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Uber Ritter:
Oh yeah, my mom's pretty normal aged.
My dad is pretty damned old given that I'm just finishing college.  Like it's a good thing that my brother is getting married because at least my dad will meet some of his grandkids even if I don't plan on spawning anytime soon.  He's 8 years my mom's senior, though they met in college--he was just the old guy in their class, or one of them, anyway.  Had been in the Navy, bummed around a bit.  Actually it's the sort of life that I associate more with my own generation than his-ie he didn't find employment with a company right out of high school (and/or college right after high school) and stick with them for the rest of his life, didn't get married until he was 30, etc.

Lines:
I only grew up with my mom, but what little I've heard about my dad, I'm kind of glad I grew up without him. I get along pretty well with my mom as well. We're both pretty stubborn people, but she more so than I, so when we do butt heads, it's pretty bad, but we both get over it soon enough. Uh, I think the major differences are she likes to gossip WAY much more than I do (with her job and stuff and not going out much, she doesn't really have much else to talk about) and sometimes thinks I'm an idiot because I do things differently than how she would do/does, even though it works for me. That's really the only negative thing I can think of, because if she's mad at me for something it's usually that.

As for age, my mom was 37 when she had me and I think my dad was about 5-10 years younger than her. So growing up, I had the "old parent", but who cares, because she was also one of the "cool moms".

Patrick:
My dad's about to turn 58 this June, and my mom will be 53 in November. My dad works for Pacific Gas and Electric in northern California, and my mom works at the U.S. embassy to Tirana, Albania (assignments switch every 2 to 4 years, hence my constant moving around). My mom secretly hates all men (anything else need saying there?). My dad's a perfectionist and a control freak. These are the reasons that after I move out, I never want to move back in with either of them ever again.

They're both batshit, but I love them to bits. And they certainly have made my life interesting to live. But then again, there's that Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Who knows.

Edit for a quote from my friend's old band:

MY PARENTS they really suck
MY PARENTS I'm not gonna front
MY PARENTS they really blow
MY PARENTS that's fo sho

Liz:
Both of my parents are pretty average, I guess. My dad grew up on the dairy farm that he inherited, and once my parents got married my mom moved out to the farm and they did that for a while. Six years ago we sold all our cattle, so they both had to find new jobs, so now my dad works construction and my mom works in the bank she worked at before getting married. We've never been particularily well-off in any way, but they both do their best help us out now that we (my siblings and I) are in college.

I've always been a heck of a lot closer to my mother than my father. She has a pretty short temper and would be the one to do the yelling when they felt it necessary, but she also has a pretty quirky side that my sister and I brought out in her while we were growing up, and still do today.  My dad is much, much more mellow than my mom. I can't recall him ever yelling, since he's pretty laid back overall. We just never had much in common.

What I really love is that my parents were set up on a blind date. One of my dad's high school classmates worked at the same bank as my mom in the days before they were married, and she got them to go on a date. Nine months later they were engaged, the next spring they were married, and two years later my sister was born. 2006 was their 25th anniversary! Hooray!

jimbunny:
Fairly average, middle class, both of Dutch descent.

Explains me, I guess.

No, really. I can't think of any decision they've ever made that would qualify them as "weird" or even "bad" parents. And to me, at 20, I'm pretty OK with that. Good job, my parents.

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