Sensible Erection | Dad waves to his son's departing school bus in a different costume every day for a year

Sunday, 5 June 2011

Dad waves to his son's departing school bus in a different costume every day for a year

quote [ Waving at the high school bus (and our fifteen--now sixteen--year old son) each morning ]

What a great dad!

Local news coverage:

http://www.deseretnews.com/photo/gallery/story/705373877/Teens-dad-spends-school-year-waving-at-bus-embarrassing-son.html?photoId=493416&s_cid=fb_share

[humour] [by feldenglas@2:51pmGMT] [+10 Funny]

Comments

robotroadkill said @ 3:10pm GMT on 5th Jun [Score:5 Funny]
That's a great way of making sure your child remains abstinent without the need for awkward conversations.

lilmookieesquire said @ 3:30pm GMT on 5th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
I think I'll do this to any kid I have if they fall below a certain grade-point average.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 6:38am GMT on 6th Jun
[The kid is] a fun, likable guy, with a 4.0 GPA in Honors classes.

cache22 said @ 8:10am GMT on 6th Jun
He doesn't know what his dad will do if he lets his grades slip, but he sure knows he doesn't want to find out.

feldenglas said @ 3:35pm GMT on 5th Jun [Score:4 Funny]
I just showed my eldest this link. He's four years old, and he thought it was great. I asked him if I should do it when he's 16, and got an enthusiastic 'yes'. His mother is a corroborating witness.

lilmookieesquire said @ 3:38pm GMT on 5th Jun [Score:1 Informative]
http://www.deseretnews.com/photo/gallery/story/705373877/Teens-dad-spends-school-year-waving-at-bus-embarrassing-son.html?photoId=493416&s_cid=fb_share

radioelectric said @ 3:49pm GMT on 5th Jun
Excellent, I was about to post this here.

Taleweaver said @ 3:55pm GMT on 5th Jun
The first thing I thought when I saw the pirate costume was "how did he do the peg leg? Then I saw the other pictures, and I was like "best. idea. ever."

solvraev said @ 5:51pm GMT on 5th Jun [Score:5 Informative]
I knew Dale back in the 90's, and he is one of the nicest and coolest people I have ever met. He was heavy into paintball before the accident that took his leg. Instead of calling it quits he kept working with his prosthetic until his game was as good as it ever was. He opened his own paintball store called PegLeg Paintball and his team, the Paraplegic Turtles, was nationally ranked. At its peak, his paintball field "Showdown" had nearly 700 acres and the annual Big Game would draw 3,000-5,000 people.

Unfortunately, he LOVED paintball, and as any good dealer knows, you don't use your own product. His 'gun collection numbered in the hundreds (if not thousands) and when you spend $1,200 a pop to add a custom faded anodization and $200 for walnut grips, etc. for just one of them, it ends up not making good business sense.

I've seen him with his kids and while this waving-at-the-bus thing might be embarrassing, he loves and cares for his family and he is a good dad. I'm sure his children will turn out to be just fine.

a.talisan said @ 3:56pm GMT on 5th Jun
"You don't want to see your dad dressing up in a wedding dress, waving at you on the bus," Rain said.

The part of me that remembers being a teenager goes "Oh god."

And the part of me that is an adult goes, "Fifteen/sixteen year old? Serves him right for all the [assumed] surliness and sulking."

:D

sanepride said @ 4:05pm GMT on 5th Jun
I feel both incredible sympathy and admiration for this kid at the same time.

tickaz said @ 4:28pm GMT on 5th Jun
The toilet one was the funniest. A lot of planning must have gone into that one!

sacrelicious said @ 4:36pm GMT on 5th Jun
oh man, when this kid is old enough to be embarrassed by his parents, he's just gonna snap.

cb361 said @ 4:41pm GMT on 5th Jun
It keeps Michael Moore in work.

Bezoar said @ 8:06pm GMT on 5th Jun [Score:1 Insightful]

sanepride said @ 4:56pm GMT on 5th Jun
Well he's 16 now, that's more than old enough. I suspect that instead of snapping he'll be incredibly resilient and able to deal with any form of humiliation in stride.

sacrelicious said @ 5:28pm GMT on 5th Jun
they said the same thing about Charles Whitman until that fateful day when he climbed a clock tower at the University of Texas and started using his USMC training to pick off students and faculty with a high powered rifle.

or at least they would have had anyone asked them prior to the event. post-massacre everyone's all "yeah, there was something just not right about that kid from day one..."

kichijoii said @ 7:25pm GMT on 5th Jun
Charles Whitman's dad wore costumes and waved him to school every day? Suddenly it all makes sense!

sacrelicious said @ 7:27pm GMT on 5th Jun [Score:1 Funny]
not only that, but Charles Whitman's dad also invented violent video games and heavy metal music.

sanepride said @ 7:46pm GMT on 5th Jun
Whitman also had a brain tumor. Obviously a bad combination.

Supreme_Coconut said @ 4:57pm GMT on 5th Jun
As I view these I find myself feeling fortunate that my father didn't do this to me. My children may not be so fortunate. I hope this page is still around when they're teenagers so I can threaten them with it. Or tell them to thank their mother for not letting me do it.

cb361 said @ 6:24pm GMT on 5th Jun
Hey, a vicious cycle of abuse from father to son has to start somewhere.

Starjump said @ 7:15pm GMT on 5th Jun
I'm not gonna do this to my kid but tomorrow I'm going to hang outside the nearest school in a costume waving at the kids. Its an inspector gadget coat...

devilsad said @ 10:58pm GMT on 5th Jun
Go Go Gadget Chloroform?

lilmookieesquire said @ 3:33am GMT on 6th Jun
*cough*
http://rule34.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=159415
*cough*

backSLIDER said @ 9:46pm GMT on 6th Jun
Why did I look at that?!

Barnabas_Truman said @ 10:03pm GMT on 6th Jun
Categorical imperative.

dave said @ 8:10pm GMT on 5th Jun
Dam, it's still frigging dark outside! High school in Utah starts way too early.

robotroadkill said @ 9:03pm GMT on 5th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
You must live in a relatively low lattitude. Darkness during the winter is the way for some of us.

damnit said @ 10:54pm GMT on 5th Jun
I would love to have a dad like that growing up. Some dads are virtually non-existent in their kids lives.

micham18 said @ 1:30am GMT on 6th Jun
Kid will appreciate this when he's older if he doesn't already.

fuckb4ll said @ 1:52am GMT on 6th Jun

Tirade said @ 4:42am GMT on 6th Jun
My only question is... how much did all that costume shit COST? Both in terms of time and money.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 6:37am GMT on 6th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
Cost: We have spent less than fifty US dollars on costumes and props for this blog. Most of these costumes were borrowed from neighbors and friends (you’d be surprised what your neighbors have in their closets!), or found in our costume boxes from years past.