No, it's not a pun on "relative"!

Welp, U can't say I didn't warn U. As I was fastening my seatbelt, just B4 Dad drove me an' Dixie home following my recent visit w/Gramps and Iris, Dad (wearing that uggo driving cap of his) was all, "How's yr Grandpa?" Instead of saying, "How 'bout U come up sometime and find out 4 yrself," I sed, "Fine. But he sleeps a lot. Iris sez he's depressed and tends 2 live in the past." After I finished fastening my belt and Dad started driving, I added, "I guess I can understand. Sumtimes, U guys talk abt, U know.... 'the good old days'. U talk abt driving a Plymouth, jiving, bobby sox, Elvis..." Dad interrupted me w/"W8 a minute! Elvis is not OLD! Charlie Chaplin is old. Flappers R old. A Model T Ford is old...." And as Dad sat there w/his mouth gaping over, mayB mulling over the horror of realizing that his cultural references R old, I thot, "I guess 'old' is relative!!"

And B4 U jump 2 certain conclusions just cuz I'm a Patterson, no, that was not a pun cuz Dad is my relative ("a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage"). I was only using the word in THIS sense: "Considered in comparison with something else: the relative quiet of the suburbs."

Apes