The Photo Taken....

I Got Your Back

• Boone:

  Pick me up.

• Wyatt:

  Yeah. Me, too.

• Me:

  Not right now, guys. I did something to my back.

• Boone:

  What, like, you hurt it? How?

• Me:

  Remember last night when I came home from work? I knelt down to give you both a hug.

• Wyatt:

  Yeah?

• Me:

  It happened then.

• Boone:

  You screwed up your back just kneeling down? That is criminally lame.

• Me:

  I know.

• Wyatt:

  I'm so ashamed. Other dads hurt their back lifting cars off pregnant nuns.

• Me:

  Hold on now. First off, nuns, by definition, shouldn't be pregnant. Second, name one dad who lifted a car.

• Wyatt:

  The Hulk.

• Me:

  The Hulk is not a... I can't believe I'm having this debate.

• Boone:

  Come on, old man. Shake it off. That's what you always tell us.

• Me:

  But, it feels like a knife in my shoulder blade.

• Wyatt:

  I see that you're talking, but all I'm hearing is "Waaa, waaa, waaa!"

• Boone:

  The other day, Wyatt tackled me on the driveway. I fell and skinned my face. My face! And you know what I did?

• Me:

  You punched him in the temple.

• Boone:

  Okay. But, after that I got right back up and kept playing.

• Wyatt:

  It's true. C'mon, Pop. Practice what you preach.

• Me:

  All right, all right. I'll pick you up.... Here we go...

• Boone:

  Yay!

• Wyatt:

  Why are you making that face?

• Me:

  ...my back...

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