greg's retirement

adam's dad is finally retiring.  he's been a professor at calvin college for over 40 years and he's finally throwing in the towel and going to try the retired life!  adam and his sister have been planning a special retirement party for him and adam invited aaron and i to stop in as well.  we've known adam's dad since we were young kids in grade school and would come over to the house and make silly home movies with their camcorder- so we go way back!  he has since insisted that we actually call him greg, so we oblige, though it still feels weird to not call him 'adams dad'...
well, one of the things that adam wanted to do was to make the event an extra special one.  the best way to do that, of course, is to order a singing telegram!  back when we were little there were always these terrible local commercials for singing telegrams.  adam was always obsessed with them, so when he found out that they were still in business all these years later, he knew he had to order one for his dad!
it turned out to be hilarious!  a guy showed up in a monkey outfit and sang a special song just for greg- he seemed to make it up as he went along, pulling from what he saw around the room and peppered in some info that adam had given him ahead of time.  overall, it was hilarious and well worth it- i would totally recommend it!
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