"Actually, Dad – there IS one thing I can do better than you."Two if you count getting into the Guinness Book of Records for never, ever tidying your room, but that's just grump old man-speak, which I express with just two words:
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah. I can draw the Pringles man, and you can't."
Bugger. The boy has a point, and danger immediately rears its ugly head.
"Boy, you have a point. And I shall do my best to rectify this appalling lapse in my acquired life skills."
"You're talking crap again, aren't you?"
"…because – who knows – there might come a time when we find ourselves in the clutches of a ruthless despot who dispenses his mercy or dreadful wrath on the whim of his unhinged personal demands."
"Yup. Crap."
"We'd be there, cowering in his presence and he'd point at us and scream 'YOU and YOU – draw me the Pringles man or you will DIE!!!"
"Mum! Dad's forgotten his happy pills again!"
"Have you got a pen? I need to draw the Pringles man, for our very lives may depend on it. The chisel-tip marker, if you'd be so kind. Son? Son?"
And he is gone.
14 comments:
Messing with their heads. One of the few true joys of parenting they don't mention in the books. For fear that everyone will start breeding just to reap those particular benefits.
It would also be a problem is the Pringles man committed a crime and you were the police sketch artist.
Yeah, but do you know the muffin man, eh?
It should be made a requirement of any interview..for any job, especially that of Prime Minister.
You ARE mad.
The Muffin man - the one that lives down Drury Lane?
He's a tart.
I didn't realise the Pringles man even had a body. He only has a big fat head smeared across a tube over here.
Erin, glad its not just me then.
But have you always got time for Tim Horton's? Eh? EH???
Tim Horton's what?
St. Peter: So, Scaryduck, can you draw the Pringles man?
SD: No.
St. Peter: Adios, amigo-duck.
Debster - definitely not just you!
Dawn - I do, as I'm addicted to the caffeine and we have one in our caf at work. Helloooo large steeped teas....
Bookmarked this. Show one's gratitude you after sharing. Definitely worth my time.
Is as always time the generous glamour the time of your happiness.
With 2 sugars, plz.
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