Miss Self-sufficient

Me: *being appreciative about how Dad drove down to help me move,* "I was pretty helpless..."
Mom: "I don't know how you could be helpless about anything, we raised you to be independent!!!"

:)

I'd never thought of it that way, or she's never put it that way, but, I don't know, it was really cool to hear her say that. When I'm trying to be liberal chic I have a tendency to inadvertently slander my parents. They're not oppressive...they just have some different views on things than I do. Who cares that their politics are different than mine? In this country you really have a fifty fifty shot of that. My parents are far from some horrible fundamentalist stereotype: I was raised to be independent and kick ASS, not to get an MRS degree or to rely on someone to come rescue me.