Parents embarrassing their children as teenagers is just payback, really...

Called out.Scene: Father and daughter are in the kids section of the library perusing the DVDs.Daughter: Oh, what about this one Daddy?(Daughter pulls out a case for one of those generic knock-off movies that barely even pretends to originality.)Father: Nah, that's just some rubbish generic knock-off that barely even pretends to originality.(Daughter dejectedly replaces DVD, her wee child brain beginning to synthesize the complex irony underlying her father's ability to be an insufferable snob, even regarding children's books and telly entertainment)Father: Eff-tee-dubya, Z! "Tangled" is in this week, you wanted to see that again didn't you?(Daughter engages in an impressive dramatic pause before resuming her slow steady progress through the DVDs. She says, without turning...)Daughter: Not really, but I know it's your favorite, Daddy, so we can get it if you really want to.Father: ...(Everybody in the section stops what they're doing and looks at Father. Father briefly considers mounting a defense of this putatively underrated Disney movie, even though it continues the trend of completely butchering traditional folklore in the name of producing a feel-good, crowd-pleasing love story punctuated with low-rent slapstick humor and Broadway tunes... but thinks better of it.)Father: Well, the horse is quite funny? (Coughs.) Anyway, what was that you were looking at earlier?End scene.
Source: Across the Bilayer - Category: Medical Scientists Tags: Parentage Source Type: blogs