Rhyme & Reason - a reason to rhyme

               WHERE has customer SERVICE gone?                It NOW seems very rare,               Used to be it was the NORM,               ’Twas witnessed EVERYWHERE;               But NOWADAYS it’s D.I.Y.               From pumping gas in car               To recently, “self checkout”                At local grocer store.              With recent ‘puter issues,              I phoned ‘tech’ companies,             They didn’t want to ‘come and check’             ‘Phone fixing’ for THEIR ease.              Informed them I was NOT a ‘geek’               At all that ‘techie’ stuff              But STILL insisted - that’s their way              I said - I’d had enough              Of all their LAZY IDLE ways              Contacted some who CARE              Who’ll actually DO what they’s been trained                                                                                                                                          .           In PERSON, they’ll BE there.

When married, dad rode motorbike, Took mum to see her folk, My gran, it is reported, Asked dad this, as a joke. She'd really want a photograph, As pillion pass'nger, she So camera they brought down To see if she'd agree. She took the place of mother, Then posed, with dad afront, Next thing, did hap'; mum panicked,  "Ma mammy" ! ! ! !  - what a stunt. For dad started the engine, With gran, holding him tight, "Hold tight there ma" he told her, Of THAT day, 'twas her highlight. She LOVED the brief excitement, She loved my dad, e'en more, That love it was two sided, For gran, dad had high score.  

                                         composed with my own father in mind.  F amily orientated,   A drenalin abuzz,   T hey provide the vitals,    H elping, just    because.   E ven when exhausted, their   R ole of fatherhood,   S tays as top priority,   D a d,  just loves his brood,   A sking nothing in return,   Y ou, his child, his top concern.