Monday, April 7, 2014

Classic Dad: Part 11: That's My Line

Dad has all of his signature catch phrases and for some reason, he needs to take one of mine. I am a total klutz. Whenever I drop something, spill something, or accidentally break and or tear something, I just pretend like it never happened and say "nothing happened," and look away. Dad has seen me do this hundreds of times in the past five six years I have been working at the restaurant. Lately, for the past couple of months, I have been having these strings of bad luck, like spilling coffee or fish sauce. I guess I said, "nothing happened," enough times to the point where Dad started to say it. But, he uses it in two ways. Whenever he does something like drop a chopstick, he will say, "nothing happened," but, when he knows that I did something wrong, then he will say, "nothing happened," for me.

I guess that is another way to bond with your Dad, have him steal your catch phrase. But that's still my line, Dad D:

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