The ‘Ole One Two
July 25th, 2005 by Luke
I had to play the prelude music for my friend Joe’s wedding on saturday. It was amazing. The music I played was a little weak because I couldn’t practice for it until right before the wedding because my keyboard is such a piece. We went camping on thursday before the wedding, and that was something I was relaly looking forward to. I haven’t been camping in forever, so it was great to sit around with friends and drink a few beers and smoke cigars.
Possibly the best thing that has happened since I came back to Ohio for the wedding happened on sunday. i was driving with my little brother and my dad when my brother threw up a west side hand signal in jest (making a joke about something on the radio or somthing like that).
At this point my dad asked me, “Luke, are you up on hand signals?”
I replied, “Exactly what do you mean?”
My brother then said, “He means this.” And proceeds to show me The Shocker. It looks like this:
“Drew!” I repremanded.
“I didn’t show it to him. He just saw it.” My brother replied.
“So what does it mean?” My dad chimed from the back seat.
I stalled for a few seconds looking at my brother, and looking back at my dad. Trying to decide whether or not I could really tell my dad (a fairly conservatively minded republican man) about something like this. So I decided to just go ahead with it:
“It’s The Shocker. Two in the pink. One in the stink.”
My dad looks at me, thinks for a couple seconds, and then just says, “Oh. I get it.”
That was basically the reverse of every pre-adolescent boy’s nightmare. That nightmare being the day their dad sits them down and has the “birds and bees” talk with them. I, however, had to have a more in depth talk with my dad. Makes me shiver.
