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Ed Driscoll talks to Dave Barry about his new book, You Can Date Boys When You’re Forty

April 7, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

Dave Barry wrote what I’ve often called “the funniest book I’ve ever read” so I’m looking forward to listening to this interview:

“One day at 4:30 in the afternoon,” Dave Barry writes in his latest book, his 13-year old daughter Sophie, “went into her bathroom, which is pink, and WHOOM!, some kind of massive hormone bomb went off there.”

The result has been utter chaos, both for Sophie, and especially for Dave himself, who’s having to deal with a massive influx of boys visiting his house. (…)

“And I don’t like it, Ed,” he insists. “ I used to be a boy.  I’ve been a male my entire life.  And let’s be honest.  We’re scum.  Of all the genders, we’re the worst one.  And that’s exactly the gender that is showing up now around our house.  And I Don’t. Like. It.”

 

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