Father's Glasses

A funny-hold-your-breath story of Francis Kong we often find ourselves into - making excuses!

     My father is a creature of habit. After dinner he would go to his room, sit on his favorite chair, wear his reading glasses and read the newspapers. This routine went on for many years.

     One evening, my father became very upset. He couldn’t find his glasses. You see, my dad is a very gentle and soft-spoken person, but when he’s mad, he’s really mad! Everybody scrambled to look for his glasses. My two brothers started moving chairs and tables and my mom started looking under everything, but nobody could find his reading glasses.


    Out of depression, my mother said, “Why don’t you look in your desk drawer and see if your glasses are there?”


     My dad replied, “Am I that stupid? If my glasses were in my drawer, would I still ask you to look for it?”

    My mother kept quiet. She turned to all of us in the house and said, “Look for your father’s glasses, all of you.”

     After more than an hour of unproductive search, my mother looked at my father and said, “Just one more time now. Could you please look into your drawers and see if your glasses are there?”

     Mumbling, as old men are in the habit of doing, he opened his drawer, looked inside. We couldn’t see the drawer’s contents from where we were standing but we did see a look of surprise from my father’s face.

      His eye’s widened but his brows narrowed. We didn’t need to be psychologists for conclude that his glasses were inside his drawer all along.

      There was a moment of suspenseful silence, a little like the calm before the storm. I could sense my mother’s anger rising. “What would my father say this time?” I wondered.


       As he held up his glasses, he looked at all of us and with a loud voice said, “Okay. Now who put my glasses back inside my drawer?”

We make excuses all the time. You and Me? Yes, all the time. But remember, its just so funny and ridiculous for the one who knows the truth.