We took a canoe out at Sandy Beach. Your dad can’t swim and was scared to death of drowning. I was rocking the canoe and he was freaking. Apparently he hadn’t noticed that the water was only about 3 feet deep. Eventually the canoe tipped over and he screamed…only to then stand up in water just past his knees. He was embarressed (and a little pissed off) but it was funny.
Love mom
yes!
hah.
take that, masculinity.
February 7, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I think if I was married to someone who treated me like and thought my fears were funny, I would be single in about 3 months.
February 7, 2009 at 5:55 pm
I can’t understand why one would go canoeing if you can’t swim but to each their own. Otherwise, funny, and you never know what could have set mom off :)
February 7, 2009 at 7:00 pm
sandy beach…this wouldn’t be on a lake in new hampshire, would it?
February 7, 2009 at 10:02 pm
LOL! Sounds like my parents!
February 8, 2009 at 12:58 am
If a man did this to a woman most people wouldn’t think it was funny.
February 8, 2009 at 9:57 am
I think this is just a funny, cute story. People need to not take these “postcards” so seriously and read more into them than is necessary….
February 8, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Necessary for what????
February 8, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I don’t think anyone said anything in response to this post that was too serious, or reading into it too much.
February 8, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Not funny. Why would preying on someone’s fears be funny?
February 8, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Well, I think it’s pretty amusing, but I’m also the old, crabby aunt.
February 9, 2009 at 2:26 am
geeze louise…….what more can you say mia?…….lightened up people!!!….. LOL
February 9, 2009 at 7:41 am
You mean to tell me, none of you have ever put a rubber snake or rat or creepy crawly in someone’s desk drawer or bed, knowing the recipient is scared of said critter, and laughed your ass off when they freaked out after finding it?
he probably went canoeing for the same reason i go up in the ferris wheel on the boardwalk, when i’m afraid of heights…just to say i did it. And yes, my darling husband loves rocking the basket when be get to the top, because he knows it freaks me out.
February 10, 2009 at 3:05 pm
This is something a creepy older brother/sister does to their younger brother/sister – but not a wife to a husband (or husband to wife) – it’s just mean.
February 10, 2009 at 3:37 pm
All in good fun…like putting a fake spider on someone who’s afraid.
That which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
That dad was never in any real harm — sounds like he needs some swimming lessons though.
February 10, 2009 at 3:45 pm
They day a wife and husband can’t joke around and tease each other anymore is the day the divorce papers need to be drawn up. There’s no reason a married couple can’t joke with each other anymore.
February 11, 2009 at 11:09 am
Oh, please, lighten up. My husband and I go canoeing whenever we are in Willow Lake, NY, and Mr. Let-Me-Row-Us-At-Top-Speed has flooded our canoe more times than I care to remember.
But while I can swim, I have this silly B-Horror-Movie fear of getting my feet stuck in the lake muck and drowning.
We still think it’s funny. We would never harm each other.
February 18, 2009 at 3:09 pm
I don’t think it is a question of *taking a joke* or telling people to *lighten up*. There are different types of people. Some would find this absolutely funny and some would be angry, annoyed, hurt, etc… It doesn’t mean one group is *right* and one is *wrong*.
February 18, 2009 at 6:31 pm
A-f-ing-men!
February 23, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Probably should have put a little backstory that my Dad was the world’s biggest prankster. I found this story hilarious because rare was the time that someone pulled a prank over on him. I asked Mom about it and she said that Dad thought it was funny afterwards, and used it as free license to be as pranky as he wanted to be (and he was pretty damn pranky).
This happened before they were married (when they were dating in the mid 1970s) and was not in New Hampshire, no. Was in Canada. :)
February 28, 2009 at 7:21 am
Oh dear, even is your dad wasn’t a prankster, yo momma is very funny :-)
February 23, 2010 at 5:13 pm