Klarinet Archive - Posting 001058.txt from 2000/10

From: Bonnie Davis <bdskees@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Anecdote: 14 years old
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:55:24 -0400

Bill,
Tell her that "Music Art" fellow would have been the
first one on the dance floor when he was her age (and
from all I've read, you probably would have watched
him veeeeeeery closely around your daughter).

--- William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net> wrote:
> (especially for Dan Leeson)
>
>
>
> When I picked my daughter up at school today,
> she asked me to take
> her to a restaurant "where we can have a serious
> conversation, Dad."
> Since McDonald's is our favorite restaurant for
> 'serious conversations',
> that's where I took her.
> But when it came time to converse seriously,
> she started beating
> around the bush. What was bothering her? Something
> about boys? drugs?
> new clothes? grades at school?
> It turned out that she was making plans for her
> 14th birthday
> party. Exactly what would I allow her to do on her
> 14th birthday?
> She and I beat around the bush for another 10
> minutes while I made
> some suggestions -- a beach party, rent-a-clown or
> rent-a-magician, pony
> rides (I'm GROWN-UP now, D-A-A-D!). Finally I
> asked if she was
> thinking about hiring a disc jockey.
> "Yes, that may work, Dad." Very tentative.
> So we began to
> discuss exactly how much noise would be permissible
> in our back yard,
> perhaps we'd need to have the party in a city park
> instead... No? I
> still don't understand?... "Do you want to hire a
> live band, Kristina?"
> "Yes, Dad! Now you're catching on!" But still
> her voice had that
> special note of unresolved issues. What in the name
> of heaven was I
> missing? Surely she didn't want _me_ to play? Did
> she have in mind
> hiring a big name group whom I couldn't afford... 'N
> Sync, or Backstreet
> Boys or the like?
>
>
>
> Finally she burst out with it.
>
>
>
> "I know you, Dad! You're gonna hire a
> classical band and they'll
> play Music Art, or whatever that guy's name is!"
>
>
>
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