Dad And The Double Banana
My Dad is unintentionally hilarious. Although he was the cool Dad who would put our baseball team on the back of his truck and ride through town so we could shout “We’re number one!” and then go for ice cream, he was also unable to remember anything that we thought was cool.
When Meatloaf’s Bat Out Of Hell came out, my brother Kevin and I were very excited when Dad said he’d take us to a record store to buy it. However, we were humiliated when he asked the clerk for “MeatGrinder, To Hell With The Devil”. He once referred to Bruce Springsteen in a very authoritative tone as, Bruce Springbank. When you’re a kid and in the company of your friends, this is the ultimate embarrassment.
Kevin and I find it amusing now. I talked to Dad today and he told me he had seen me on an episode of Whatever Happened To last night on TVtropolis. The conversation went something like this:
Me: Oh? Which episode was it?
Dad: It was “double bananas”.
Me, not remembering such an episode: Double bananas? Are you sure?
Dad, mildly indignant: Yes. It was double bananas!
I take a moment to think and then I ask, Dad, could it have been SECOND bananas???
Dad, sheepishly: Oh, right, that was it.
My Dad is very entertaining and I love him to pieces. But if he tells you that Nicole Brown just married Keith Partridge, you may want to double check the facts.
