Dad’s New Reality

Recently,

My dad got yanked into a new experience …

By now having a daughter.

A few weeks ago,

I had some electrical work performed at my digs.

Out with the old fashioned fuse service …

Where I couldn’t have my George Foreman grill and microwave operating at the same time,

And in with a beautiful grey 100 amp (hehe, those are my initials) service circuit breaker box containing working circuit breakers.

Sweet !! 🙂

And since my mom and dad retired,

I’ve decided it is my responsibility to keep them busy by having them do things at my house …

I’m such a caring child, huh ?? 🙂

So I had Dad pick an electriciaaaaaan to do the work,

And asked mom and dad to hang out at the joint while the guy Dad decided on was doing the work.

Which was a much greater incovenience than I ever realized it would be …

Because,

It meant my dad couldn’t access the internet the entire time since his notebook’s battery is worthless lasting 90 minutes max …

And electrical was turned off during the installation for many, many hours.

Trust me …

If you think I’m bad when I’m denied internet access,

You should see my dad !!

Hooboy !! 🙂

Anyways,

On the day work was being done …

I was on my way back to the office from a guest appearance in an easterly county,

And decided to swing by my house to see how work was progressing.

I arrived just as it was being completed …

And met the electrician for all of 10 minutes,

After which I left mom, dad and electrician at my house to finish up …

And headed back into the office.

However,

Apparently those 10 minutes in my hallowed presence was enough of a magical moment for him …

That the aura of All Things Amy must have overcome him,

For about 30 minutes after I arrived back at my office …

Dad calls me.

“Hiiiiiiii Amy. 🙂”

“Hi Daaaaaaaaaaad. 🙂”

“The electrician wants you to call him. He said he needs to tell you something and I didn’t want to give him your phone numbers.”

Editor’s Note: I’ve got smart parents … they never give my number out. They always take a number and tell the party they will get it to me. 🙂

“What does he need? Why couldn’t he just tell you? It’s not like I’m not going to run anything he tells me past you or Baby Brother anyways. Just tell him I want him to talk to you about whatever it is.”

“I don’t know why he wants to talk to you, I asked him to tell me, but he just said it’s something he has to go over with you.”

“Yeah right, he just wants to ask me out.”

Of course,

My dad totally disregarded my last statement,

Mainly because no one takes me seriously when I say things like that …

And for good reason,

Because I really am never serious when I say things like that. 🙂

Anyways …

Knowing Dad would be calling me back at some point that night to find out what Mr. Electrician Dude wanted …

I decided I had best call him right away.

“Hello.”

“Hi. This is Amy Preston, you did an electrical service upgrade at my house earlier today. My dad just called me and told me you needed to speak with me about something?”

“Oh, hi, thanks for calling back so promptly. Can you hold on just one second?”

“Sure.”

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Ah-hem. That was the theme to Jeopardy. What can I say … you kids know I can’t carry a tune !! 🙂

“Back. Sorry about that.”

“No problem.”

“Good. Glad to hear that. Actually, it’s not an emergency or anything, I was just wondering if you would like to go out to dinner sometime?”

Now at this particular moment …

Three things crossed my mind,

This time in the span of .84 seconds,

A little slower than normal,

But hey, I’m getting old :):

1. I’m soooooo going to laugh at Dad when I tell him the guy really did want to ask me out.

2. What is it with me and electricians ?? This is the third guy in less than a month that works in the electrical field that’s expressed an interest in me. Unfortunately, the one that had the best chance of getting a yes out of me never quite worked up the nerve.

3. I swear … every since I swore off dating guys in my hometown … guys have started asking me out !! Where were these offers when I might have said yes ??

“Thank you for asking. I can’t right now though.”

“I don’t mean today. I meant this weekend maybe.”

“Oh no, I understand. I’m sorry, that really is nice of you to ask, but I’m seeing someone right now.”

Lie or truth ?? It doesn’t matter, it’s my final fallback line in situatiooooons like that. ‘Member? I swore off dating guys in my hometown. Why you ask ?? Stay tuned. 🙂

“Oh, okay. Well, I just wanted to ask. You are very beautiful.”

Okay, just to beat everyone to the punch, yes, I know … apparently my dad hired an electrician that drinks on the job … ’cause clearly he was evaluating me through his beer goggles !! 😛

“🙂 Well, thank you. That’s nice of you to say. And thank you for your work at my house !!”

“You’re welcome. Bye.”

“Goodbye.”

I sooooooo love Told You So moments …

Even when I just stumble into them through sheer luck !! 🙂

Making the question:

Do I call dad right away and tell him what went down …

And that I was RIGHT about the reason for Mr. Electrician Dude’s requested phone call ??

Or do I just non-chalantly bring it up when my dad asks about the reason for the call request at his own pace??

I opted for the latter,

Thinking it could be funnier that way when I delivered the news to him.

You see,

At times I do have patience !! 🙂

So a few days later Dad asked the nature of the call …

“Hey, whatever happened with Mr. Electrician Dude. What did he want?”

“What did I tell you he wanted?”

“What? Oh, that he wanted to ask you out ??”

“There you go !! Just just like told ya !! 🙂” *snicker* *snicker*

“Are you serious? He didn’t even see you for what … 10 minutes at the most?”

“Something like that. But really … I have a very engaging personality Dad. ” 🙂

Obviously, I was laughing my ass off when tossing out that last comment. But not nearly as much as my dad was laughing his ass off !! Again, no one takes me seriously when I say things like that !! LOL 🙂

“You know,” interjected my mom, “I’ll bet that’s why the wire to your front doorbell wasn’t hooked back up at first?”

“What?”

“I went downstairs to check the box before he left and there was this wire dangling on the side. When I got him to check it out, he was all flustered and said it was just the front doorbell and he forgot to re-connect it … I’ll bet he did that on purpose so he’d have to come back and fix it !!”

Seriously, my mom and dad are really good are keeping a close eye on things, aren’t they? I’d have never noticed a wire wasn’t reconnected, and even if I did, the extent of my effort to address it would be to ask Baby Brother or Shaft to come over and check it out for me.

Now regular viewers here know that I’m really close with my family.

And you’d have thought I would of noticed this long before now …

But for the first time in my life, as my dad said:

“I’m not crazy about this at all.”

I noticed he had a holster on and was carrying a Blastech DL-44 !!!

Yeah … I know !!

Who wudda thunk !!

It was the exact same type gun that Han Solo was carrying when he blaster-slabbed Greedo at the cantina in Mos Eisley on Tatooine.

Totally …

Surprised me too !!! 🙂

Then Dad started to slowly unholster it …

“Maybe I need to have a little Father-Mr. Electrician Dude talk with him.”

“No no no Dad. It’s all fine. I told him no. He didn’t seem stalkish at all. I’m sure he won’t call you to have me call him again. It’s no big deal.”

“Well, okay,” he said as he reholstered the Blastech DL-44, “but still … he does know where you live.”

So dad got on the phone …

And an hour later,

Baby Brother stopped over:

“Hey Aim, Dad told me to drop off this R2 unit to keep an eye on things, well, actually, to keep an eye on you. Do you have enough electrical service so I can recharge him?”

“If I don’t, I know who to call !“