So, I just wanted you all to understand who I'm dealing with when I tell you about my parents.
1) When I mentioned during my last visit to my folks that they should get a copy of their credit report to ensure that everything was correct they told me that they had no idea what a credit report was and in fact had never heard of a 'credit score'. I explained it to them and they gave me that look - you know the look that you give a teenager when they say 'I'm so ugly I'll never have a boyfriend!!!'? The look that says 'you are such a child'? They gave me that look and said 'that's not for people like us'.
2) When I mentioned to my mom that I wanted to go to my sister's to check my email (they don't have a computer) she was baffled because she thought email got delivered to your computer and didn't understand how I could check it at a computer that was not mine.
3) My mom believes, quite firmly, that the world is only a few thousand years ago and that there were dinosaurs but that they roamed the earth at the same time as humans. When I pressed her for how the dinosaurs could have died out and not the humans she said, and I quote 'who says the dinosaurs were vicious? Why couldn't they have been friends with the people?'
4) And finally, when my mom and dad told my sister that they were going to take her out for her birthday they told her that they would go anywhere she wanted as long as it wasn't 'too ethnic'. Olive Garden did not pass that test.
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*LAUGH*
Lord have mercy...and I thought my family was odd. :)
You know, I once dated a guy who wouldn't eat ethnic food because he said that he never knew what "those people" put in the food. "Those people" meaning who, exactly? I stopped dating him shortly after...
#3 sounds very plausible to me. I've watched the Flintstones!
And I think they should be admired for not caring what a credit score or a credit report are. We should all be so lucky!
I love when people refer to 'ethnic food'. Isn't all food ethnic?
Ahhhh Olive Garden. A seething hive of scum and villany if ever there was one.
OMG I almost peed my pants over the Olive Garden. Too funny!
Reba
The Olive Garden part is also funny, cause if you live in NYC, you would NEVER go there since it's so NOT authentic Italian (ethnic) food and there's so many "real" Italian places instead.
There is a small place here called Mama DiSalvo's that makes me drool--and Dominic's, which will have you reeking of garlic for the next 6 days...
Olive Garden isn't bad, it's just not that original or special. I prefer Bravo over the Garden.
Do you suppose that non-American people call American food "ethnic food" the same way that we call non-American dishes ethnic?
At any rate, I'm up for any of it...Indian, Thai, Chinese, Lebanese, Cuban, Korean...yumm-o!
I think I love you, "the girl."
And I caved...I bought a cheapo copy of Harry Potter 6 (even though it was my least favorite of the lot) and will try to read through it before 7 comes in the mail. I forget so much after I read it...I wanted it to be fresh in my mind. And Harry Potter 5 on the big screen this weekend. WOO!
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