I took my 92-year-old dad to the mall to buy new shoes, and afterward we grabbed lunch at the food court. While we were eating, I noticed he kept glancing at a teenager sitting nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The kid had spiked hair in every color of the rainbow \u2014 green, red, orange, blue. Every time the teen looked up, he\u2019d catch my dad staring at him. After a few minutes, the boy finally snapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With full teenage sarcasm, he said: I nearly choked because I knew<\/em> my dad was going to respond \u2014 and I knew it would be good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without blinking, without changing his expression, without even pausing between bites, my dad calmly said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cActually, son\u2026 many years ago I got drunk and slept with a peacock. I was just wondering if you might be my boy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The teenager went silent. A true legend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I took my 92-year-old dad to the mall to buy new shoes, and afterward we grabbed lunch at the food court. While we were eating, I noticed… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cWhat\u2019s your problem, old man? Never done anything wild in your life?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The entire food court burst out laughing.
And my dad?
He just kept eating his fries like nothing happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n