“Huh?! Moments” with My Father

Tatay, my dear father, has this funny way of covering up his forgetfulness when it comes to names of movies, restaurants and stuff. It’s just these days that I happen to realize and establish this about him since lately, this unique characteristic of him seems to be happening more often. I thought that by listing down the funny, rather ridiculous names he has said as products of his forgetfulness, I could come up with a worthy, fun blog post. I just wish though that I could have recalled a lot more than what I’ve got. If you don’t quite understand what I’m talking about, here’s a clearer, more precise way of putting it:

This happened years ago. Remember the Reese Witherspoon movie “Sweet Home Alabama”? Well, Tatay being the avid movie-goer that he is, one day told us that we’re going to watch a movie called “Going Home Oklahoma.” Huh?!

Now get what I mean about him? Here’s another one:

There’s a store here in America called Ross, with a tag line “Dress for Less.” So basically it’s called ROSS Dress for Less. It’s one of my cousin’s favorite stores since moving to America from the Philippines. One day, while my cousin was visiting with us here in California (she was still living in Missouri that time), Tatay said that we’re going to “Ross for Us.” Huh?! He made a shortcut of the tag line and thought Ross is Rose. You know, “roses for us.”

If that’s not funny, maybe this one is:

There’s a casual Chinese fast food chain here called “Panda Express.” While we were in the car one day and deciding where to eat, he said, “Sa Kung Fu Panda bi?” Hilarious huh?! moment right there.

And finally, one of his latest:

We were on our way to go to a Filipino grocery store here in Lancaster. The store is called “Everybody’s Oriental Store.” He called it “Everybody Happy.”

HUH?!

To others it may seem that he’s doing it on purpose, for humor’s sake or something. But I know that he isn’t. Knowing him and his funny way of forgetting things, it’s so him to mess up names like that without any other intention except to be helpful. I know there will be more coming. He’s only in his mid 50s yet he’s being quite forgetful already. It’s OK though as long as he got his unique funny way of showing it. 

~ by Michelle on March 18, 2009.