Metaphorical and Geometrical

But my dad told a story last night that was like... a while back he assembled a bunch of digitized home video footage his sister had and put it on DVDs, and apparently my grandfather had two stipulations about that process. The first was that the final product not include any footage of his golf swings as a younger man--which honestly, I totally get. When you spend sixty-plus years working on something, you don’t want to relive how it looked forty years ago. The second was that it not include what was described as “the clip of [him] walking out of the desert.”

Apparently, during a family road trip through the southwest when my dad was young, they stopped to stretch their legs. My dad was running the camera when my grandfather jokingly did an impromptu performance like he was stumbling out of the desert after being lost, groaning theatrically for water. My dad said it was probably the single funniest moment of his entire childhood.

Then he paused, and kind of ruefully added, “I mean, there were only two or three funny moments in my entire childhood, but that was definitely the funniest.”

And I’m honestly just like “what the fuck” because that is 100000% the kind of stupid dad joke my dad would (and does) pull all the time? My dad has always been one of the funniest people I know, like basically 90% of everything I remember him doing when I was a kid was to make me laugh? He was the fucking king of silly voices and all kinds of other wildly undignified shit, and if I found something uproariously funny--even if it was a meaningless absurdity, as is frequently the case with little kid humor--he would remember it and use it again.

my husband, regarding me coolly from across the room: Yes.