October 20th, 2005saving lives is so much less complicated…
My dad’s hardly ever allowed to go shopping by himself. Mainly because he a) tends to come home with too much random stuff, b) spends to much money on random stuff and c) forgets what he was supposed to buy in the first place.
His latest toy—which he hasn’t purchased because my mom would have killed him—is the Roboraptor from Radio Shack. He wants to use it to chase the cats at home. :::eyes rolling:::
Anyway, the other day he was at Walmart buying a vacuum cleaner (which he subsequently took back because it was seriously used… then the people at Walmart thought he hadn’t paid for it and was returning it, etc., so they gave him grief and after returning it, he left and went to Target… vowing to never, ever step foot in Walmart again)—and he saw a movie bin and decided to paw through it. He came home with a vacuum cleaner and four movies, but without the Diet Coke. 😛
One of the movies he got was Alexander.
“It was a really great price,” he said. “I couldn’t pass it up.”
So after cooking lobster tonight (yum), we decided to pop in a movie.
Alexander was first.
I couldn’t manage to jump to the menu on the DVD.
It was just a “Making of” feature.
My dad asks, snickering, “Did you put in the wrong DVD?”
So I went over to check and see… and lo and behold, I did not.
In fact, I had put in the right DVD. The only one he brought home.
It wasn’t my fault he didn’t read the DVD case.
That read, in bold type, right on the top of the cover:
EXCLUSIVE PROMOTIONAL DISC
DOES NOT CONTAIN THE FILM
My mom and I were convulsing with laughter.
Of course, that could be partially caused by the large quantities of vodka and rum we have consumed.
hehe 🙂
LOL for the toy. Man, it really looks diabolic!!?? for sure it would have been really helpful with the cats lol
Comment by Me, Myself and I — October 21, 2005 @ 12:57 am
dads are so much more cute when they start to lose their minds.
Comment by wendykat — October 21, 2005 @ 6:19 am
annes right! ur dad is seriously cute 🙂
Comment by Prerona — October 21, 2005 @ 6:21 am
oh and you think just buying a roboraptor is bad? my dad is building a robot… so goofy.
http://67.120.177.81/DotNetNuke/Default.aspx?tabid=98
Comment by wendykat — October 21, 2005 @ 6:21 am
that’s hysterical!
Comment by Moxie — October 21, 2005 @ 11:12 am
Holy crap, $119 for the Roboraptor! Your Dad can pay me that much and I’ll chase the kitties around for him…
Comment by Le Will — October 21, 2005 @ 11:43 am
Me: I know. The man’s nuts, lol.
Wendy… um…. rotfl lmao. Your parents are so cute! And the website/robot… oh my god.
Thanks Prerona. 🙂
Moxie: Yup.
Le Will… can he control you and then bunker down behind some sort of protective shield while you swoop down from the sky? He thinks it sounds hysterical, lol.
Comment by the insider — October 21, 2005 @ 4:28 pm
Your parents are the best. But, then all parents are in small doses. I lived away from mine for two years, and now I am closer to them and see them more frequently, after months have passed, I do not think it is such a good thing, lol.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this week, and I bet you’re going to miss your drinking buddy :).
Comment by Graham — October 21, 2005 @ 9:29 pm
Be glad he didn’t actually get Alexander. All that movie is good for is taking 3 hours of the back end of your life.
Comment by grampa — October 22, 2005 @ 6:13 am
Graham—they are. I wish I lived closer and they retired. That would be fabulous.
Grampa—I told my dad that. He didn’t believe me. 😛
Comment by the insider — October 22, 2005 @ 2:35 pm