[Rhodes22-list] Public Service Announcement - Alcohol usage (humor)

[Herb Parsons]

Well you shouldn't have said you liked it. That's almost as good as 
"permission" for another.

When my oldest was preparing for her first ever date (which means the 
first ever date in our household, other than the adults of course) she 
was trying hard to be ready before he got there so he wouldn't "get" to 
spend much time with me in the living room, with the mantle full of 
daughter photos surrounded by karate trophies (all won as an adult), and 
the always "good for a conversation" broken cement block, that I broke 
with my hand.

She didn't make it, we had a good five minutes together.

After a little bit of conversation (things like "did it hurt your hand" 
- and "no, but it hurt the brick"), there was a lull. I jumped at the 
opportunity.

"I'd like to ask you something" I said. "My wife and my four daughters 
are the most precious things God has entrusted to me in my life. Tell me 
what there is about you, that I should trust one of them to you, for 
even a couple of hours."

He stuttered for a few seconds, and I said "It's a rhetorical question, 
you don't need to answer. But, you do need to keep in mind every moment 
you have my daughter with you tonight."

My oldest, who made it the room just in time for that, was duly 
humiliated of course. My wife cried because she was so proud. My other 
three (who were listening and giggling in the kitchen) were torn between 
being proud and being the most precious things God had entrusted to me, 
and being scared to death of being humiliated in turn when their times 
came around (they were).

It was quite a successful evening, all in all.

That guy's not around either, nor is HE on the bottom of a lake 
somewhere - but her current husband recently came to work for the 
company I run, so I guess she got over the humiliation.


ben wrote:
> I like that story.  There's never any harm in letting your daughters'
> courters think you're crazy, if just as a thought in the back of their mind.
> My good buddy Sharples -- he rode with me to Edenton to pick up Velvet Elvis
> after her post-Katrina refit -- just had a daughter last year, and I fear
> for her future boyfriends.  He is a legitimate nutcase.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Herb Parsons
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 2:51 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Public Service Announcement - Alcohol usage
> (humor)
>
> My kids were brought up "giving back from the receiving end", it was one 
> of the things that made brining up 4 girls fun!!
>
> They still sit around at family gatherings reminiscing over some of the 
> gags.
>
> I think I told the story about the body in Lake Lewisville once, but 
> it's worth repeating.
>
> I had my wife, my youngest with her husband, and one of the middle 
> daughters with her new boyfriend all on a night sail with me. We were 
> just shooting the breeze while sailing to the end of the lake and back, 
> and the talk turned to the fact that a body on nearby Lake Lewisville 
> had been found wrapped in chains.
>
> I made a comment to the effect of "That's bad. You know, if you wrap 
> those bodies up right, they never come back up to mess with your family".
>
> Everyone laughed except the new boyfriend. They laughed harder when they 
> noticed he wasn't laughing. Then my middle one said "That's just my dad, 
> don't worry about him".
>
> I, of course, barely smiled (it's part of the effect).
>
> I haven't seen the guy in a long time - but trust me, he's not on the 
> bottom of a lake anywhere...
>
> Trust me.
>
>
> ben wrote:
>   
>> That's hilarious.  I can't wait until mine is old enough to give me a hard
>> time.  He better be tough enough to take it on the receiving end too!
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
>> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Brad Haslett
>> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 9:03 AM
>> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Public Service Announcement - Alcohol usage
>> (humor)
>>
>> Mike,
>>
>> That's funny! One Halloween when my boys were about 8 and 10 I was
>> suffering from Bells Palsy (had it twice) and the right side of my
>> face was broken.  They both carved pumpkins that year with the smile
>> and eye drooping on the right side. Punks!
>>
>> Why do we have children?
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Michael D. Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com>
>> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Don't leave alcohol near pumpkins!
>>>
>>> (see attached image)
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> s/v Shanghaid'd Summer ('81)
>>>       Nissequogue River, NY
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