Unexpected

Me: "I love tiny things!"
Mom: "Be careful saying that to your boyfriend."
...

An Excerpt

from a telephone conversation with my mother.

Marie: "And I didn't spot Prince Charming in my class, which was too bad."
Mom: "I'd been wondering about that, actually."
Marie: "Well, there aren't any cute guys, at least...........well, not that I always go for the cute ones, I guess."
(At this point Ashley nods knowingly. Thanks.)
Marie: "...you there?"
Mom: "Just trying to think of what to say..."
Marie: "Tell me to hold out for a cute one!"
Mom: "Oh, I wouldn't say that. The cute ones are usually cocky. I mean, God rewarded ME, but..."

Mom and Dad

Breakup advice from my mom:
"It's like a physical wound. You have to go through the healing process; it takes time. Think of it like a broken leg. And you haven't even had the cast set; you're still waiting at the emergency room."
"But I don't want to be with anyone else!"
"Well, of course not. You're not thinking about going running when your leg just broke, because it hurts."

Breakup advice from my dad:
"Geeze, don't call him! There's no need to put HIM through your emotional roller coaster."

*sigh.*

I do have awesome parents...

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.