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Disclaimer: I love my Dad and I think he is very intelligent but he does some very dumb things more often than not.
I am only going to be sharing two stories that happened recently. There are plenty of other stories but I do not have time to write about all of them.
The first story
Quick backstory: my mom went back to school for nursing and she does some classes at a college right next to my high school. This is sometimes a good thing because she leaves the house around 8:00 which is an hour later than I do. This means that if I ever forget something, she can easily drop it off at my high school.
So one day, I got to school and realized that I forgot my glasses so I texted my mom asking her if she could drop them off. She then didn't respond so I just assumed no and was fine without my glasses. Then I found out what really happened when I got home from school that day and it's hilarious.
I had forgotten that my mom started a mandatory one week class somewhere else therefore she could not drop my glasses off. She had to be a home-health aid at a nursing home about 35 minutes away. However, my mom felt bad so she forwarded my text message to my dad and my dad didn't read the "FWD:" at the beginning of the message so he thought that MY MOM forgot her glasses. Then my mom sent him another text that read "I can't help" meaning that she could not help get me my glasses. Out of those two text messages, my dad thought that my mom forgot her glasses and could not help the elderly so he needed to bring them to her. But there was a slight problem, he had absolutely no idea where her new class/ course was. He just knew it was on a certain road and that it was at a nursing home.
He then spent the next hour driving up and down the busy road and stopping at a few nursing homes. He insisted that my mom was working there and that he needed to give her her glasses. I'm surprised they didn't check him in! After going to three nursing homes and sending multiple frantic phone calls to my mom, my dad gave up and just went home. When I arrived home I found my mom dying of laughter while my dad explained the situation.
Afterwards, I couldn't stop imagining my dad standing at the front desk of a nursing home getting all worked up.
The second story
My mom and I were both at school when this happened so we had it explained to us by him. So this all started because we had a maintenance guy coming to check up on our water heater or something like that. That meant that the guy would be going into our furnace room which is basically a dusty/ damp mess. But keep in mind that most people's furnace rooms are the same, they don't need to be nice. SO my dad's first thought was to sweep the furnace room so it looked nicer for this maintenance guy who probably could not care less. While my dad was sweeping, he started sweeping very vigorously and a cloud of smoke began to form. Then our smoke alarm began going off!
After a minute or so, my alarm system called to see if everything was alright and they told my Dad that they were going to send a firetruck and police cars. My dad then began to panic and did not want to look like a fool so he told them not to because it was just dust. But, it's their policy to send them out UNLESS the person on the phone provides a code word. My dad was the one who picked the code word that my whole family knows but he was so frazzled that he forgot it. Within minutes, one firetruck and three police cars arrived at my house along with my two of my neighbors. Who knows what my Dad said to them but my mom and I arrived home about 10 minutes after everyone had left. Now whenever I think about this I imagine my dad sitting in my kitchen with a broom as police start barging in.
His response was probably an innocent, "I was just sweeping ._."
I apologize if there were a lot of run-on sentences in these stories. It's hard to tell a story using perfect grammar.
Disclaimer: I love my Dad and I think he is very intelligent but he does some very dumb things more often than not.
I am only going to be sharing two stories that happened recently. There are plenty of other stories but I do not have time to write about all of them.
The first story
Quick backstory: my mom went back to school for nursing and she does some classes at a college right next to my high school. This is sometimes a good thing because she leaves the house around 8:00 which is an hour later than I do. This means that if I ever forget something, she can easily drop it off at my high school.
So one day, I got to school and realized that I forgot my glasses so I texted my mom asking her if she could drop them off. She then didn't respond so I just assumed no and was fine without my glasses. Then I found out what really happened when I got home from school that day and it's hilarious.
I had forgotten that my mom started a mandatory one week class somewhere else therefore she could not drop my glasses off. She had to be a home-health aid at a nursing home about 35 minutes away. However, my mom felt bad so she forwarded my text message to my dad and my dad didn't read the "FWD:" at the beginning of the message so he thought that MY MOM forgot her glasses. Then my mom sent him another text that read "I can't help" meaning that she could not help get me my glasses. Out of those two text messages, my dad thought that my mom forgot her glasses and could not help the elderly so he needed to bring them to her. But there was a slight problem, he had absolutely no idea where her new class/ course was. He just knew it was on a certain road and that it was at a nursing home.
He then spent the next hour driving up and down the busy road and stopping at a few nursing homes. He insisted that my mom was working there and that he needed to give her her glasses. I'm surprised they didn't check him in! After going to three nursing homes and sending multiple frantic phone calls to my mom, my dad gave up and just went home. When I arrived home I found my mom dying of laughter while my dad explained the situation.
Afterwards, I couldn't stop imagining my dad standing at the front desk of a nursing home getting all worked up.
The second story
My mom and I were both at school when this happened so we had it explained to us by him. So this all started because we had a maintenance guy coming to check up on our water heater or something like that. That meant that the guy would be going into our furnace room which is basically a dusty/ damp mess. But keep in mind that most people's furnace rooms are the same, they don't need to be nice. SO my dad's first thought was to sweep the furnace room so it looked nicer for this maintenance guy who probably could not care less. While my dad was sweeping, he started sweeping very vigorously and a cloud of smoke began to form. Then our smoke alarm began going off!
After a minute or so, my alarm system called to see if everything was alright and they told my Dad that they were going to send a firetruck and police cars. My dad then began to panic and did not want to look like a fool so he told them not to because it was just dust. But, it's their policy to send them out UNLESS the person on the phone provides a code word. My dad was the one who picked the code word that my whole family knows but he was so frazzled that he forgot it. Within minutes, one firetruck and three police cars arrived at my house along with my two of my neighbors. Who knows what my Dad said to them but my mom and I arrived home about 10 minutes after everyone had left. Now whenever I think about this I imagine my dad sitting in my kitchen with a broom as police start barging in.
His response was probably an innocent, "I was just sweeping ._."
I apologize if there were a lot of run-on sentences in these stories. It's hard to tell a story using perfect grammar.