Sad Things Can Turn into Silly Things
Today is Silly Saturday and I’m so glad my blogger friend Kebba came up with this topic a few years ago. We all can use a bit of humor and laughter even on sad days. That was the case with my dad back on January 20, 2006. Years back I was in an MSN group and I came across a copy of one of my posts the other day.
I remember this day all too well, we were visiting with dad in the hospital and he asked us to bring his razor up but he had passed away before he could use it. When I was younger, I can still here my mom when we would be getting ready to go out telling my dad he forgot to shave.
While January 20th, 2006 was a sad day, it was also happy. Mom had passed away January 15, 2000 and now they were together forever once again. But I will always smile and remember how silly it was when my mom would tell dad he forgot to shave and we would all laugh. Maybe he didn’t even want to shave. LOL But it looks like he remembered to shave in this picture! I love you dad!!
Do you have something sad but silly that makes you smile?
Dad hair stories are funny, whether it’s hair on the face or head. My dad went bald quite early. By the time he was in his mid-20s, he was bald like a billiard ball (not that there are hairy billiard balls, so that’s quite a silly saying). Well, my mom told me that, when she met my dad, he was wearing a toupee. Oh my gosh. Just the idea of my dad having a piece of fake hair on his head was super funny. How did he keep it in place when there was a wind? I have no idea and, even now, the thought of a toupee on my dad’s head is hilarious. My mom told me that she didn’t think that he needed to wear a toupee, that she loved him with or without hair and that bald was just fine.
By the time I came around, he was fine with being bald. More than fine, in fact. When I was a kid, I asked my dad why he was bald. He said that he was so smart that the brains just pushed the hair right out of his head. I immediately went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror and saw lots and lots of dark curls.
I obviously have very tiny brains but lots of hair!
Oh Alice, that’s so funny! So is that why there are so many bald men, they are having their brains push the hair? Rich started going bald on the top of his head only and he didn’t take it too well, he kept trying to comb the side hair over it. One day I told him to stop doing that because bald is beautiful.