On the first really hot day, invite your dad to go out for ice cream along with yourself and the kids. Have a really good time. Have such a good time that Grandpa spontaneously — and without thinking about the consequences — offers to repeat the outing on any day that the temperature is over 90.
We went out for ice cream three days in a row. Three days, three different shops. Mmmm!
Thanks, Dad! :D
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I loved all the responses to the Dork Meme. I mean, I knew all along that I was a poser, but I didn’t realize that dorkiness was so prevalent. So, Guusje, which Kingston Trio album is your favorite?
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Well, if you and your dad lived here in Tampa, you’d have free ice cream for at least two months.
I suppose, though, that if we lived in someplace like Tampa he would have known better than to make such a rash promise. ;)
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Yum! Nice FatherWorm!
Hang on a minute! Remember “The Fisherman’s Wife?” By her impulsive greediness she seals her perdition. Careful all, please, not to cast me as “The Fisherwoman’s Husband,” who by his impulsive generosity gets himself into a tsunami from which there is no escape! Impulsive my foot! This was a carefully engineered and in the event successful scheme to set up daily phone calls from Lena: ” Grampa? Hi, this is Lena. I was just looking at the thermomeneter, and it reads 90.2 in the shade.” Grand pause. Grampa makes it easy for seven-year old granddaughter, primes the pump for the next thought: “So, isn’t that a condition triggering the Ice Cream Treaty of July 16? Doesn’t that mean that we HAVE TO go out for some ice cream, whether we want to or not, Lena-Bena?” No pause at all: “Yes.” Grampa: “I agree, we have no choice.”
Just to put things in the proper light…
Postscript:
Lena does not pronounce it “thermomeneter!” That was my typo.
She didn’t call yesterday. It was not as hot. I’m the one watching the thermometer now.
Conceivably we could modify the trigger point of the Treaty downward. I’ll study this option…
Pops, modifying the trigger point (in a downward direction) sounds good to us. How does 80 sound? Or perhaps 75?
Very grand pause!
Actually I found a Kingston Trio CD at a garage sale today. Look for it to soon appear at a mailbox near you!
Awwww! What a nice Dad! When we lived near my Dad (4 miles away) he would take us to DQ for ice cream in the summer. My kids would mow his lawn and he’d add an extra few bucks for ice cream. Happy Memories!