I'm 19 years old, and I feel like riding a bike. I noticed my friend has one that's very nice, so I'm deciding to buy that exact same one.
Well I asked my dad if could help me assemble it (I found out it actually doesn't need assembly), and he's talking about don't ride it on the streets, telling me what a helmet is, make sure it fits my head, tells me how to ride a bike, tells me about brakes that are on a bike, and everything about losing interest fast. He's basically talking me out of it.
It's not even an expensive bike. It's only 80 bucks at Walmart and he's giving me a long lecture about it.
All I need is one for riding around. I don't need a top-of-the-line Schwinn.
Well of course your dad is going to lecture you about it, he wants you to make sure it doesn't get stolen by niggers.
This is very true lol.
You're 19 and you can't even ride a bike?
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OP said nothing about not being able to, he just doesn't own one right now.
reminds me of the time when my father gave me the sex talk. By that time, I had already got laid with a lot of his pal's daughters.
Anyways, your father seems to be interested in what you are doing. He wouldn't have bothered to give you that lecture if he didn't care. Maybe it's not the appropiate way. But he cares. Either he wants to teach you about bike security (wich you MUST know and apply, a friend of mine died due to a bike accident, quite sad way to die) , or perhaps he just want to use it as an excuse to spend some time with you being a father, with a rather ackward result.
Sorry about the bad english, non native speaker here.