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Are you sure you want to date MY daughter?

RickstirRickstir Member Posts: 574
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
Ten Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter

Rule One:

If you pull into my driveway and honk, you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.

Rule Two:

You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.

Rule Three:

I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open-minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

Rule Four:

I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

Rule Five:

It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is "early."

Rule Six:

I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Seven:

As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process that can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

Rule Eight:

The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there are no parents, policemen, or nuns within eyesight. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff t-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies that feature chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks' homes are better.

Rule Nine:

Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.

Rule Ten:

Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit your car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear vice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car - there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.


Like in the NFL, defense is the key.

Comments

  • lurkerlurker Member Posts: 414 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I never had a daughter, but if I did those rules would apply!

    Very good, Rickstir!
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ' Course there is always the danger she will become the "preachers daughter" and do whatever is necessary to avoid the rules of her repressive dad. I appears to me that teenagers have been doing what teenagers do for the last 5000 years or more. Likely yours will not be much worse than most and better than quite a few!
  • NOTPOSTALNOTPOSTAL Member Posts: 311 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm glad I never dated anyone with a dad like you, but it seems I have become a dad like you. Your list is being printed as I type and will be handed out with all date applications that come in. Thank you

    ...from my cold dead fingers!!
  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rickstir.......My little girl is 12..........Thanks for the insight.
    I too am printing this and will file in my ammo safe.......

    thanks
    coonass

    We Live in a World of Give And Take, But A Lot Of People Won't Give What it Takes.
  • bullelkbullelk Member Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rickstir,
    After the kid hears or reads those rules, he should be about ready for a Diaper change. When my daughter was younger, I've had to give some kids a set of rules, or suggestions similar to yours. Italian style.
    Good post. P.S. Mention castration, that seems to work well.

    Gino

    "If All Else Fails, Read The Directions"
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