FOR SALE My Catalog of Dad Jokes
Reader's Digest India|September 2023
Once your kid stops laughing at "Why didn't Han Solo enjoy his steak dinner? It was Chewie!" it's time to move on
Gary Rudoren
FOR SALE My Catalog of Dad Jokes

I STILL REMEMBER THE first time I told my then-six-year-old son, Lev, that a clam makes calls with its 'shell phone. The laugh of recognition when he first got the joke was a moment I won't ever forget. When I told it a second time in front of his friends Henry and Amir, I could see how proud he was that I had made his friends laugh. Excuse the bragging, but I was the cool dad.

By Lev's ninth birthday party, things had begun to change. After the seventh or eighth time I asked him "What do you call someone with no body and no nose?" he dismissively rolled his eyes. "I get it, Dad..."

"... Nobody knows!"

"Stop it, Dad!"

I immediately shifted gears into food puns, reminding him and his friends that melons have weddings because they 'cantaloupe, but I got nothing except head shakes and averted eyes. I'm pretty sure I heard him say "Sorry about my dad" to his friends as they all ran off to play on their phones together.

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