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As I mentioned before, my oldest daughter is 16.
These go into use as of today!!
What's that son, you say you want to take my daughter to
the movies?!
Why don't you sit down for a few minutes and
fill-out this permission sheet. If you answer
any questions incorrectly................
Thanks Lynn!
Steve
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No problem Steve. It was actually pretty funny. I had shown it to my daughter when she was about 12, and told her that any prospective boyfriends would have to fill it out. Kind of took the pressure off of her, because when she was 15 and guys started asking her out, she didn't have to come up with an excuse if she didn't want to go. She would just say, "you have to come to my house and fill out an application for my Dad." Needless to say, if they didn't have "good intentions" they didn't make it to the house for the interview.
She brought the first guy over, a kind of shy, clean cut kid named David. After about 2 or three minutes filling it out, I went over, put my hand on his shoulder and asked if he were nervous. "No, not at all" was his quick response. I said, "Hmm, that's funny because you misspelled Oklahoma City!" We had a good laugh.
I also had a rule that any guy that came to pick her up absolutely was not honking the horn. He was required to come to the door. My daughter is 23 now, and was married last July to a guy who is so respectful to her. Over the last 8 years I have seen her dump guy after guy the first time they treated her disrespectfully. She just wouldn't put up with it, and boy did that make me proud of her. You have to understand also, that she holds a special place in the family. I am one of four boys, and all my brothers had only boys. My first two kids were boys. My poor Mom thought she would never get a granddaughter. In fact she was the first girl Bilodeau (related to me) born in something like 40 years!!! Of course, I still think she is special, and not just because she changes her own oil, can do her own brake job and likes to help me with projects. Sure do miss having her around since she got married.
Lynn