None of it would’ve been possible without Theunis Wessels, a mysterious, magical Canadian super-dad who insisted on mowing his lawn as said twister crawled across the Alberta countryside Friday, just beyond his suburban fence — becoming an instant metaphor for suppressed anxiety, the year 2017, the plight of the married man, the importance of good lawn care and probably much, much more.
Even more credit goes to his wife, Cecilia, who had the presence of mind to snap a picture of her spouse, giving birth to a visual juxtaposition so epic the Internet nearly wet its pants.
“It looks much closer if you look in the photo, but it was really far away,” Theunis told the Canadian Press. “Well, not really far, far away, but it was far away from us.”
“I was keeping an eye on it,” he added.
In honor of the Internet’s current favorite lawn-mowing dad, we assembled a few of the memes left in the viral photo’s wake.
Enjoy.
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