Questions to ask your dad on Father's Day

Dads are notoriously hard to shop for and even harder to interview. So skip the tie. The best Father's Day gift you can give the man who taught you to drive is your full attention and a question he isn't expecting.

These thirty are built for the occasion — the first job and what it paid, the proudest moment of his working life, the chance he took that could have gone wrong, the advice he wishes someone had handed him at twenty-five. They lean into what dads actually like to talk about: work, the road, what he figured out, who he became along the way. Concrete, celebratory, and easy to answer between innings.

Bring a few to the barbecue. Ask one on the drive home. Or set him up with our texting service before the third Sunday in June and let him answer one every few days, in writing, on his own time — many fathers say more in a text than they ever would across a table. Either way, you'll have his stories in his own words, saved for good.