Knead to Know with Hollis – June 16, 2021

Are you expecting an email full of dad jokes? I hope not. Because while I do have kids, I myself am not a dad. So I guess if I were telling jokes that would make me a faux paโฆ
End scene.
Okay, so now that weโve got that out of the way, letโs carry on to the real heart of the email. The people behind the jokes. The fathers. The grandfathers. Step-dads. Stand-in dads. All the men out there doing all the dad things and everywhere in between. I would say that my dad isnโt a classic dad joke kinda guy, but we do affectionately call him โThe Joke Factoryโ. He is truly a jokester at heart for sure.
In addition to cranking out the jokes from the factory, Mark Murphy is a savvy, hip and ‘with it’ kinda guy. He is a music aficionado, up with memes, Twitter and Instagram. He is one of the best online shoppers I know, able to track down most anything. Heโs on the up and up. So it was extra hilarious that a conversation we had recently (and a story I am about to tell you) literally had me on the floor laughing, unable to believe he was mind-boggled by an email.
(And Daddy, I know youโre reading this, because youโre on our email list, and as previously mentioned youโre on the up and up. You know I love you and hope you donโt mind me sharing this story with a couple thousand of our closest internet palsโฆ)
Letโs set the scene…
We were in the kitchen and my dad (who, as mentioned, reads all of our farm market emails) turns to me and says:
Him: โWhy do you always start your emails at the market with โHi Daddyโ?โ
Me: (Very confused and perplexed) โWhat? What do you mean?โ
Him: โYou know, all your emails start out with โHi Daddy or Good Afternoon Daddyโ and then you carry on with your newsletter. I just have never understood why you call everyone Daddy.โ
Me: (VERY confused) โI honestly donโt kn-โ
And thats when the lightbulb went off for me. ๐ก
My emails often start with a greeting for which we have a special piece of internet code magic โจ that pulls your name from your initial email sign up and pops it in to customize each email. Whereas most of you likely did in fact put your first name, my dad, as you may have guessed entered his first name as โDaddyโ. So because his email greeting was โHi Daddyโ he thought I was addressing all of you the same way.
Hahahahaha. OMG. Shall I pick you up off the floor? I just canโt.
The fact that my ultra-savvy father of mine, thought I was addressing each of you as โDaddyโ still cracks me up. I just canโt.
(Obviously still love you millions Daddy).
And so, to conclude, whether your father is savvy, confused or somewhere in between, we hope you can show him some love this week. Be it in person, from afar or in your thoughts and heart.
Sending you all much love,
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