Who's your daddy?

[abaris]

My mother knew, but always encouraged any intellectual pursuits.

The encouraging part was part of my upbringing too. Especially when it came to my father, who was a car mechanic by trade and ran a couple of shops and held several patents for motor parts. He couldn't attend university because of the war and emigration interfering, but was greatly interested in everything scientific. Especially cosmology, history and technics. When i was a child, I spent more time at museums and archeological dig sites than in Disney movies. And I loved it. But it also interfered with my potential for believing in supernatural woo. I saw the gigantic dinosaur skeletons at the Vienna museum of natural history and my father explained to me that they lived millions of years ago. So the Adam and Eve story was kind of out of the window before I even went to school.