With Father's Day a couple days off, I got to do an essay on what happens when your child wants you to do something, but you have no idea how to do it, and your kid wants it anyway.
It happened to me, years ago, when my son wanted a motorized go kart.
Some dads could put something like that together in a few weeks.
Not this dad.
The essay, entitled "Fake Mechanic, Real Panic," is in the weekly East Hampton Star.
