TonyL

This is not April Fools. 🐔

Call with 20YO 20YO: Hi, Dad. What’s going on? Me: I just found out why there are no brown bears at the North Pole. 20YO: Really, why? Me: They’re afraid of ICE.

Our old daddy-daughter tradition of having a shamrock shake on St Patrick’s Day. Sadly, 5 @McDonalds around us had broken machines - we had to make a trek to find a McDonalds with a working machine! 🤯

I know it’s St Patrick’s day when my 15YO eats all of the marshmallows from the Lucky Charms and leaves the “normal” stuff for me. 🍀

20YO is home from Boston for spring break. She and her 15YO brother this week…

20YO: Did you get a haircut? Me: No. I got all of them cut.

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary Where did the time go?! 🤯

@creativeTypeDad Hey man, that menu is 47 pages. That's fancy in my book. 📖🧀

15YO: So looks like I’m going on a double-date Friday to a fancy restaurant. Me: Oh, really? Which restaurant? 15YO: Cheesecake Factory.

15YO: [text] Hi Dad! How is everything? Me: [sends picture] Chilly outside today.

I don’t recommend going to Trader Joe’s on Valentine’s Day to get flowers. Repeat, I don’t recommend.

@McFranchisee @McDonalds I do love my favorite Sausage w/Egg McMuffin breakfast meal deal at $6 (here in L.A.) Much cheaper than a Starbucks coffee. Hope McD’s keeps that around.

In September, @McDonalds lowered prices on Extra Value Meals nationwide, the biggest price reduction in company histor - alongside a national $8 Big Mac Meal and a $5 Sausage Egg McMuffin meal. That was followed by millions of dollars in free food given away during Monopoly, plus the current $8 two-snack-wrap meal today. 💸 Discounting is part of our DNA 🤠 This isn’t our first rodeo 💪 We know how to win in this environment

One day…

15YO: When you were my age, what kind of car did you want? Me: 1980 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, with the bird on the hood. And with only one cassette tape on repeat - Def Leppard’s Pyromania. 15YO: Did you get that? Me: No. I got a 1986 Hyundai Excel. With no radio or air conditioning.

*years ago teaching my daughter to drive Daughter: [hits the bushes on our driveway] Me: You hit the bushes. Daughter: [tears up and cries] *present day Son: [hits the bushes on our driveway] Me: You hit the bushes. Son: I don’t see what the problem is.

Weather maps the past few days.

Me, after replacing three bathroom faucets my wife has been asking me to do for a few months…

*call 20YO: [in Boston] …25 degrees was the high today. Me: That’s cold. Do you know what the coldest country is? 20YO: What? Me: Chile.

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*call 20YO: Hi Dad! What’s happening? Me: Nothing, just reminiscing. I remember 2025 like it was yesterday.