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What are/were your parents like?
calenlass:
My dad is actually my step-dad. He is the IT guy for Delta's IT department. My mom paints; once she actually sold a painting, so that she could call herself a professional artist. I have found that compared to my peers' parents they are both relatively young, even though they aren't really.
A Wet Helmet:
I have one living Grandparent left, and that's my maternal grandfather.
He's going to turn 86 this year, and to this day if the weather is warm enough, you'll find him riding his jet-ski every weekend.
If the weather isn't warm enough, he's still going to go up to his cabin at the lake and hang out. He'll probably lay around on the couch reading all day. If there is work to be done, however, he's going to do it, even though he had a pacemaker put in a few years ago. If you don't like it... you can just fuck off. That's his attitude. The man survived WWII, Korea, a triple bypass in '76, they yanked an aneurysm the size of a grapefruit out of his aorta in 88 or 89, he's been in congestive heart failure twice, and he keeps on going. The doctors finally made him stop working just a few years ago after getting his pacemaker, because at age 81 or 82 the man was still working on his feet 50 hours a week.
He's slowed down a lot lately and it absolutely devastates me to see him now. When I was little I used to watch him drink scotch at 7 a.m., blow smoke rings from unfiltered cigarettes (not that I'm advocating either functional alcoholism or tobacco use, but it was the '70s and more acceptable then. He's since given up both vices) and do unbelievable amounts of physical labor every day, usually in the hot-sun. He was tough as nails, can make, build or fix anything (believe me, I've seen some crazy shit come out of his garage) and is absolutely the funniest person I've met in my entire life. To keep himself busy these days, he drives other old folks around, because hey... he still drives and lives by himself. He only ever really got mad at me one time too, when I was 14 and sunk a boat. Yeah, you read that right... I sunk a boat. I'd say he had pretty good reason to be pissed.
That's who I want to be when I grow up. Just like my Grandfather.
Darkbluerabbit:
--- Quote from: blaha 41 on 31 Mar 2008, 23:52 ---A few things that my parents taught me:
- It's never ok to get fat/lazy/ or stupid.
- If a girl has to ask a guy out first, then the guy really isn't all that into the girl.
- The guy should be older than the girl.
- no matter how rich you are, never buy anything that's not on sale.
--- End quote ---
I don't know if you consider that to be truth, or just something your parents told you, because I have to disagree. My mom is two years older than my dad, and my parents have one of the most successful relationships I've ever observed. They obviously still love each other and are a great pair. I have no idea how I wound up so cynical about relationships, because it certainly wasn't from their example.
They met while working on a magazine, my mom was in the journalism department and my dad was in graphics. My mom moved to my hometown because she was engaged to some other guy, but she says that she "decided she liked my dad better" whatever that means. I haven't gotten the full story yet. They had me when my mom was 26, and my brother a little less than two years later. My mom went back to work after me, but became a stay-at-home mom after my brother was born. They had my sister four years later, and once she was in school my mom got a job at the library.
My mom is a very kind person, and I can usually tell her anything. She reads a lot, as you'd expect from a librarian. I connect more with my mom, but I have more in common with my dad. We're both kind of reserved when it comes to emotions, have similar senses of humor, and are both into music and photography. My dad does pre-press color correction for a catalogue. I think he really wants me to get into graphics too, because at least 50% of our conversations revolve around Photoshop.
I completely accept the fact that I am my parent's child. I can trace most of my major personality traits and interests to one or both of them. They gave me a lot of the values I hold today, for example, we always had pets, and I was raised to love animals as members of the family. Last year they got involved with a collie rescue group and have been fostering dogs until the group finds a permanent home for them.
While they promoted certain core values, they never pushed anything on us. I never even knew that my parents were politically inclined until I started voicing opinions that I'd formed for myself.
I clashed with them a bit as a teen, but nothing out of the ordinary. I had a pretty good relationship with them even before I left high school, and I haven't fought with either of them since I was sixteen.
I'm pretty lucky to have parents that are genuinely cool people who I respect a great deal as individuals, not just as the people I came from. My parents are also training to run the 1st annual Lake Wobegon Marathon, which is just awesome.
Hairy Joe Bob:
OMG MY PARENTS DON'T UNDERSTAND ME
They are so lame! They don't get my feelings why are they so STOOPID!
tania:
--- Quote from: blaha 41 on 31 Mar 2008, 23:52 ---If a girl has to ask a guy out first, then the guy really isn't all that into the girl.
--- End quote ---
i understand your parents grew up in a different generation but i kind of hope you don't believe this one either.
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