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So my father and I have a fascinating relationship. It goes from laughing and amicable to "IF YOU WERE A BOY I'D BEAT YOU SENSELESS!"
: / I guess I'm lucky my father is a sexist. It works in my favor most of the time.
But this is actually a story of us acting human, which is kind of rare. I blame the holiday cheer, and I also called him while he was napping by some pool down in California. The lucky ass. So I called and he's telling me it was so nice and I say, "I think you're bragging." To which he responds: "I deserve it." Oh Dad, if not for the fact that's totally something I would say as well, this would have been a different conversation.
As the conversation turned to presents for Christmas I was trying to think of what his girlfriend would want, I've got the important ones of my eleven siblings my Mother and Him out of the way. Now I just have her and the nieces (GOD THEY ARE CUTE). Well he doesn't really know what to get her at this point but he will call me and tell me when he knows. Enter typical Bekkah stealth comment, which is more like a-herd-of-elephants-just-trampled-you comment.
"So you know what I want for Christmas?" Smooth, and you can hear me grinning like an idiot while I do it. No shame.
"I think I already got you something." My Dad tells me.
"Ah crap." I say back, thinking to myself, Should have called earlier foo!
"I can't remember though, I have to check my list. What do you want?" He says and instantly I'm wheedling my request in.
"A boogie board."
"What!?"
"Or a wetsuit, since you're down in California right now." I valiantly do not add that a boogie board would be cheaper for him.
"Why do you need a wetsuit?" He asks and there's this moment where I think, Seriously?
"Because we live on the Oregon coast where it's freezing, unlike California." Looking back I may have still been a little bitter about the whole being down in sunny California while I'm stuck up in gray Oregon right now.
"That's true. I don't know, that sounds like a kind of dangerous hobby." The minute he said this I had to physically stop myself from laughing. But luckily I had an argument for this.
"Well yea, but you're the one who taught me and got me hooked on it." And he's going, Oh that''s right, and I can't help but tease him. "So it's really all your fault."
"Oh I see!" He tells me sarcastically and I can just see his entertained grin. "I will think about it." He says and that's as close to an actual answer I'm going to get from him. Which is ok. The surprise is the best part ; ]
: / I guess I'm lucky my father is a sexist. It works in my favor most of the time.
But this is actually a story of us acting human, which is kind of rare. I blame the holiday cheer, and I also called him while he was napping by some pool down in California. The lucky ass. So I called and he's telling me it was so nice and I say, "I think you're bragging." To which he responds: "I deserve it." Oh Dad, if not for the fact that's totally something I would say as well, this would have been a different conversation.
As the conversation turned to presents for Christmas I was trying to think of what his girlfriend would want, I've got the important ones of my eleven siblings my Mother and Him out of the way. Now I just have her and the nieces (GOD THEY ARE CUTE). Well he doesn't really know what to get her at this point but he will call me and tell me when he knows. Enter typical Bekkah stealth comment, which is more like a-herd-of-elephants-just-trampled-you comment.
"So you know what I want for Christmas?" Smooth, and you can hear me grinning like an idiot while I do it. No shame.
"I think I already got you something." My Dad tells me.
"Ah crap." I say back, thinking to myself, Should have called earlier foo!
"I can't remember though, I have to check my list. What do you want?" He says and instantly I'm wheedling my request in.
"A boogie board."
"What!?"
"Or a wetsuit, since you're down in California right now." I valiantly do not add that a boogie board would be cheaper for him.
"Why do you need a wetsuit?" He asks and there's this moment where I think, Seriously?
"Because we live on the Oregon coast where it's freezing, unlike California." Looking back I may have still been a little bitter about the whole being down in sunny California while I'm stuck up in gray Oregon right now.
"That's true. I don't know, that sounds like a kind of dangerous hobby." The minute he said this I had to physically stop myself from laughing. But luckily I had an argument for this.
"Well yea, but you're the one who taught me and got me hooked on it." And he's going, Oh that''s right, and I can't help but tease him. "So it's really all your fault."
"Oh I see!" He tells me sarcastically and I can just see his entertained grin. "I will think about it." He says and that's as close to an actual answer I'm going to get from him. Which is ok. The surprise is the best part ; ]