I just heard an ad on the radio for the local “head shop”, you know “smoking accessories (wink, wink)”, mentioning Fathers Day gifts. WTF??
I don’t know about y’all, but I would never get my dad a gift from that kind of store- I wouldn’t want him knowing I shop there.
All I could picture was the old anti-drug PSA “I learned it from you, dad! I learned it by watching you!!”
So, who wants a brand new bong for Fathers Day? Speak up. “Hey, Junior, you know what I could really use…”
Its entirely possible that my son might buy me something from a head shop. We are a thermonuclear family, largely countercultural/lefty types. So sure.
It is unlikely to a bong, however, as my son has little faith in my abilities to deal with complicated apparatus.
I, like most guys, regard Mother’s Day as the real one, with Father’s Day tacked on almost off-handedly. We take our roles in the matter with bemused compliance.
Hey! I worked at a head shop back in the day, and while our main draw was the smoking section, we actually carried a lot of nice gifty-type things as well. Figurines, clothes, hats, adultish items, candles, carved boxes…
this has been bella, for your local headshop, please come again…
Actually, I agree that head shops can actually have a lot of other cool stuff in them. If my Dad weren’t dead, who knows? I might get him something from one.
Some people would be happy to get a Father’s Day gift no matter where it came from.
True, any gift should be nice, and they do stock stuff besides bongs and zig-zags. In fact, the only place I’ve ever actually seen garden gnomes for sale is my local head shop.
Garden gnomes support terrorism.
That’s damn funny
Well, it could be worse-you could see someone buying a Father’s Day gift in a porno shop.
The mind’s eye conjures an image of a tow-headed Norman Rockwell tyke (that’s tyke) carrying in his jar of change to the XXX-Hot Shoppe to buy his dad a blow up doll.
Awwwwwwwww.
If I was buying my dad a father’s day gift, I’d probably buy it at the porn shot. (shoot, there’s 4 within walkng distance of my house…)
Heck, we’ve been taking our daughter to one of the local head shops since she was a teenager. One or the other of us HAD to accompany her, in fact, before she turned 18, as the shop didn’t allow unaccompanied minors in the store. None of us ever bought any paraphenalia, but we DO like their selection of pewter figurines (I particularly like the one of a hobbit, running VERY fast, carrying a jewel as large as his head, while a dragon has caught the end of the hobbit’s cloak in one talon) and other fancy stuff. In fact, today my daughter wore a tshirt from this shop, a nice tie dyed one.
This shop carries a lot of items that my husband might enjoy for a gift, even if we rule out all of the “smoking accessories” and things like weights and balances.
If I had a child of age, I would be touched if she visited a head shop to get her old coyote something.
I would be even more touched if she would give me something I could put in something from a head shop.
One head shop here features dear old Grandma in its radio ads…
phone rings
<Grandma> Sonny, are you there?
<Son> Ma, why are you calling? It’s 4:20 in the morning!
<Grandma> I know, and I can’t find my pipe!
Well, a couple weeks back a guy came into the bbokstore and ordered “A Woman’s Guide to Self-Pleasuring” and added “It’s a mother’s day present.”
Talk about a thoughtful son .
i have purchased father’s day presents from headshops. i’ve even done so in multiple years.
my daddy makes a much better teenager than i ever did.
At least the government is doing something about it…
*M I S S O U L A, Mont. — It looks like it’s the end of the line for the Gnome Liberation Front… *
Well, see, sometimes wives buy stuff for their husbands for Father’s Day, not just kids for their dads. So the sex angle might not always be inappropriate.
Kelly Osbourne?