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[razorjak]

Boooooored ... and on painkillers until they can pull this thrice damned tooth.

So, entertain me people. Tell me about your worst and best first encounter with a lover's family.

If I get enough posts, I'll post my own for your enjoyment.

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[montieth.livejournal.com]

Best would be going to visit Lara's parents and on the same trip her grandmother. Her parents were ok with me I think, no friction that I could detect. Her grandmother, a warbride from the UK, absolutely loved me. So much so that her parents were warned that they were under "NO Circumstances" to complain if on any of their visits to the US they found that Lara and I were living in sin.

Even now that Lara and I are broken up, Lara's parents still apparently like me a great deal.

I usually seem to get on better with parents than I typically do with a lover sadly.

[reddragdiva]

Same here. I have always had the Charm Suburban Mothers superpower.

[montieth.livejournal.com]

What was more notable is that her Gran is the organist for the Church. This is in a VERY small town in rural Texas. Though she is British, still, apparently, my D20 roll was a natural 20.

[cavalorn.livejournal.com]

'My dad thinks you're awesome for refusing to fuck me till I'm legal.'

I was lost for words, I tell you.

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

You're fucking kidding me.

[pattyla16.livejournal.com]

My ex's step mother pretty much came right out and told him I was fatter than she expected.

[treebyleaf.livejournal.com]

You just became my writing exercise for the day.

So: Norwescon. I am dressed in about four ounces of billowy, gauzy, belly-dancy stuff with a line of fake pearls around my exposed midriff, gulping down hot food fast in hospitality, when I see a skinny aquaintance threading his way toward me with a pair of tiny, blown-glass delicate little old people, very conservative dressed.

Toph says to me, "Do you know who these are?" and I am chewing like crazy, preparing to swallow, preparing to say, "Why, you must be Toph's family, how lovely to meet you-"

- and Toph continues, "These are Mike's parents."

"Mike" being my built-like-bull twenty-something paramour, who'd only just recently returned from the visit to his parents at which he'd told them he was 1) getting a divorce and 2) seeing someone else.

I swallowed in terror and murmured valiently, "I'm Tree,"

And his mother replied, in her perfect dry British dialect with that trace of quaver from age, "Yes. We'd gathered that."

= = =

Then there was taking E home to meet my parents, a better story but I am out of time and will therefore leave with the moral The Holocaust should never be brought up with polite restaurant conversation.

[lupusyondergir1.livejournal.com]

Worst/funniest:
My ex and I are driving through Kenmore. I comment that we should have taken a different route since he had a taillight out.
Sure enough, cop rolls up.
Pull over, do the license thing, and wait.
Cop comes back.
Sir. I need you to step out of the car. Sir, are you aware that your insurance is invalid, your registration has been revoked, and your license is suspended?
I think "oh shit"
Cop tells me "here's my card, bail will be X, do you need to use my phone to call for a ride, or do you have one?"
I'm able to get his mom's number, and try his roommate, then her. She answers.

"You must be kelly."
"hi. Um, normally I'd say nice to meet you, but, well..."
"yeah. my son's an idiot. Hop in and we'll bail him out."

(ultimately it turned out the insurance company fucked up, but because they reported it cancelled to the dmv the reg was revoked, and he didn't get the notice. so they suspended his license for not turning in the plates)