parents' endearing habits and quirks

[Anonymous]

My mom tells all of us about the other people in her assisted living place. Oh, my that is Edna who's dog died and she no longer goes to water aerobics. WFF? I mean she can't help herself but really?

[Anonymous]

You crazy ladies would go ballistic if you parents or even worse, your in-laws, talked about you this way.

[Anonymous]

My grandmother, when she was alive, had such awful handwriting. Once a month or so she would send us a three or four page letter, and it would take the entire family about an hour to decipher it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mom always needs to get dressed up to go out anywhere . . . Target, Safeway, Denny's. Usually dress slacks, rarely a tshirt. A few times I've been able to talk her into wearing her "nice" jeans. I've never seen her wear shorts or sweatpants beyond the back yard. She's European.

I initially read this as "rarely a shirt". As in, no shirt. Got to the end, and thought "Oh, she's European. I guess that explains it." I'm almost sad that I reread it and now know how you meant it; my way was better.