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Conversation with Dad

Hilatron: How are things going?

Dad: I'm okay, except that there's nothing to do around here*.

H: What would you like to do?

D: I'd like to be involved with politics somehow.

H: What do you mean, specifically?

D: I'd like to be involved with a group that's working against the Republican majority around here. This state is just entirely red.

H: Well, actually, NH went to Kerry in the last presidential election.

D: Yes, but around here** it's completely red.

H: What gives you that impression?

D: Letters to the editor in the paper, things like that.

H: Oh! Why don't you write letters to the editor, then?

D: Oh, I have better things to do than that.

*The beginning of a conversation we have had approximately one million times, without satisfactory result.
**"Here" being one of the bluest towns/counties in the state.

That's it then! That is awesome. I am off the hook. This perfectly exemplifies why I should keep going to the doctor's appointments, keep doing the paperwork, keep making the visits, but never waste one second of my sparkling future considering whether my dad is happy. Of course not! He doesn't know how. I might as well stay up nights worrying about the tragic lack of time he spends flying like a bird on the wing. I am done.

Posted by hilatron at February 5, 2006 06:40 PM | TrackBack