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My father, uninterested in sticking around

  • My father, uninterested in sticking around for the next life saving maneuver, had stumbled back into his old truck and swerved off toward the liquor store.
  • And then he stopped. He looked at me with red eyes and said, "I can't do this anymore." And he took off his trucker hat. "Son, I'm a fraud. I ain't a redneck. I'm Luis Miguel
  • Mellencamp. I might sing these songs for the working man, but I'm really just a failed painter" The tears in his eyes said it all. He wanted to be a better man than he had been...
  • before his alien abduction. His time above had changed him and he was short fused when it came to earthly
  • dalliances. For the first time in his existence he knew what was truly important and he had the aliens to thank for it. He quit his job, and instead
  • helped the aliens inseminate earth females full-time. His job was to
  • pull down the alien three legged pants and carefully guide the third leg into slot B thus ensuring a proper fit and thrust angle for the insemination to be successful and
  • found to his utter dismay that the third leg was woefully inadequate and tiny. Slot B started giggling and skipped away from him, toward another
  • Tab A. Those fickle slots just didn't care whose Tab was inserted or whether the directions were followed. No wonder Christmas Eve was hell for fathers, most never knew a bad Tab
  • from a so-so Mr. Pibb.

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