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Daddy's Rules For Dating

MJ DeMarco

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A must read for anyone with a daughter!!

Don't know the orginal source, if someone does, please attribute. It's been recycled so many times in all kinds of forums, I don't know who the original author is.

Daddy's Rules for Dating

Rule One:
If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.

Rule Two:
You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.

Rule Three:
I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants t en sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

Rule Four:
I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a “Barrier method†of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

Rule Five:
It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is: “early.â€

Rule Six:
I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Seven:
As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process than can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

Rule Eight:
The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with strong romantic or sexual themes are to be avoided; movies which feature chain saws are okay. Hockey games are very okay. Old folk’s homes are better.

Rule Nine:
Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.

Rule Ten:
Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit the car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safe and early, then return to your car - there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.
 
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Rule Eight:
The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with strong romantic or sexual themes are to be avoided; movies which feature chain saws are okay. Hockey games are very okay. Old folk’s homes are better.

LOL, my favorite!
 

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The camouflaged face at the window is mine! hahaha..

Man this is relevant now more than ever. These kids today are doing crazy stuff at young ages you wouldn't have even thought possible just a few years ago. When you're 12 year old is doing things you've never even done at 35, you know you've got problems...

Way to stay on top of it, Dad's everywhere -

- Hakrjak
 

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My Wendy is only 8. I still have her convinced that she has to be old enough to be out of college to have a boyfriend lol.


these days dont last long do they. Im scared!
 
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I am not catholic, but I may look into making my three girls nuns. It is safest that way I think.
 

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Dating is ok, but today's dating is different than what I experienced and, well, performed.

In the end it comes all down to this one:
Rule Four:
I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a “Barrier method†of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

My only hope is, that in 10 years things changed for the better. However, I'm not that confident...
 

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Don't you think it's sort of odd that someone named AlwaysCurious would even dare post in this thread???:D
exactly, once you act out your on your curiousity, you are not longer curious. AlwaysCurious must be as pure as the wind driven snow :rofl:
 

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Great post. Since I am raising my 17yo daughter these rules are in my life everyday. Cell phones and living in a small community also help a lot.:thumbsup:
 
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If I have kids, I'd feel really, really bad for them. I was the worst teenager ever, and worked with "troubled" (understatement) teens for several years. I've seen just about everything between my poor choices and theirs. Man, it was really fun catching them sneak out, hung over or high. (Of course I wish they had all been little angels, but hey if they are going to make bad choices I was gonna make them miserable.)

Oh the stories I could tell...about them and about me! lol!
 

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After having a teenage sister I don't think I could handle having a teenage daughter. But so far I've been able to live out both perspectives: going to the girl's house and picking her up, and having a guy come to my house who's picking up my sister. I'm not a big fan of the second one.
 

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