Mr.Bedelia

Mr. Bedelia is the father of Amelia Bedelia who is a telephone repairman, or "operator" as she puts it. He tells rather a lot of jokes, which Amelia Bedelia shifted between liking and disliking in her childhood. He is a free spirit and when Amelia Bedelia was a child, she believed the markings on the moon looked like her father's face. Mr.Bedelia has dark hair, a mustache, and glasses. He thinks vegetables are for rabbits. When he was a teen, he worked part-time with his future wife in a drugstore where she worked at the cash register and he was a soda jerk. Later, he became a marketer, then eventually he gave that up and became a telephone repairman.

Body Language
He and his wife are very intuitive and have a few body language tics which only they understand. As a child, Amelia called this "secret parent code". Here are a few of their body language tics and what they mean.
 * 1) One looks at the other and arches one eyebrow = I'm unsure about the safety of this idea.
 * 2) Both stare intently at each other = mulling something over.
 * 3) One tips their head to one side, the other puts their eyebrows together = we're worried about our daughter. This tic was mentioned before Ike Bedelia was born, so it's unknown if they used the same or a different expression when they were worried about him.
 * 4) Both arch their eyebrows at each other = there is an important topic that has to be discussed.