Dad, what was that you were saying?

Dad, what was that you were saying?

Spend about 60 years with someone and some things are bound to rub off. I was at work the other day and a colleague left me to retrieve something from the backroom. She had been gone for ages, when she finally returned to find me smiling like a fool. “What are you smiling at?” she asked. “I was just thinking about my father, and something he used to say when I was a kid, when I’d be taking forever with something he asked me to fetch,” I explaine…