‘Now THIS Is What I Call CHIP TIME,’ Running Dad Says Yet Again
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A local runner yesterday joked about his afternoon snack with his wife and two children, Dumb Runner has learned, and was met with silence.
Robert Young, 47, walked through the first floor of his home with a bowl of potato chips, sources said, seeking out his family and loudly declaring, “Now THIS is what I call CHIP TIME!”
Young paused for a reaction and got none.
“Get it?” he added. “Huh?”
The joke is a pun that few, if any, non-runners would understand; “chip time” refers to a runner’s net finishing time in a race, as recorded by a timing chip—these days, more likely a small RFID tag on a bib number—that marks a runner’s passing the start and finish lines.
Young laughed at his own joke, the sources said, and sat to eat his snack.
It was not the first time the father of two has made the joke, according to Young’s wife, Jane Wyatt.
“Every time he eats potato chips, corn chips, any kind of chip,” Wyatt said by phone. “Every single time. Same joke.”
Reached for comment, Young interrupted Dumb Runner at the mention of potato chips.
“Potato chip?” Young said. “More like potato QUIP!”
Young then laughed and hung up.
