Earlier this year, I wrote about how my father is a man of few words and even fewer phone calls. Basically, if he calls, especially when I'm at work, someone is dead. Every now and then, though, he'll throw you a curve. Like just now. The scene: now, about the time he arrives home from school (he's a teacher) and my ill mother is home waiting for him as they usually go out to dinner.
*my office phone rings*
My father (breathlessly): "Busy Mom!" (OK, he called me by my name, but whatever)
Me: *tries not to crap pants*
My father: "Are you and the kids planning to come to the play (performed at his school, he works in the box-office)?"
Me: *tries to resume breathing* "I don't know yet, is something wrong?"
My father: "I just wanted to find out because I lost your tickets. You can still get in, I just wanted to know."
Me; "Do you need to know right now?"
My father: "No."
Gah. He's killing me.
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hee. You gotta love dads. They love to scare the bejesus out of their kids ;)
I suppose it's fair to say when he needs to know...HE NEEDS TO KNOW.
Isn't that funny how our lives become so routine that a misplaced phone call causes us to stop breathing? If our phone rings after midnight, I can never get back to sleep, even if it's a wrong number.
Isn't that why we love them?
:)
-G
Well, are you?? Going to to the play?? Inquiring minds want to know!
What's funny is he has no idea he is doing that to you. Aren't parents of adult parents fun??? NOT!!
OMG. Your dad has been channeling my dad. I totally relate to the crap-your-pants feeling when you hear your dad's voice on the phone.
My dad called a few weeks ago for the first time in months to tell me my stepmother's brother-in-law had died.
Typical.
I.KID.YOU.NOT.
We have GOT to be related, maybe cousins. My dad is EXACTLY like this. And, he'll do stuff like that, like call (which NEVER happens) just to make me tinkle on the floor.
Do you think there is a club?
'Father's of few words'
When they speak, we listen.
Fortunately the message is usually stange in a cute/funny/what? kind of way.
hahahah!!! perhaps it WAS a matter of vast importance to him? hah!