Bubble Memories Puns

“To the dump, to the dump, to the dump, dump, dump!”

My dad loved corny jokes and every now and then one of them will bubble up in my memory, even though he passed years ago. Keep telling your kids dad jokes! You never know what they are going to remember about you, and it might as well be a dumb joke.

After we'd shut up and started listening he'd say,

"Six white horses fell in the mud!"

I use that one on my son on occasion and I hear the same groan as I had at his age. You taught me well, Dad. I miss you!

I know it's been done before, and many a dad before me and many a dad after me will get to experience this, but in these dark times this was a ray of light that pierced me right to the core with joy.

I came home, and my bright and bubbly ballerina 6 year old runs up and says can I have a hug!?

She asks very tentatively because she knows I have been out all day and the routine is for me to grab a shower (COVID) before I let them get all over me.

So I say, not yet I'm dirty.

She says awww... then she turns to walk away, but then spins back around and looks at me dead in the eye and says:

Hi! um...

wait a sec,

um, I know um,

um, wait.... dir...

[Face beams the biggest smile of accomplishment]

Hi Dirty! I'm [daughter]!

I know we have those proud moments when they turn, but man her delivery, the awkwardness, and the sheer pride she beamed out when she realized she just pulled the reverse dad joke on me...

It's not the getting reverse dad'd, it's the joy and pride she had... she could have just graduated college, and that's how big her beaming smile was right then...

It's a memory I am going to keep and it really lit up this dark time.