several months ago my father retired from the national guard and he got a big sending off party and award ceremony. during this ceremony, my mother, my sister, and me stood up to receive bouquets of flowers.

my dad went down the line, handing each of us a thing of flowers and kissing us. however, we he got to me, he looked me dead in the eyes, kissed my cheek, gave me flowers, and said "goodnight"

i was going to let it slid. and then his commanding officer was like "did you just??? tell her goodnight???" and my dad just died right there on the spot, i related so hard to him at that moment

he managed to spin it into a "that's right, boys. make sure you tell your kids goodnight ever night" speech, but oh boy