re: #216 HappyWarrior

Yep. I mean I know for a fact that my mom’s dad and my mom’s grandfather weren’t exactly sure about my Dad and Grandpa but I doubt they pulled guns on them.

My dad did the whole “in the front room cleaning the rifle” thing on my now brother-in-law. Like, look, I love my sister, but I would never threaten her boyfriend, or joke about it, unless he was treating her wrong.

Actually, Mrs. Fish’s family introduced me to an almost polar opposite concept that I thought was pretty clever. As I’m waiting at the door to go into the church at my wedding, one of my soon-to-be brothers-in-law comes up. He says, “Look, dude, if you’re not sure about this, if you’re having second thoughts, I’ve got keys to my car in my pocket and we can be 10 miles away before anybody knows we’re gone. I’d rather that than you marry my sister and make her miserable.” It made me laugh, it made me think, and it put his mind at ease.