Monday, June 01, 2009

I am a cat. So I must eat the fish.

Have you seen that Class 95 FM ad where this bespectacled fat kid was playing tennis badly and his tennis instructor was trying to tell the kid’s father exactly how bad but the glaze-eyed father chose to only hear the words he wants and he pieces those selected words to form positive sentences. The tagline of the ad was “Hear only the good stuff.”

I suspect all fathers are like that.

The Mother: It is The Brother’s birthday next week.
Frou: (looks at The Brother). Ooooh! How old are you? 18?
The Brother: (-_____-) I’m 25
The Father: Uncle Wong’s son is 32 years old.
(Everyone looks at The Father)
Frou & Bro: (confused at the irrelevance of that statement) Huh?????
The Father: He is a very good young man.
The Mother: Very handsome too, and single.
(Everyone looks at Frou)
The Mother: He is 32, handsome, single – and he drives a BMW. I really don’t understand why he doesn’t have a girlfriend yet.
The Father: Is it that hard to find a girl these days?
(Everyone looks at Frou again)
Frou: Maybe he doesn’t like girls.
(10 second of complete silence; except choking sounds coming from The Brother)
The Father: As I was saying, which cat doesn’t want to eat the fish?


Frou: I don’t understand. What does “which cat doesn’t want to eat the fish” means? Is that an anti-homosexual statement? Is he saying which boy doesn’t want to go out with a girl?
Phillip: Hello darling. Your father is saying that you are a cat. Pussy. Meow.
Frou: Huh?
Phillip: And Uncle Wong’s son, being 32 yr old, handsome and single is the fish. “Shui Yu”.
Frou: Oh??
Phillip: And as a cat, you should go and eat the eligible fish.
Frou: OHHHHHH!!!! But what about my statement about the fish being gay.
Phillip: That has been edited out. Fathers only hear the good stuffs.

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