f*ck you very much.

this would be "thank you very much"s
rebellious older cousin, I'd say.

My parents picked me up from my NYC apartment one weekend to bring me home to Jersey. On the car ride home, my father proceeded to ask me questions about what I did over the weekend (rage, what else?) and with whom I did these activities. I'm usually pretty good about answering all his questions, since I know much too well what it feels like to be curious about unnecessary things, so I rattled off answer after answer. At one point however, I retorted with, "Whyyy daddy??? You wouldn't know even if i told you!" He got slightly peeved and told me that was a horrible way to carry-on a conversation and that it was rude and impolite and curt aaand... get my drift?

A few days later, I met up with him to have lunch and he kept answering all my questions with "Why? You wouldn't know even if i told you." He was clearly mocking me, as he so often does. See, the thing is, my dad always responds with "I can't tell you" to MY questions so I attempted to equate my brusque response to his. Here is what he said:

Daddy: "Jinjin, let's say I had a meeting with a client."
Me: "Uh-huh..."
Daddy: "Let's say the next day, another client asked what I did with client A."
Me: "Uh-huh..."
Daddy: "If I said to him, 'I can't tell you... but would you like to set-up a meeting with me next week to find out?' then I may have just made another business opportunity for myself."
Me: "Uh-huh..."
Daddy: "But, let's say I said to client B, 'Why do you wanna know? You wouldn't know even if I told you!' then client B would just go, 'F*ck you very much!' and I'll be in deep sh*t!"
Me: "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA!!!!!"

The end.

Haha, jk. The moral of his story is that... I don't really know. I just never heard anyone say "f*ck you very much!" and the way my dad said it was hilarious.

Cheers,

Cheryl

PS: I DO know the moral of the story and the lesson my daddy was trying to teach me; I just don't care to elaborate on it 'cus I trust that my readers are wise enough to understand. Don't fail me, readers.