Monday, May 18, 2009

Flick A Fleck

I was driving to the store with my dad when I just so happened to glance over at him. There on the tip of his nose was a little dry flake, hanging by a thread from the tip of his nose. I figured it was my duty to make him aware of that and told him what was hanging out on his nose. He immediately flipped down his visor to look in the mirror and after seeing it he snatched it off with his fingers.

I watched him as he leaned forward towards the dash of the truck and let the little flake drop to the ground. Well, I am sad to say that it did NOT fall to the ground. Oh no. Dad just so happened to release that little flake (which I can only hope was a piece of dry skin) right in front of one of the air conditioner vents. I watched as that little flake floated on the air currents over to my direction. Nice. I immediately curled my legs up in hope that it wouldn't hit me. I'm sad to say that I lost sight of it. I, of course, began yelling at my dad and the fact that it "could" have touched me and that just made him laugh. As I was going on about it I began to feel something funny in the back of my throat on my tongue. Like a little piece of food or....................dry skin! I looked at my dad with one of my looks and told him that I thought that little flake from his nose made it in my mouth and was resting on my tongue. I was about ready to cough up a hairball!

There are very few times I have made my dad throw back his head and REALLY laugh, but today was one of those times. Despite the drama of the situation (on my account, LOL) I was pleased with myself for making him laugh like that.

What are kids for, right?

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Dining Experience

Dining out with my brother is always an experience. It was no different this evening.

My brother and I decided to go to In-N-Out for dinner. A scrumptious hamburger sounded like it would hit the spot! As we were in the drive thru line my brother asked if I wanted to eat in the car and I said sure. So it was prepared curbside and once we got our food we parked the car at the outskirts of the lot.

Away we went, chowing down on all the goodness before us. We were having a good time enjoying our food and chatting with each other with an occasional laugh thrown in every now and then when I just so happened to glance over at my brother. I nearly lost it in laughter when I saw what I saw. He was holding his little tray of fries directly up to his face and was letting the remaining fries practically slide right into his mouth. It was his lips that had me dumbfounded! Never in my life have I seen his lips come out off of his face like that! He looked like a duck with a bill! I couldn't contain my amused laughter and practically exploded with giggles. His lips were on vacuum mode and I had the hilarious privilege of seeing that. I informed him that I was going to start calling him "Duckbill"---"DB" for short. Unforgettable. :)

Then after he was done with his fries he started complaining that his lips were so dry from all the salt. He looked over at me and asked if I had any chapstick he could use. I couldn't help but laugh as I said, "Ummmm, no............" I wasn't too keen on those lips using my chapstick, but mainly because he'd have to use the whole tube just to hydrate the salt-chapped lips. Pahhhh! I should have pulled out my cherry colored lip gloss. Would've loved to see him use that. Mmm-hmmm!

As the chapstick was a no-go he went to the next best option. Dipping his lips in his ice tea. Poor guy had to ice down his lips to ease the burn.

Good times!

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Belt Stop

The other night my dad and I were going on a bike ride and after about the first mile or so I noticed something peculiar about my dads belt. I was riding just a tad behind him and as I got closer I noticed that there was gold writing on his black belt. His belt was flipped inside out and the gold lettered sizing, etc. was staring out at the public for all to see! As we were peddling along I burst into laughter and told him there was something wrong with his belt. He pulled off to the side near a business driveway and quickly took a look to see what I was talking about. As he looked down and saw his belt flipped inside out a sheepish grin broke out across his face and I started laughing all over again. All he could say was, "No wonder it was hard to buckle." Pahhh, I can only imagine! (Guess that's what happens when you change in the dark.) Funn-nay! Maybe next time he'll turn a light on. Just thinking about my dad walking around in public with his belt flipped inside out makes me laugh, because if I could tell, I know others would be able to tell as well!

As cars were lining up on the driveway he didn't want to stop there to take off his belt so we moved on a little farther until we reached the bus stop up ahead. We pulled off to the side so Dad could do the switcharoo with his belt and while he was doing that his phone fell to the ground. I leaned down behind him with my go-go-gadget arms to pick up his phone. With his belt off and me leaning down behind him, I can only imagine what people passing by might have thought. Hilarious indeed!

It's the simple things that make kids laugh at their parents. Good times!