THE BACK STORY
This week’s Story Time is based on some fond memories I have of hanging out with my dad in the 1970’s.
My dad used to take me everywhere with him…including to the local pub!
Hey…it was the 1970’s and things were different back then. Hell…we had lawn darts! Foot long projectile death machines that any 6 year old could hurl at a buddy’s head!
In the 1970’s, if a Dad wanted to take his 8 year old son to a bar…well…no one thought twice about it.
My dad thought I was funny and liked to show me off to his bar mates. He’d play the straight man to my funny guy routine. The biggest laughs we would get was when I told an unsuspecting adult joke. My dad would tell me the jokes before hand….I just repeated what he told me.
I had no idea what I was saying but I knew I wasn’t supposed to be saying it. I learned that the hard way one afternoon. We returned home late from the pub and my dad fell asleep on the couch.
I went up to my mom and said “Mom…did you know that Canadian and American married men have sex 2 or 3 times a week?”
My mom said “What?!” And I told her “Yeah…it’s true. But Japanese married men only have sex 2 or 3 times a year!”
“Really?” said my mom.
“Yeah…so dad is really upset.”
“Why is your father upset?”
“Because he had no idea he was Japanese.”
My mom went into the kitchen, filled a cooking pot full of cold water, and walked over to my sleeping dad…
Enjoy this week’s Story Time and please leave comments.
Cheers!
JOHN
THIS WEEK’S STORY
The Joke
We were having a guys night. So I taught my son a mature joke to tell to my poker buddies. Guess who he told it to instead?