My Dad – God bless him – is such a typical parent on the Internet, it’s not even funny. When I first taught him about instant messaging, he seemed to pick it up pretty quickly. Soon after, I got online but left my computer momentarily when my father instant messaged me; when I returned, he had written me a single “Alicia, how are you? We have been busy this weekend…” email-esque instant message and signed off already. Nice, dad.
He also loves to forward on sentimental stuff with egregious colors and formatting, residual from the 90s. It doesn’t really bother me; whenever I get one of his forwarded emails, it usually provokes a sigh and an “Oh daddy,” and then I read whatever it is he sent me because it always seems to come from the heart anyway.
His latest email threw me off. It was terribly sentimental but also kind of hilarious. All it had was a link to this video. I had no idea what I was going to be looking at and neither do you! Enjoy!
