Notorious “Awkward Question Dad” Strikes Unsuspecting Georgetown Tour Group

CAMPUS—The Office of Admissions confirmed Wednesday that the notorious “awkward question dad,” the bane of admissions officers across the east coast, struck an unprepared Blue & Gray tour group Saturday morning.  The dad has reportedly accompanied his daughter to colleges from Duke to Dartmouth the past few months, asking tour guides about everything from their precise ethnic background to the availability of contraceptives on campus.

The tour guide Amanda Harrison (COL ’11) was frozen in fear when she saw the man in a dress shirt with pit stains raise his hand.  “I heard about him in training,” Harrison recounted. “He usually hangs out in the back so that everyone can hear his questions, and on Saturday, there he was, wondering what my favorite drink is in case he and his daughter see me at a bar later on and can buy one for me.”  After asking Harrison if she could “please speak up,” the dad, using air quotes, finally demanded to know how often students “hook up.”  Unsatisfied with the response, he enquired three more times.  Halfway through the tour and not realizing it was not over, he loudly asked his daughter if she was “ready to go check out GW.”