This morning I heard the phrase "grandfather oak" in a commercial...
Chip Oak was a senior at Forest High and was in love with Peach, and she pined for him as well.
Shortly after graduation, they tied the knot and decided to start a grove of their own. A year later, they had a girl and named her Heather.
She grew up tall and fast, and when she was sixteen rings old Chip and Peach grudgingly let her start dating. They approved of the more upright suitors she brought home, but more and more she tended toward the seedy guys.
Then, one evening, a guy named Ash came to pick her up. His bushy hair was umkempt and he was smoking. As Heather ran to the door, Chip barked "A bois d'arc like you will not date my little girl!" and slammed the door.
Heather, her heart splintered, ran to her room. That night, she packed a trunk and ran away. The note on her bed simply said, "I'm leaving."
Months later, there was a phone call; Peach answered to hear Heather's voice. When Peach asked where she had been, she said:
"I boarded with Ash and ... and ..."
"What?"
"I'm ... carrying his sapling."
2 comments:
That's a good one. Hey, I saw the name of your blog and just had to come over and take a look. I had heard that phrase on Dr. Phil one time and it stuck. My husband and I say it all the time now.
Thanks for the read! Come to think of it, maybe that's where I heard it too.
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