Shaun Groves
“What’s doobie?”
She’s five – I thought. I also thought things like: She must have seen cable at Uncle Brian’s house. Now we’ll have to move. I never liked Uncle Brian much anyway. I thought things like that. Normal, rational things. Then I took a deep breath and feigned calm.
“A doobie is like a cigarette. People smoke it. Okay?” I pulled out my chair and she pulled out hers.
“If you smoke cigarettes you die,” she stated with the confidence of a Surgeon General.
“Yeah… pretty much. I guess that’s true, sweetie. Smoking can make you sick and some people even die.”
“Mommy says you die.”
“Yeah… So do you understand what a doobie is now?” I spilled a box of crayons onto the kitchen table and handed her a stack of construction paper, hoping the interrogation was over and we could draw together instead, or at least have lighter father-daughter conversation about, I don’t know, colors of finger nail polish she’s into this week or how to make a fart sound with your armpit. Anything.
“Can you take me to see them make doobie?”
dave wells says:
2 words: Michael McDonald. He was the best doobie. Don’t make me go Romper Room on you…
JessicaB says:
I still love this story. 🙂
Megan @ Faith Like Mustard says:
Honestly, I was a little disappointed in this post. I expected photos from your field trip to the doobie factory. 😉
jamie says:
so funny! you never know whta theya re going to ask- i think you may have a guilty conscience 😉
Katie says:
I enjoyed the post, Mom Blogger!
Katie
MTRUAX says:
ROFLOL
David Edmisten says:
Great story – all of us dad have been there, trying to answer the questions we really don’t want to answer. Thanks for sharing. And wait till you see what you get when she is 10!
Sarah says:
I think it is amazing that you spend that much time with your kids and take the time to answer tough questions that theyhave. I am only 16 so obviously not a parent yet, but it would have made growing up so much easier if my parents would have done that. I have spent a life of thinking that nobody cared to hear what I had to say, so I truly hope that you continue showing the world that it does matter!