episode_0028

“You must definitely go to OT. Usually, there are people who say you don’t have to go…but I think you should go.”

“Still…it’s annoying. And I haven’t seen my dad for 3 days…”

My daughter looked like she didn’t want to go to OT university.

But I have to let it go.

Even now, he says he doesn’t want to be away from me for 3 days.

If I were to say that I was going on a trip without her for three days, my daughter would definitely explode with dissatisfaction.

In the end, in order to grant the wish of Arin, a college junior, he has to send his daughter to OT college.

“If you don’t go, you’ll regret it a lot, right?”

“How does Dad know?

“Dad regretted not going.”

“Uh…?”

Mina’s face looked slightly embarrassed.

“Did your father also have otitis?”

I was embarrassed.

How old do you think I am when you say things like this?

“Then there was only OT? Even registering for courses is done through a computer.”

Of course, the computers of my time were very different from those of today.

Instead of using a dedicated internet line, I used a phone line.

It was extremely slow and extremely expensive.

That’s why it was a time when you couldn’t even think about using the Internet at home.

It is true that course registration was done through the computer.

However, now you can apply from the comfort of your home via the Internet, but back then, you had to go to the university’s computer room to do it.

Because it was done in a place with a dedicated line in the university’s computer room… It’s a bit different from what my daughter thinks now, but… It’s true that it was done on a computer.

I didn’t lie.

“Hey..? lie! Didn’t you do it with paper in your father’s time?”

“Dad is also clearly of the internet generation. It’s too much.”

That is absolutely correct.

I could also use the internet.

Of course, because it was extremely slow and the connection environment was not good, I used a text-based community called PC communication more.

“I can’t believe it… My dad also used the Internet when he was a college student… I thought he couldn’t do that because he’s from the analog generation.”

“I hope you keep in mind that my dad is also from the computer generation.”

“Heeing……”

My daughter seems to think I am from a much older generation.

It seemed like I was disappointed rather than disappointed, but on the other hand, I was also quite shocked.

I can’t believe my daughter treats me like a bastard.

My cell phone is the latest foldable phone.

Not an old feature phone, but a modern phone with a real foldable screen.

I do everything with that phone.

Find information, view maps, and manage medical appointments.

Although they are older, we can be confident that their ability to process information devices is at a similar level to that of children of the current generation.

However, there are limits to persuading your daughter with explanations alone.

You have to show it yourself.

Only then will you definitely believe it.

I took out my phone and opened it.

When unfolded, it is about the size of a 7-inch tablet.

“Now look. My dad writes something like this. I’m probably better at using a smartphone than my daughter, right?”

My daughter was startled when she saw the cell phone with the screen folding and unfolding.

I usually don’t use my cell phone in front of my daughter.

It also changes the sound to silence.

My evening time is dedicated solely to my daughter.

That’s why my daughter doesn’t know what my cell phone is.

“Look at this. My dad uses this to view maps and make reservations.”

Shrug.

“Dad doesn’t seem like an old man who can’t even handle things like this, right?”

“Hmm… Why doesn’t Dad have an orange phone?”

My daughter suddenly mentions a different model of cell phone.

Orange phone.

A product that uses a different operating system than the phone I am currently using.

This phone is extremely popular among teenagers due to its great compatibility with other Orange phones and its clean design.

Of course, I didn’t use it because it didn’t suit my work…

“Isn’t the one your dad uses worse than the Orange phone anyway? Other kids said that…”

I think my daughter thinks that way because all her friends at school where she spent most of her time use Orange phones.

“This thing is so slow to respond…huh?”

Minah played around with her phone and her face began to change from ignoring to looking embarrassed.

“Huh? This also moves smoothly? My friend’s terminated phone was disconnected a lot…”

I saw it on the news.

It is said that children from poor families use phones based on Terminate, the OS I use.

Since it is a cheap product, it is naturally more likely to break than the more expensive Orange phone.

“Terminated phones with the same price as Orange phones have similar performance.”

“Ah……”

Mina looked around at my phone as if she was curious.

Now that I think about it, my daughter was really amazing.

People of that age are usually very interested in cell phones.

But my daughter asked me to buy her an old phone that had no functions.

[Students must study. I can’t waste my time on something like this.]

But I was worried.

I heard that these days, all announcements and school activities are done based on smartphones…

I thought that if I used an old product on my own, I would be ostracized by the children.

