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Dec. 31, 2015
When you spend a lot of time with your kids, you start to get an idea of what makes them tick. My son Ted, for example, has a very unique sense of humor. At first, I didn’t really get it. He kept telling me things like, “Come on, why would you even think it’s appropriate to ask if my TA has a nice T or A,” or, “Please stop telling my friends that I don’t know how to ride a bike,” and perhaps most often, “Oh my GOD, Dad, stop doing the same impression of every employee at Benihana’s! You’re so racist!Why did you tell me to do that knowing it’d shock me?” I wasn’t exactly “fresh with the times,” if you know what I mean.
But I was browsing Internet Explorer the other day, and I saw this image that I just HAD to share with him. It’s sort of hard to describe, but it was basically this baby that was looking sad, and it had this caption in big white bubble letters that said, “Is it Monday already?” When I read the caption, I suddenly felt the gears in my head turning. Who else do I know that hates Mondays? I’ll give you a hint- he’s almost 20 years old and he still pulls down his pants all the way to go at the urinal. That’s right- my son, Teddy Z!
So I messaged the link to him on Facebook, anxiously awaiting him to tell me about how all of his friends laughed at his hip dad’s photo. Not many dads are cool enough to be DTF: Ddoing Tthe Facebook. No one would ever know that I didn’t create the image myself. They would see me as some sort of comedy legend, like Woody Allen or Bill Cosby.
When I checked back in an hour, however, Facebook told me that he had “seen” the image without a reply. Ted had told me that his Facebook account malfunctioned like that all the time; it was something about the bitrate and Linux not synergizing properly.
At this point, I had to weigh my options. I could call him and describe the picture in detail, but Ted says the cellular reception is bad in his room, as well as in the library, the dining hall, and the hospital where he works. And since those are the only places to which he ever goes, I can never seem to get him at a good time.
I had one last idea. After a quick Yahoo search, I figured out how to post the image onto his Facebook wall! It was so quick, too- I think I’ll start using Facebook for pictures instead of f sharing articles about how all lives matter complaining on company Facebook pages. Teddy hasn’t seen it yet, but a bunch of his friends liked and shared it within seconds. I guess an old codger like me still has a few good jokes left in him. I just hope my son gets around to looking at it soon. After all, I changed his diapers until he was 12 years old, and the least he can do is reply. Who knows? Maybe he just has a bad case of the Mondays. Ooh, sometimes I just crack myself up!
