What's for dinner??? Maudies!

While trying to decide where to go eat, Dad would suddenly hate all his favorite restaurants except Maudie's. You would suggest a sushi place he loved the previous week, "Oh no, that place just really isn't that good." Ok, you suggest his favorite BBQ place Rudy's, "You know I really think that place sucks." WTF?!?!? On and on until you figure it out that he wants to go to Maudie's. You suggest Maudie's... "Oh, you want Maudie's?? Ok, that's fine, we can go there if you really want it." No, Dad YOU really want it... HAHA!

Birthdays w/ Pop

Since Dad's birthday is right around the corner, Tracy and I were reminiscing about our own birthdays/events with Pop. Two things you could always count on were we would be having Maudie's for dinner and a cake that Dad liked for dessert. It took him multiple birthdays with Joan (who hates chocolate) to actually not buy a German chocolate cake (his fav) for her party.

Auto-fill

Pop decided that Lizzie (8 mos.) would really enjoy a ZZ Top concert in San Antonio. He was online picking out seats for her when someone else asked what he was doing. He explained and we had to take away the computer because he was setup on "auto-fill" with all his credit info and stuff. Pop's response to that was..."That baby's pants are on AUTO-FILL!"

Tricky Dismount

I would make Dad go ride his bike every evening so he would get off the couch and out of the house. He was starting to get worried about his balance so after one ride he was scared to stop and get off so he jumped off the bike while riding it and ended up landing on his feet. I don't remember exactly what he said, but I'm sure it was like, "Op, oh god...whew." I saw all this happen and asked him whats up with the tricky dismount? He explained and I said I think it would have just been easier to stop the bike then get off.

Tap, tap, tap....

This is from one of Dad's ventures to the radiation clinic then as we all know he always had to get a taco from Taco Shack afterwards. Of course we were all worried about him driving and the Taco Shack is a risky left turn. So this one day he comes home and tells me about how stressful it was that day. He said he was trying to turn left into Taco Shack quickly in front of oncoming traffic. All the sudden right after he begins his turn a blind guy starts out walking across the driveway... "tap, tap, tap, tap..." as Dad described it. He was so stressed, looking at the oncoming cars, trying to will the blind man faster out of his way. He just tap tapped his way across, and I think traffic had to stop and wait for Dad. haha :)

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Same Mexico airport trip, Lori and I are halfway into the building when some guy tells us someone wants our attention. We turn around and Dad is yelling to us and giving us the "hand signal."

*Dad gave us the same signal when Hospice came to take him to the inpatient care. We were standing at the top of the stairs by the front door and Dad was in the parking lot on the stretcher. He waved and gave us the "hand signals." :)

If one of you gets raped, the other gets raped!

When Lori and I were going to Mexico for Christmas one year, Dad was giving us a lecture on the way to the airport. He said you guys have to stay together no matter what...if one of you gets drugged the other needs to get drugged, if one of you gets raped the other gets raped, or at least watches!

The tuck means I wanna f***!

Dad came on my high school senior trip to Cancun. He came down one night to the bar with his shirt tucked in. My guy friends were giving him a hard time. Dad's response was "the tuck means I wanna fuck!" All my guy friends spent the rest of the trip with their shirts tucked in!

That's DISGUSTING!

Dad and I were on the boat one afternoon. I start to take my shorts off and he sees my hip scars. He says, "Oh my god! What is that?!!"

I say, "uh, those are from my hip surgery..."

He says, " Oh, jeez, that's disgusting!"

I say, "Thanks Dad" :)