[huh? It’s not uncomfortable. I know my cell phone only works for calls and text messages… If you have anything to deliver, you let me know directly, right?]

okay. Yes.

Minah is pretty.

I study well too.

For such children, a group is formed around them without them having to make an effort to join the group.

[If you look at the kids, they are busy using their phones and not studying. I don’t want that to happen.]

That’s why my daughter didn’t even touch a smartphone until high school.

I thought I would play with mine, but I didn’t.

Instead, I studied hard and went to the best university in Korea.

“Let’s go to the cell phone store tomorrow. I’ll buy my daughter the latest orange phone she wants.”

Orange phones are expensive.

But your daughter deserves that expensive phone.

“Oh really?”

“And I also went to university for OT. Only then will a lot of the awkwardness at the entrance ceremony disappear.”

“Hiing, I’m anxious to go……”

“More than anything, if you don’t go to OT… your schedule will be a mess in the first semester, right?”

“Why is it a mess?”

” During OT, seniors usually teach us how to make a timetable.”

“Ah……”

“How to make a timetable without public lectures. And who are the professors to avoid…you can only get that information during OT.”

Mina had an expression that she only now understood.

That’s why I’m telling you to attend OTI like that.

In fact, if you’re Minah, you won’t have any problems with your friendships even if you don’t go to OT.

Because people always gather around a pretty child.

But registering for classes is really important.

This is an important reason to attend OT.

“Dad didn’t want to attend OTI either. So I didn’t participate.”

“As expected, Dad was like that too.”

“As a result, my first semester was a complete mess.”

“Ah……”

“Because I didn’t have any information, I had to take the professor’s class that was really hard… and I had to pay 5 hours of free lectures… It was the worst first semester.”

“What should I do……”

Mina’s face changed seriously.

Even though it happened in the past, it seemed like he empathized with me in the first semester of my freshman year.

“If you don’t want that to happen, you should attend OTI, right?”

“I understand…! I will attend, Dad.”

Minah is a good daughter.

Dad does whatever he wants.

It’s the same this time too.

-Tiring-

It’s the sound of a text message on my cell phone.

“Huh? I got a text from my dad.”

“Huh? No one is texting me at this time.”

Since Minah was holding her phone, she saw the text message first.

“…Huh?”

My daughter’s eyebrows furrowed and straightened slightly.

“Dad, I received a text message from someone named Baek A-rin.”

Minah immediately handed the phone over to me as if nothing had happened.

[Sorry, senior. I lost my mind while drinking.]

[I will definitely pay back the trouble I caused my senior today.]

It seems that Arin has sobered up now.

……

When I saw her text, a part of my heart felt sad.

She, who had lived until now holding in a lot of pain, revealed her pain to me for the first time.

Was it cool?

Or would it have hurt more?

What I get from her text is that it feels a little more painful.

I feel this even more strongly because, more than anything, I made a big mistake towards myself.

My daughter is also away at OT, so let’s go to Jeju Island, which Arin wants, at that time.

Let’s take away her pain there.

That’s the best I can do as a senior.

“Dad, why are you so serious?”

I guess my face has become overly serious.

“What’s going on? Who is that person with such a serious face?”

I should have controlled my facial expression, but I think I was worried about my daughter.

In this case, what is most needed is an explanation.

“Dad, you said there was another doctor at the hospital, right?”

“Ah… who is your dad’s junior?”

“Yes. that’s right. I had a drink with that person today, but I got too drunk and my dad had a hard time.”

“Ah……”

Minah nodded as if she understood.

“But I thought the junior who worked at my dad’s hospital was a man, but is he a woman?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

My daughter’s face immediately hardened.

“Ah… I thought my dad’s junior was a guy until now.”

I felt a slight sense of discomfort…

“Anyway, didn’t anything happen?”

With Mina’s laughter, the sense of discomfort disappeared.

“That’s right. I sent you a taxi.”

Because of that uncomfortable feeling, I ended up lying.

“You must have had a hard time sending a drunk person home, Dad. Good luck to that junior later! It was hard because of you!”

“Okay, daughter.”

Mina got up from her seat.

“Wow, I’m sleepy. I’m going to go to sleep now.”

“Okay, shall we brush our teeth and sleep together?”

“Yes, Dad!”

Mina crossed her arms.

I felt her ample breasts in my arms.

But because the things we’ve talked about so far were so routine, they didn’t really stimulate me.

This is normal.

This is what family is.

Feeling relieved…we went into the bathroom to brush our teeth.