Have You Had Corn Recently?

For years and years I have marveled at what my dad knows how to do. I think it is this generational gap that will probably never be bridged. The culprit to blame is probably the ever increasing influence of electric, and then digital, media that occurred after he grew up and before/while I grew up. I sat around watching quality programming on TV and playing video games while he took apart and rebuilt things. He planned and built the house I grew up in, including plumbing and electricity! He knows about cars too. I went on one house hunting trip with him a few months ago and he even blew the real estate lady out of the water when he asked about the old filled in and bricked over pool (no one was supposed to know about it, but he could tell it was there).

I just picked him up from the airport last night. He flew to John Wayne airport instead of LAX because all the flights to LAX were crazy full. We got home and he took the obligatory "I am home" shit. After the flush, he came out with a worried look exclaiming about a plumbing problem. What a wonderful gift! Home from a transatlantic journey and you get to fix a plumbing problem!

Fast forward about 15 minutes. My dad's arm is up to the bicep in shit water in our house's main sewage line. He is slowly snaking a hose through the pipes to blast out any clogs in it's way. I am standing behind him giving my assistance in anyway I can (turn off/on hose etc). He stops for a moment turns around and says....

"Have you had corn recently?"

I had.