Dad jokes and broken hearts. We’ve all heard them and we’ve all had them. But what is it when a child walks into his father’s room and tells what would have been an all-time greatest hits contender of a Dad Joke?

First a bit of setup. My first broken heart occurred when I was about this young lad’s age. I’d been not so secretly crushing on one of the girls in my Kindergarten class. Then one day it was over. I seem to have blotted that bit of personal history from my memory but my mother tells me I came home and was simply inconsolable with sadness. When she asked what happened I blurted out that my crush had broken up with me. I’ve never quite recovered and am a pushover for redheads to this day.