Conversations to avoid...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 6:23AM Dad called again last night with more laptop questions. We got everything sorted out and a decision made on which one we're building.
In the course of our conversation, he asked if I'd seen the moon the night before. I hadn't and he assured me that at 3 in the morning, it was amazing.
"What were you doing up at 3 in the morning, Dad?"
"When you're a man of a certain age, you make several trips to 'the men's room' during the night. Women have no idea!"
"I guess that goes right along with the insomnia that most women get around 50. At least men are sleeping when they're not making a quick trip to the men's room..."
I shouldn't have started down this path... I just knew it...
"Well, you haven't had to go to any of those 'men's appointments' where they have to figure out why you're in the men's room all the time. This nurse had this tube and she grabbed my..."
"Dad!"
"And then the dr. said maybe they ought to do the test again in case they didn't do it right..."
"Dad!"
"I'm just saying that you have no idea..."
"Yeah Dad, because for the past 30 years, everytime I've gone to the doctor for anything they start with a pelvic exam. Men don't have a clue..."
"Kidney stones... every passed one?"
"Three of them... you know them as your grand-daughters. Suck it up, Dad."
"I hope you're more sympathetic to TOG when he starts having these issues. You women have no idea..."
If only he had a son he could share these things with! Please tell me we're not the only father/daughter that has these converstations...
AG out!
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Reader Comments (12)
"Three of them. They're called daughters."
BRILLIANT!
This post had me laughing out loud and I'm at work! I hope to god I never have any conversations like this with me dad, ever.
oh em gee......LOL!
::snort::
:-O Oh My. Yeah, we don't talk about those things ;0)
Wow, he's a hoot, and so inappropriate at times. He had Nevan convinced his truck could suck Pontiac's up his tail pipe.
Well, I can't say me and my Dad had these conversations. He would have them with my mother and she would relay them to me...I'm not sure what was worse. I guess it's all in perspective, I wish my Dad were still alive to have these conversations so it all goes back to the same thing....the grass is always greener.
Enjoy the conversations with your dad while you can. My dad is in the midst of serious Alzheimers and is barely verbal anymore, and what he does say doesn't make much sense. It is very sad.
O dear GOD! I really must remember to go to the bathroom before I read your dad posts. They are laugh-out-loud funny. And I thank you for that!
" . . . you know them as your granddaughters." Hysterical!
Three of them - they're called granddaughters - gotta love her quick thinking! Yes, the man needs a guy friend.
that was too funny...