We are expanding our departmental web site at work to include more detailed profiles of everyone. Because our department is scattered throughout the country, it's a way for people to get to know each other. So I volunteered to fill the profile out first and have it be presented as an example to the rest of the department. One field was "words of wisdom" and without much thought I typed "If you're not part of the entertainment, you're part of the problem." On the big screen at the department meeting it warranted a small collective giggle and a lot of general nods. There was no doubt that these were my original words, even though of course they weren't.
The other day Jocelyn came up to me while I was reading People magazine and said "I don't know where my bear is." "Yeah, well," I said, turning the page, "if it were up your nose you'd know it." Puzzled, she walked away.
A coworker and I were discussing her daughter's college major over some coffee, and her concern that she'd come back home after college. "It doesn't really matter what she does, if she's the best at it, the money will follow," I said.
When my kids complain they are cold, I tell them to put on a sweater. When they are being snarky, I tell them to stop being pills. When Timothy brings home grades, I ask him if he did his best. Every day when I get home from work, I change my clothes before I do anything else. When I take the paper apart to get the funnies, I do so carefully so as not to displace anything else in the paper. The first thing I do when I'm holding a baby is stick out my tongue. I never scrape my teeth on my fork.
Happy Father's Day Dad
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