The Daddy Complex

High-res Some day in the near future, this conversation will happen… Boone: Papa, tell us about how you proposed to Mama.Me: Well, son. I was dressed as The Crow.Wyatt: What’s The Crow?Me: It’s a character from a movie… no, wait. It was a comic book first, but they made a movie of it—Boone: What’s a comic book?Me: You know those stories with all the pictures you read on your Read-O-Matic 5000 device?Wyatt: Yes.Me: Those used to come in, like, a floppy magazine form. Anyway, they made a movie of it… I’m getting off track. I was dressed as a guy who comes back from the dead to avenge his lover’s death.Wyatt: So, you thought that was the perfect attire for a marriage proposal.Me: It was kind-of spontaneous.Wyatt: Please tell me this was for Halloween.Me: It was.Boone: What was Mama dressed as?Me: She… um, I don’t know. Some kind of sexy goth librarian or something. Ask her.Wyatt: So, that was the night you guys decided to get married.Me: Uh, no. She didn’t say yes.Boone: But, she obviously did eventually.Me: A year later, yes… Hey, if I were her, I would’ve waited, too.

Some day in the near future, this conversation will happen…

Boone: Papa, tell us about how you proposed to Mama.
Me: Well, son. I was dressed as The Crow.
Wyatt: What’s The Crow?
Me: It’s a character from a movie… no, wait. It was a comic book first, but they made a movie of it—
Boone: What’s a comic book?
Me: You know those stories with all the pictures you read on your Read-O-Matic 5000 device?
Wyatt: Yes.
Me: Those used to come in, like, a floppy magazine form. Anyway, they made a movie of it… I’m getting off track. I was dressed as a guy who comes back from the dead to avenge his lover’s death.
Wyatt: So, you thought that was the perfect attire for a marriage proposal.
Me: It was kind-of spontaneous.
Wyatt: Please tell me this was for Halloween.
Me: It was.
Boone: What was Mama dressed as?
Me: She… um, I don’t know. Some kind of sexy goth librarian or something. Ask her.
Wyatt: So, that was the night you guys decided to get married.
Me: Uh, no. She didn’t say yes.
Boone: But, she obviously did eventually.
Me: A year later, yes… Hey, if I were her, I would’ve waited, too.

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  3. sisterofnatesmith reblogged this from bestnatesmithever and added:
    I want to meet your parents. You are hilarious. There has to be something in your childhood that made you
  4. mollysueschwarz said: that is a great story.
  5. bestnatesmithever reblogged this from thedaddycomplex and added:
    is amazing and hilarious.
  6. verrucktschon reblogged this from thedaddycomplex and added:
    THE CROW!!! Niceee
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