Quote Originally Posted by English assassin
I am a dad. And on behalf of all dads everywhere can I please make a plea NOT to try to talk to us for the first 20 mins-1/2 hour after we get in from work? After that we will be only too pleased to hear that next door's cat sicked up a hairball again or to express an opinion on whether we should get new towels and if so in precisely what shade of blue, and generally to hear about and comment on all the other trials and triumphs of the day. Just give us 20 minutes peace first, OK?

Seriously, if they could only teach this to girls in school the divorce rate would fall by about 50%. If the girls could learn not to interrupt the evening news (especially with endless questions about new towels) we could more or less abolish divorce altogether.
Indeed. I have no intrest in hearing every single word said to and by my wife that day as soon as I walk in the door.

My 2 year old is very zealous for my attention. If I'm on the PC he will come and grab me by the hand and pull me away or climb onto my lap with a Postman Pat book. If the cat is sat on my lap he will push her off and climb on in her place.