How To Become A Super Hero
My son Michael came up to me today and asked, “Dad, how do you become a Super Hero?”
I thought about it for a moment and said, “Well, you have to go to Super Hero school, study real hard. Then you go to Super Hero high school and then Super Hero college.”
My son, who really likes school smiled. My wife, who didn’t like the idea that I was filling his head with crap, chimed in.
“Michael, you need a super power. To be a Super Hero you have to have a super power.”
My son went from happy to disappointed. I sneered at her.
“No you don’t,” I said. “Iron Man doesn’t have a super power, he’s just really smart. He built a super suit. So if you study real hard, you can build a super suit too.”
He was happy again.
And then I thought to myself, Batman doesn’t have super powers, and I went through all the Super Heroes in my head and compared which ones did and which ones didn’t. Then I realized that I wasted a lot of time growing up reading a lot of comic books.
No time wasted at all
Love it! My girls are under the impression that policemen, firefighters, paramedics and military servicepeople are superheroes. That makes their Dad, Grandpa, and Great Uncle superheroes in their eyes.
Seriously, when it comes to this kind of stuff, what the hell do wives know anyway (safely typed whilst mine is at work)?
Sideache:
You really think so?
Sadia:
I would rather have him be a superhero, it’s much safer.
@goonerjamie:
Yeah, my wife isn’t too comic book savy
I thought all you needed was a cape, and underwear as outerwear?
NOW he’s asking me to sew him a Superhero costume! (Thanks!) It must be metal with lights and shooting things, and a cape (didn’t I just sew him a cape last year???) I’m awaiting final blueprints…