When it came to classic redhead humor, Dad lived and breathed the stuff

Not by design, you understand. When Elvin M Baker spouted classic redhead humor, he didn't know he was being funny at all. He regularly mentioned going out to catch him a redhead. Never any other color, always a redhead. Trouble was, Mom's hair was brown, and she wasn't all that amused by the thought of him with some other woman.

How did Cannonball Baker (yes, that had been his nickname in high school) get around getting The Eye from Mom? Easy enough: He ALSO always said that he was going to outlive Mom and have three wives. Never mind that Mom outlived HIM by five years; it's the thought that counts.

When it became clear his whole outliving-Mom plan wasn't going to work, I stepped in with a touch of classic redhead humor of my own....

(Back pain? Insomnia? Photo make you shiver? Click on the bikes for quick relief?)

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Classic Redhead Humor In The Nursing Home
Copyright 2008 by Fred Baker

We pulled up to the Nursing Home one cold February day
My Dad was mighty glad to see me though he had not much to say
Until I introduced the girl who had followed me inside
She was a flaming redhead and I said the words with pride
I mentioned that he never had quite done what he'd set out to do
So, Dad, since you never got your redhead, I brought this one for you

I meant it for a joke, you know, oh, how could I foresee
He really thought I'd brought my Pam for him and not for me!
He had Parkinson's and diabetes, 'twas a wonder he still lived
But I saw rejuvenation that only Redhead Power gives
I had to watch he didn't pinch her for he still had spark and fire
I'd like to think I'll have just half the zest when I'm that close to the wire

It went from bad to worse that day, for when we went to go
He stumble-ran right with us, headed for the freezing snow
It was difficult explaining that he really had to stay
But I promised I would bring her to visit every day
Well, truly not that often, for we lived eight hundred miles
To the East, but when we could, we came and made him smile
It was often tense between us, as can be with father-son
But he was miles and miles of smiles when I brought the Little One

Oh, the power of the Redhead, who is fiery, sweet and kind
Even Mom was never jealous, but loved her heart and Soul and mind
The moral of the story, if you really have to know
Don't ever underestimate a redhead; men will follow her in snow

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Dad may not have considered it classic redhead humor, but both he and Mom loved Little Red from the start and from the heart. Dad had even misunderstood one other thing I'd said: I'd promised to bring the Harley around, come summer, and give him a ride.

He thought I meant we were on the bike THAT DAY, in twenty-degree weather with ice on the roads and the wind fixing to kick up...and he STILL thought going home with Pam (and me, as an afterthought) was a great idea!

If a smile counts as humor, then we're good to go. Whenever Pam was in the room, a smile was in Dad's eyes...and on his face.

Thanks for reading,

Fred

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