Dad's Gonna Kill Me

Okay - so I HAVE to, simply HAVE to, relay some thoughts from Dad. Yes, Dad. Rex D. P. I'm sure he is like most of the other guys we know who watch it only because the girls in their lives do and they are giving us due reciprocity for all the football games we've knitted and cooked and worked puzzles through. I love that he knows what all the fuss is about (along with Derek and Joel and probably Zane and half the boys Paige and Brooke know, etc.).


That said, in our conversation, he laughed at the blogs posted so far and even though he's not a blogger himself, he enjoyed reading our running commentary. At which point I reminded him that the invitation to our blog is open to the men-folk as well. As near as I can quote he said the following:

• (laughing at the thought) I'm not sure I should put what I'm thinking. I'd like to poke that guy in the snout!
  
• He said the same thing to every girl on their home town dates like telling them he was falling in love with them and asked every girls' dad if he could marry them, giving them each the indication that he wanted to. [exactly - he didn't need to do that, there's all that time they have to kill on the day of the final rose. A phone call to "papa" could be fit in there some where, right?]
  
• They eliminate the girl who was involved with people on the staff but they keep a girl like Vienna around who they must have known was involved in all kinds of shady behavior before she got there [which I must say was a very valid point I'd not thought of before - just because half these girls weren't messing around on set for the week or two they were there means they're more "worthy" to hang around and get two-timed on than two-timing Rozlyn? Interesting observation...]
  
• After reading about who some of these girls are in every day life made his stomach turn and makes him disappointed in the workings of the show all around. Why would they know these things and not reveal them to the Bachelor - drama value aside? Let the guy at least make an informed choice. If Jake has been choosing Vienna after knowing what she did to her husband while he was in Iraq,etc., then I guess he gets what he gets. In Dad's words, "Then I could pick the guy up by his ear and...."

Big smiles in my face from all of this - hopefully yours too! See Dad? You're a blogger after all!