What's a realisation you had about your parents that you never realised when you were younger?

I realised that my father is actually shit at his job. It's never something I'd thought about before because he just went to his work and came home. Simple as that.

That was the case until I bought my own home and he offered to paint it (he's a painter decorator). What a relief having a professional do the job and for the price of tea and biscuits...

...except he's actually done a shit job.

There's fleks of paint everywhere. There's lumpy paint all over the wall. He's clearly not cleaned one brush properly and there's now faint streaks of a different colour mixed into the living room wall. He insisted on painting a lot of it white, even though we weren't keen on that, and now I know why. White ceiling and white door trims/skirtings means he doesn't need to cut in.

So either he really half arsed it because we're not paying customers or he's shite at his job.