My Angel Wears a Helmet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798257606991)

Some men grow wiser with age. Joe Nichols is not one of those men.

In this collection of true stories spanning three generations, Nichols chronicles the specific kind of idiocy that runs in families like a jawline - his father's, his own, and now his children's. From filming a military birth covered head to toe in helicopter fluid, to overvolting a six-year-old's Barbie car into a neighborhood menace, to going airborne off a waterslide in front of an audience of mothers and children who had trusted him, these are the stories that get told at Thanksgiving whether you want them to or not.

This is not a parenting book. It is not a self-help book. It is the honest account of a man who has reached for excellence his entire life and landed, on more than one occasion, in someone's rose bushes.

At the center of it all is his father - a dry, patient, infuriatingly capable man who once handed his son a wrench and said nothing else. The revenge took years. It was worth it.

If you have ever done something catastrophically stupid with complete confidence, finished it anyway, and somehow loved the story afterward, this book was written for you. And possibly about you.