Ok so I had a chat with my dad on the phone today and I was explaining it all to my friend online. I feel that I really put it well this way, please so if you don’t mind following along, here is an explanation of my frustration with him lately. I have contemplated writing this into a nifty essay for your enjoyment, but I really feel that this is the best way to put my feelings, as they are raw, and UNCUT! Well, they are raw, anyway. MY poor dad. sigh sigh sigh

Tiff: so
Tiff: hes still relatively senile which annoys me, i wish i could be more compassionate.
Tiff: hes not seeming to get worse or anything
Tiff: he just is maddeningly annoying
Tiff: i don’t know the reason but i suspect the old drinking problem he had just killed the part of his brain that harbors human compassion or something
Tiff: i say this because he’s just one of those people that doesn’t seem to understand when he’s interrupting you, or whatever
Tiff: doesn’t recognize that you are talking so its not time to start talking yet
Tiff: in other words i feel its a few steps beyond a person that simply doesn’t listen
Tiff: but it has been that way a long time, i’m trying to repair my mind towards him basically but it never works
Tiff: repair my feeling / opinion about his behavior
Tiff: but anyway
Tiff: he doesn’t ever remember jays name
Tiff: he calls him zack
Tiff: why who knows
Tiff: and he doesn’t realize how long we’ve been together and its a little more than just a bf
Tiff: also, he always thinks i’m a year younger than i am, every birthday
Tiff: annoying cause every year i correct him but that’s minor sort of
Tiff: worrisome ,but generally minor
Tiff: today i made a real attempt to talk to him like he’s a normal person
Tiff: put my feelings aside and just talked to him like he’s anyone else you know
Tiff: it was just disappointing
Tiff: like it was time to explain why i moved here
Tiff: so i had to kind of tell a story which is more than i normally go into with him
Tiff: and explained the lay off, the proposal for hay to move here, etc, which led into why i’m not at ea anymore and he never remembers what i’m fucking doing with my life and my company explaining that to him in regards to “the internet” no fucking clue
Tiff: its like talking to a cat and expecting a intelligent response
Tiff: hell that’s giving a cat credit.
Tiff: ok that’s mean but true.
Tiff: but then he interrupts me in the dead middle of a story and asks for my address.
Tiff: so i am like wtf dad i’m in the middle of my story
Tiff: he is like i have a pen, where do i write to you. ok so i give it to him.
Tiff: then he says ok continue your story. that was relatively unexpected, that he even remembered i was telling him a story.
Tiff: so i finish that story and he says the UNTHINKABLE
Tiff: “hey maybe you can say hi to my favorite president in austin, he owns a big ranch there”
Tiff: me: um what, who
Tiff: “the president he owns a ranch in austin”
Tiff: me: your favorite president is who?
Tiff: “you know who our president is”
Tiff: me: ok you’re kidding right?
Tiff: “no!”
Tiff: me: ok.. (intentionally try to continue with a new subject)
Tiff: “who is your favorite president?”
Tiff: me: umm i don’t want to go there
Tiff: “don’t say obama or ill shoot you”
Tiff: me: no, um he’s not even a president
Tiff: “who then?”
Tiff: me: um clinton
Tiff: “who?!?!”
Tiff: me: bill clinton is my favorite president
Tiff: “you’ve got to be kidding me. does jay feel this way too?”
Tiff: me: i don’t know dad i don’t talk about this stuff with him
Tiff: “oh my god my daughter is going down the drain”
Tiff: “would you rather be an ass or an elephant”
Tiff: me: you told me this scenario when i was 12, and i still find your reasoning for choosing a party irrelevant in many ways
Tiff: “well think about it”
Tiff: me: ok next subject
Tiff: then he tells me he’s talking to a woman form high school he calls her his girlfriend
Tiff: she found him through a mailing list of high school reunion people
Tiff: and she contacted HIM
Tiff: and she lives in florida
Tiff: and wanted to go to san antonio, tx with him
Tiff: and now he’s like ya maybe me and my gf will come visit
Tiff: i had to stifle my laughter
Tiff: i mean this lady is she a wack job or is she normal. if she’s crazy i hope they love eachother in real life but it sounds so asinine. sigh
Tiff: ok i’m done! it was infuriating the whole way, except the GF story which i was highly amused
Tiff: the end. (curtsey)
Tiff: oh more news to cushion the previous rant
Tiff: the whole ass vs elephant thing
Tiff: seriously its true. i asked what’s the diff between republican and democrat when i was very young probably younger than 12
Tiff: and he straight up said the same answer “would you rather be a ass or an elephant”
Tiff: i mean wtf
Tiff: it made NO SENSE then and thank god i understand that it makes no sense now
Tiff: can i really be of the same genetic code that someone thinks gw is like a great president?! seriously can i talk to him again
Tiff: highly unlikely i can ever get over this
Tiff: >.<

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