There are certain defining moments in the relationship between any father and son. Times when a father passes down the wisdom gained through the years, when a son asks those burning questions he doesn’t feel comfortable asking his buddies, the guidance counselor, or the older guys in the gym locker room. And the father sits his son down and they talk long into the night. About why you should get flowers for a girl when you annoy her, about shaving against the grain, about how to keep one’s left arm straight when striking a golf ball. All the important mysteries of the masculine life. These are the moments that live on in a son’s mind throughout his life. Certainly no son would forget that one Fourth of July, he asked his father this question:

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Cleveland Park, July 4:

Young boy to father: “Daddy, is it a problem that my pants are on backwards?”

After the jump, the heights of hyperbole, pre-pubescent porn predilections, and Nair negotiations.

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