Riding to work with my stepfatherinlaw

[DrFaroohk]

I have to ride to work with my step-father-in-law now since he doesn't have a license. He's a pretty good guy overall, but he's one of those people who has been there, done that, seen it all, and much much better than you.

So far on the rides I have learned that he attended the police academy, graduated with flying colors, he is also a chef, like a real chef, and he used to be a big drug lord who even the badass colombians wouldn't want to mess with, and I just found out today he has an IQ of..............182.

He's also got a lot of those stories where some authority figure says something unfavorable to him so he made some really awesome snappy comeback. Or how he beat up 12 cops one time. No, 15! 18! And they're all scared of him.

That's why he got his DUI you know, because back when he used to do legal work he showed up a lot of the local legal eagles (police, lawyers, DA, judge, etc...) and it was all a big conspiracy to get back at him.

[Boozy]

Why are you carpooling with him? Do you work at the same place?

If so, he talks pretty big for someone who's in the same job as a guy half his age with none of his spectacular intelligence and skills.

[DrFaroohk]

Yeah we work at the same place. I know. He's got all these amazing skills yet he's stuck at the fish factory. Of course, its all part of the big conspiracy against him.

[Fryk]

You should ask him if the fish are in on the conspiracy.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

Of course they are! They want you to give them that Fillet-o-Fish!

ZING!


...okay, that wasn't that funny. It's just been a slow day .

Back OT, seems like we got a chronic embellisher here, transcending the normal spin to outright farce. God I hate that

*raises hand for sympathy high-five*

[Fryk]

First, let me give Sir Integra a pity laugh.

*hyuck*

:: )

And second, I have a hunch that it's not everyone he's trying to impress, just you. I say just smile and nod, reel him in for a while, then club him with logic when he least suspects it.

[muses_nightmare]

He sounds like my dad. Though perhaps a bit worse. But my dad figures he knows everything. I once had him try to explain something about computers to me, this is a man who bragged about the fact that he didn't even know how to turn on a computer, I'm going into graphic design and work on computers all day. But he knows more apparently.

[DrFaroohk]

And second, I have a hunch that it's not everyone he's trying to impress, just you. I say just smile and nod, reel him in for a while, then club him with logic when he least suspects it.

I think the same thing, although I don't bother trying to even argue or disprove or even question what he says because I figure what's the point.

He's weird to be around because he has a sort of hostility to him - just saying hello he can sound like he's pissed at you. But I keep remembering that if he's working so hard to impress me and make me think he's awesome, it must be because he genuinely likes me.

[Plaidman]

I remember when I was a kid, I use to keep track how many times my uncle was in jail. I remember one time when mom and i went to pick him up, he was fighting police. I mean he had like 8 cops all around him, and he was holding his own against them for a good six-seven minutes before they took him down.


He was always a tough bastard.