Since Father's Day is just around the corner, this one's about both Dad and Mom:
Dad is not a demonstrative person in the slightest. He's never been.
So when Mom told me a story about the night their first-born
was on the way, I had absolutely no trouble picturing him doing what she described!
Her water broke late in the evening, and of course Dad was
very calm as he helped her get ready to go to the hospital. I’m sure he
remained calm while he was in her room for the first part of her labor too.
Then, of course, he had to go to the husbands’ waiting room
(or whatever it was they called it) in the maternity section of the hospital,
to wait for the news. And apparently he wasn’t calm in there.
When he was allowed to go back in and visit the new mom and
the new daughter, Mom noticed that he kept his hands behind his back. She
wondered if perhaps he had something for her, so she said, “Richard, what’s
behind your back?”
It only made her more curious when he just mumbled something
she couldn’t understand. So she said again, “Richard, what’s behind your back?”
When he brought his hands forward, she was both amused and
touched to see his pipe…in pieces.
He had bitten his pipe in half while pacing back
and forth!
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