bironic

My father manages to alienate/terrify men that I'm not even dating. I took my friend K to the symphony a few years back, completely forgetting that my father had tickets for that series. Naturally, we ran into him in the lobby before the performance. It was the first time K had met my father and once we took our seats, he turned to me and said very seriously, "Your father has taken my measure and found me wanting." He was so intimidated that he refused to leave his seat during intermission, even though his favourite part of any performance was meeting new people in the lobby (unless of course they happened to be my father). Then last year, I took my friend D to a play my father was stage managing. D ran into my dad during intermission and returned completely cowed. "Your father does not approve of me," he said as we slunk back to our seats. To this day they're both convinced that my father hates them.