1. Heh… I always found ‘cleaning’ the shotgun usually got their attention (and the daughter was back on time if not early)…

2. Like I need another reason to stay out of the dating scene…

   1. When I was younger and dating, I was never intimidated by a father doing the cleaning his gun routine, for I generally had something better in the truck.

      1. I’d probably find it to be common ground and completely derail the conversation to talk about the gun.

         I have enough to deal with trying to figure out if my own friends like me, let alone a girl I might want to date, let alone her father.

      2. Only father I was actually intimidated by was the district attorney for my city…….
         Cops would glance at me and wave as they passed my car while I dated her.

3. Can’t wait to pass this my neighbor with three teenage daughters. The girls complain he cleans the hunting rifles when the boys show, but you know what? All three have nice boyfriends!

4. I’m not the scary one.

   I threaten future boyfriends all the time. My daughter, thankfully, is not dating at this time. She’s 14, so she has a couple or 15 years to go.
   I asked my wife what SHE would do if darling daughter was hurt by a boy……

   “I’d skin him with a dull spoon.”

   See…I’M just trying to weed out and protect the stupid ones……..

   1. The joke with my family was that my sister would introduce the guy to our dad, who would be cleaning a gun, and about halfway through he’d pack it up, hand it to her, and say “Here, yours is all clean. Now go get mine.”

      Small irony in that my sister has at least one gun that’s larger than any of the ones our dad has.(and I have 2.)

5. Why exactly can’t my daughter have HERSELF home by 10:00?

   1. because it might be considered carjacking if she beat the crap out of her date and take the car?

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