Monday 15 October 2007

Who's your daddy?

Australian-Americanisms:
My old man won't let me call him my old man because he says that would mean he's my dad...and he calls his dad his old man and his mom his old lady, the latter of which kinda weirds me out...

He also doesn't want me to call his mom and dad...mom and dad...the only time I've ever seen him be possessive;)

3 comments:

Alaskan Dave Down Under said...

I call my dad The Old Fart. It's also the name of one of my ancient computers, but he doesn't know that.

Suzer said...

My husband seems to take more offense to the 'old' part than anything else. No matter what I say, he won't accept that it's a term of affection.

Muddiah said...

Tell Steve about my new neighbors. They're in their early to mid twenties and the other day when I was speaking with Tom, he began to refer to his wife..."my o..., my wife". I asked if he was about to call her his old lady, he said yes and we both laughed. Yep, here it's no big deal :-)