What missile? ‘I’m playing golf if it’s the last thing I do,’ Hawaiian dad proclaimed

This is how much Mark Gardner, a high school math teacher in Hawaii, loves golf.

He was out on the golf course Saturday when his family called to tell him that a missile was heading their way.

The alert was a mistake, but no one knew that for a terrifying 38 minutes.

So what did Gardner do?

He played through it.

And he made one last video, or so he thought, for his family.

“If you’re watching this video, that means I didn’t make it, ‘cause of the missile that’s coming towards Hawaii,” he said in the cell phone video he recorded as he walked the fairway and scanned the sky.

“I just parred the last hole and I just hit the shishnik out of my ball. So ... I love you all, but I’m playing golf if it’s the last thing that I’m gonna do.”

His daughter shared the video on social media where it has attracted more than 760,000 views on her Twitter page.

“My dad will live and die golfing,” Alohi Gardner tweeted.

She didn’t seem surprised by what he did.

“He absolutely loves golfing,” she tweeted later. “He hadn’t received the alert on his phone by the time we called him. When we talked on the phone, he sounded calm, and tried to make myself and my family feel that everything will be okay, and that he loved us.

“And that video was just his way of lightening the mood like he always does.”

People are in awe of Gardner’s response.

This story was originally published January 15, 2018 at 8:56 AM with the headline "What missile? ‘I’m playing golf if it’s the last thing I do,’ Hawaiian dad proclaimed."