Carful With Those Dad Jokes

I was pushing Aspen around a pumpkin patch in a wheelbarrow when a woman said, “Is she a pumpkin?” And in true dad fashion I said, “Yes. We are going to carve her into a jack-o-lantern and put a candle in her belly.”

We all knew I was joking: the lady, the pumpkins, God, everyone... except Aspen. She looked up at me as though I’d actually approached her with a knife (which I hadn’t). But rather than drop it, I pressed forward in true dad fashion with “Don’t worry, kiddo. You will make an adorable jack-o-lantern. You can live on the porch and scare away the devil.”