Dad Told Tonight Is One Of Those Nights Where He Should Listen To Music In The Garage Alone

INGRID DOULTON | Girl Mum | Contact

A local Betoota dad has been informed that it’s in his best interests to stay the hell out of the living room tonight.

That’s unless he wants to become a household villain in the eyes of daughters and wife, due to his inability to hold back witty and annoying interjections about modern pop culture.

This comes just hours before his entire family home becomes engulfed in what is predicted to be a bittersweet ending in the American coming-of-age romantic TV drama known as The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Dad has absolutely no idea that this programme has been playing in his house for several years now, and nobody is suprirsed that he has absolutely zero recollection of this major cultural touchpoint for teenage girls and their mothers.

From what he’s been able to absorb in this evening’s dinner conversation, apparently there’s a character called Belly who needs to decide if she wants to stay in Paris – and there’s a bloke traveling there to find her.

This already sounds boring as hell to dad, and he’s kind of happy to give it a steer.

But how could he possibly kill a couple hours without getting in the way of this major television event.

The answer is, according to his wife, to do what he loves doing when he’s trying to avoid the cryptic emotions of his heavily female household.

That is, pull up a chair in the garage, put on the very best of Bruce Springsteen – or maybe some Aussie pub rock like Cold Chisel and the Angels, and drink a few beers.

He’s been advised to stay there until at least 9pm. Maybe later. In fact, stay later if you want but keep in down when you come back in to the house because everyone will be decompressing.

Dad says he has absolutely no problem with this.