The 'Dad, How Do I?' Guy Answers Your Basic Life Questions
by Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Me from Lifehacker on (#53SW5)

There's a joke in my family about the time when I-all of 19 or 20 years old and living in an apartment with my own kitchen for the first time-emailed my dad to ask him, What's a marinade?" To this day, I also still have a copy of the very kind, very detailed instructions he sent me for how to make mashed potatoes.