wheel recumbent. It lets me take a nap on 100-mile rides. :)

A box for pizza, or the tiles that are used to play a game? And 3600 people now.

I read this comment 3 times before realizing you probably meant the board game, not the pizza.

in true dad fashion

You can tell from the 80s pic that he’s way too cool to care about any internet stuff ever.

How about after >20k?

I dunno, that assumes they got less cool over time.

I always try to do this with older people i meet. Really try and stare at them and try and work out what they would look like if they were 20. It took me a long time to break the gap and realize that we all still feel mentally young and just wake up old one day.

This comment deserves an award. Sigh, take my poor man's award, will ya.🏅

I would argue that he is still cool.

That kind of satchel is called a ‘Jhola’ in India. Nowadays it is seen often carried by intellectual sort of people 👍

That reminds me of when I was going to McDonald’s after work and an old guy told me to go to his house instead. I was skeptical about it, but I knew him well and I went there for food as it was on the way home. He gave me a full roast dinner from the fridge and some tea. His house turned out to be huge and had a pool table, a bunch of cool jukeboxes and we ended up chatting for a bit. I started talking about my dad, he did a double take when I mentioned his name, then I found out my dad was his electrician back in the day. I went home to tell my dad about it and he explained the dude basically owned most of the town’s businesses at one point. I felt honoured to have been a guest in his home.

If he stayed for 3 months despite that I guess he liked India?

I hope the rich man may have also let him drink water and eat some food somewhere around all the whisky, after the dysentry etc

The dad lore is insane

That India trip sounds like the start of a interesting memoir! Did your father travel the hippie trail or straight to India? My parents took the route trough Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan to India and loved it the most and travelled the coast down to Sri Lanka from 1981 to 1983. Like your old man they had difficulty eating and getting used to the spices lol, seems everyone of that place and time has been trough crazy shit, my parents were stuck on sri lanka for couple of weeks, all travel was blocked because of some Tamil rebel uprise. The stories are just mindblowing everytime!

i second this, the dad's a smokeshow

He's cute and my type.

Yeah he was hot

Indiana Jones wears one. So does Joy Behar.