One of the requirements of living in the neighborhood that we live in, in Bethesda Maryland, is you have to join and become members of the Bethesda Country Club.
Bethesda Country Club is a very family friendly club. Every year there is an awards ceremony at the club. One of the awards is “Father of the Year”. Only members can nominate other members for awards.
I decided to nominate my husband for the Father of the Year, award. I am biased of course, because he is my husband and the father of our children, but I genuinely believe he is a great father, and worthy of the award.
What I didn’t know, was I wasn’t the only person who nominated MJ. MJ had 22 total nominations/votes for Father of the Year. The runner up for Father of the Year had 16 nominations/votes.
Believe it or not, the runner up for Father of the year died in a car crash 2 days before the Father of the Year awards banquet. The brake line was cut on his car, and the police suspected foul play. The police were trying to find possible suspects, and so they went to the country club to see what they could find out there. While they were there, the police requested a list of members. When the police looked at the list and saw “MJ The Terrible” listed as MJ’s middle name, and not his real name David, that stood out to them. What also stood out, was “MJ The Terrible” and the man who died in a car crash were both up for Father of the Year at the club. They thought it was possible “MJ The Terrible” could have had the other father knocked off, so that he was guaranteed to win Father of the Year.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s came to our house to interview MJ, because although they thought it was unlikely, they thought MJ could have been behind cutting the other nominated father’s brake lines.
MJ had no idea the other father had died, and he had no idea Father of the Year was down to him and the other father who died in a car accident. The sheriff’s asked if they could come in. MJ said- “Sure. What can I do for you?”
I called Brittany (Dubs), our families head of security, and before you know it lawyers from the Department of Defense showed up. By the time they showed up, the questioning was over, and the 2 Montgomery County Sheriffs and MJ were bsing about Tom Brady and the upcoming Superbowl. Then 2 more Montgomery County Sheriffs showed up to tell the 2 sheriffs that were already at our house what they learned when they questioned the wife of the man who died in the accident. Then our new neighbors who we invited over for dinner earlier in the week, to get to know them and be neighborly showed up. Then, and I’m not kidding, 2 Bethesda Police Detectives showed up, because they wanted to coordinate their investigation with the Montgomery Sheriff’s. I’m guessing they somehow knew the Montgomery County Sheriff’s who were conducting the investigation were at our house, so they decided to show up at our house.
The end result was of the day, was we had our first during COVID cookout at the house, with our new neighbors, Bob and Susan, 4 Montgomery County Sheriff’s, 2 Bethesda Police Detective’s, Mr. Pete and Mr. Keith, MJ’s 2 security guards, and Brittany, our families head of security. We called it “Impromptu Barbeque”.
Without giving out too many details about the other nominated Father of the Year whose brakes were cut, let’s just say that the person who may have cut his brakes, could have been one of the apparently several women he was sleeping with on the side.
I feel sorry for the wife and kids of the man who died in the car accident. That said, I believe the right man was awarded Bethesda Country Club’s Father of the Year!
My husband Michael Johnson will probably always be known as “MJ The Terrible”, American Hero hacker, and chief architect of Stuxnet, but as good a hacker that he is, he is an ever better Father/Daddy!
When I nominated MJ for Father of the Year, I submitted the following recording of MJ singing a remake of the Beatles song “Hey Jude”, to our daughter Elizabeth Grace Johnson, to get her to fall asleep. It was a very touching daddy daughter moment, and I am glad I recorded it.
P.S. I do not know how “MJ The Terrible” made it onto your Father of the Year award certificate. I am certain I wrote your real middle name down on the nomination and on our original membership paperwork. I love you baby! Congratulations Michael David Johnson!
