How Dad are you?
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I took my first driving test when I was a young fragile thing. In those days there was a DMV examiner nicknamed Sammy Davis. I don't know why; I guess he sorta looked like him. But he struck terror in the hearts of first-timers everywhere because he was known far and wide for being the MEANEST examiner in history.
So my trembling legs carry me to the examiner's car, I'm whispering to myself, 'please don't let it be Sammy Davis, please don't let it be Sammy Davis . . . I open the door and guess who's in the driver's seat, slouched down, gazing at a clipboard and looking like today was the day he was, yes, finally going to eat his gun.
Oh, god.
So I get us going, miraculously remembering to do all the stuff, seat belts etc. As I'm creeping toward the parking lot exit, he says, 'Turn right'. I'm good with remembering the turn signal and carefully looking both ways and as the front wheels are about to clear the driveway and touch the real street he says, 'Your other right', and I realize I was headed left.
Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! Acting like I can't tell left from right! Heart attack coming!
That's it, I'm so toast.
To this day I don't remember a single other thing about the rest of the test. In what had to be the miracle of the ages, I actually passed. I sent Sammy Davis a wobbly smile and whispered, 'thank you', and he waved his pen at me, which I took as permission to leave the car and resume my life.
But I'll tell you what I do remember every time I see 'Your other right': I have perfect recall of Sammy Davis saying in a terminally bored voice, 'Your other right'.
And I always will.
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~250.
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@xenon said in How Dad are you?:
Restaurant hostess: “do you have a reservation?”
Dad: “yes, but we’ll still eat here.”
(Expensive) Scotch everywhere.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@xenon said in How Dad are you?:
Restaurant hostess: “do you have a reservation?”
Dad: “yes, but we’ll still eat here.”
(Expensive) Scotch everywhere.
@george-k said in How Dad are you?:
@xenon said in How Dad are you?:
Restaurant hostess: “do you have a reservation?”
Dad: “yes, but we’ll still eat here.”
(Expensive) Scotch everywhere.
Nice... What was it?
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@george-k said in How Dad are you?:
@xenon said in How Dad are you?:
Restaurant hostess: “do you have a reservation?”
Dad: “yes, but we’ll still eat here.”
(Expensive) Scotch everywhere.
Nice... What was it?
@lufins-dad said in How Dad are you?:
Nice... What was it?
Lagavulin - 16 year old. I'm getting in touch with my inner Avasarala.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@lufins-dad said in How Dad are you?:
Nice... What was it?
Lagavulin - 16 year old. I'm getting in touch with my inner Avasarala.
@george-k said in How Dad are you?:
@lufins-dad said in How Dad are you?:
Nice... What was it?
Lagavulin - 16 year old. I'm getting in touch with my inner Avasarala.
That’s my favorite scotch.
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@george-k said in How Dad are you?:
@lufins-dad said in How Dad are you?:
Nice... What was it?
Lagavulin - 16 year old. I'm getting in touch with my inner Avasarala.
That’s my favorite scotch.
@horace said in How Dad are you?:
@george-k said in How Dad are you?:
@lufins-dad said in How Dad are you?:
Nice... What was it?
Lagavulin - 16 year old. I'm getting in touch with my inner Avasarala.
That’s my favorite scotch.
Me too
