re: #17 allegro

What I was thinking of actually is the way his family tries to dig so deep to tell a fun story about “dad” to humanize him and make him likable. All they can come up with is his pushing his kids’ faces into their ice cream and leading a blind woman into a door… so fucking hilarious. He tried to do it himself with the “funny” story about Seamus, terrified on the car roof.

The guy is an asshole with an ugly, mean sense of humor (if one can call it that). He laughs at others’ pain and discomfort. This is not a likable man.

According to his wife he’s so cheap he turns off the water heater and tries to convince everyone that cold showers are just fine. She thought that would be a funny little story to tell Jay Leno, but it made him sound like a cross between Scrooge McDuck and Montgomery Burns.