My Dad is a caveman.

[logansrogue]

Tonight, something strange happened. I walked past the TV to put my stuff away in my room. Suddenly, and without reason, the closed captions started popping up on the screen. It made Dad mad.

I came back in to wish my parents good night. I heard someone on the TV say "Murphey!" and I looked. "Hey!" I said happily, "It's Roboco-" I drifted off as the TV screen turned into a swirly black and white mess. Sometimes that happens, the set top box crashes. It's a digital bit of hardware, right?
No. No no. Dad decided it was MY FAULT. "YOU! You did it!" He started getting really angry, and I laughed. "No I didn't!"

Mum made a joke about me being Electro-girl. But Dad got *really* upset about it. I started saying something.

"Shut up, you!" he said to me, "I'm really fucking sick of you! I listen to your shit ALL DAY, and now, now you fuck up the bloody television!"

Any other time I would have dissolved into tears, but I could tell that he was having a childish moment of supreme frustration. I guess he really wanted to watch Robocop. I understand, it IS a fucking awesome movie. So I did what any other daughter accused of electro-kinetic powers would do.

I laughed my tits off at him.

Oh, and I asked him to apologise for the things he said before. He said, "NO! You did it! You have magnetic bones!"

... Okaaay! He's joking, and I know when he's trying to rile me up. Douchebag. LOL! I should set up some electro-magnetic tricks just to freak him out! Hahahaha!

Comments

[likebunnies.livejournal.com]

LOL! I have the same effect on electronics and I have for years. I get blamed for all sorts of shit just because I walked by it. Maybe it's the endometriosis? It's magnetic!!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

OMG. Endometriosis gives you POWERS. That'd be cool! We can be the E-Women. I'll be Static and you'll be ... uhm... What's your special Endo Hero name?

[likebunnies.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I don't know. I used to screw up the electrical systems in cars. Lights would go out. Everyone would get shocked. To this day, when I touch the radio dial to turn it down, it always goes up instead. Electrical appliances die around me like they have the plague. So I guess in the end I just get to be 'Expensive Repair Woman.' ;-)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/

I'm just sayin'.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

HAH. I love you so much right now! I can get him back for hiding the old smoke alarm in my (admittedly badly messy) room. It beeps all night now cause it's running out of battery. It's slowly dying. Oh my God, sweet, sweet revenge!!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You can also do it for less money with the chip out of one of those musical greeting cards taped under a drawer. Um, so I've heard. >.>

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Or I could dig out the old damned fire alarm and shove it under his bed. LOL!

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Are you SURE we don't have the same dad?

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

No. Maybe they were twins separated at birth. Is he German?

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Close. Dutch.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Something in the gene pool in that area, I think.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Well my Opa *was* in Germany during the war...

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

That's what it is. My Dad was growing up during the war. It seriously fucked kids up, cause their Dads were away. They didn't know how to be Dads themselves as a result. Totally serious here.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

I don't disagree at all. I suspect the way my dad is now is a result of two parents who lived through the war - including a father who was kidnapped by the Nazis and forced into a work camp in Germany (that's all I know, Opa doesn't talk about it), my bitchy Oma and his Navy background.

[sir-devans.livejournal.com]

Robocop? I know its plot is a bit of a stretch but isn't it a trigger?

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

No. It's about a robot cop!!

[sir-devans.livejournal.com]

fair enough

[ser523.livejournal.com]

This made me LOL. :D