As you may or may not be aware my friend and creative partner is going through a hard time after a bad break up. Recently I brought this up in casual conversation with my parents. The conversation went something like this.
Dad: You look a little melancholy son. Me: Oh there is a lot going on right now. I am still getting over being sick, I�m worried about my friend Amy who is coming off a bad break up, I had to work last weekend, things are uncertain at my job right now, Grand Pa is dying in the hospital….. Dad: Oh yea that girl Amy. Where does she live? Me: The next state over. Dad: So are you going go out and see her, you know since she is on rebound. Me: …………….what?
Somehow even after a long day at work, with the stress of my grandfather possibly dying in the hospital,my father managed extract from my convoluted mumbling that there was a female I knew who had just become single. To my horror I also realize that was all my father had heard. My personal troubles, her tail of heart break, my ill-healthed grandfather all had somehow been missed. I began to realize my father really wanted me to find a girl friend. I mean apparently he REALLY wanted me to get a girl friend as he was advocating I go to another state, to met a girl he only heard me mention occasionally, whom I never met before, while she is in her moment of hear break and sorrow.
My father scares me. This was the most awkward thing since my friend told me saying �Sleep Tight� was flirting, a saying I had been tossing at both genders for as long as I could remember.
Clearly I underestimated the importance of a girl friend to the family unit and how much importance my parents put on such things. Previously the most mind blowing thing in my parents mentality was my mother�s obsession with me and plaid shirts with khaki pants.
I started off with the response well enough,
Me: Well, you know, she is heart broken really I only know her like a pen pal so I don�t think that would be appropriate.
Then my brain failed me and allowed me to continue talking.
Me (Stupidly): Plus I�m kind of busy right now for a girl friend you know with my web comic.
I think my father is worried about me now, apparently the solution to my problem is a girl friend. And while I'm no opposed to this prospect now there is a sudden and real need to get a girl friend soon; I�m afraid of what my parents will do otherwise.
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