My father's phrases

He'd say the same things over and over
And he'd smile such a smile
Such a twinkle in his eye

Will you go to brown and serve and get a loaf of bread?
This meant to go to 7-11 or Stop and Go convenience store

Where are you going Daddy?  To Kalamazoo.
What are you doing Daddy?  Baking a cake.

Your friend called, he said, you know, Becky Woodstock.
Daddy, she's named Beccy Mac.
Yes, that's what I said, Becky Woodstock.
And she always was, even though he claimed not to know names.

He had an obsession with the Sail Cats cartoons
Dead flat cats in the middle of the road
These are the only dead cats he would claim

But then he'd be on his hands and knees playing with kittens
Or teaching my tomcat to tap the door and meow to go outside
Look, he'd say, I taught your cat to knock and say out

My mother claimed she fell in love with him the day he fussed about
"The innate perversity of inanimate objects"

How are you today Daddy would elicit two different responses
He was either "finer than frogs hair" or "fair to middling'" depending on the day

My husband today has similar sayings that he always says too
I smile when he says the same thing in the same circumstance
Ah yes, we often marry men like our fathers

"Yogurt" he exclaims when a drawer sticks or he drops a card
And he smiles and gets that exact same twinkle in his eye