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What did you send your mother for mother's day?; Both our parents are extremely homophobic!
Topic Started: May 4 2013, 07:17 AM (210 Views)
Erna
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They warned us about the Hershey Highway but, sadly, we were too young, drunk, and stupid to pay attentia.

Now it is too late, alas.

(On the other hand, the Hershey Highway has helped to make us a wealthy woman!)

Discuss!
Edited by Erna, May 4 2013, 09:43 AM.
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Tybee
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Sadly my mother is dead 21 years now, but when she was alive I always sent her a dozen pink roses (her favorite) on mother's day.
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And also, Mother's Day isn't until next Sunday.

I will graciously make a courtesy call, and she will ramble on about herself for an hour and not ask about me at all.

Yay.
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Anthrax.
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I didn't send her shit, because 1) I haven't seen her in decades and don't know where she is, and 2) she's a cunt.
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BenZ

MPC, your parents must be over 100. Are they both still alive?
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Tybee
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Hasn't MPC said his mother is in her mid 90's?
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May 4 2013, 07:53 AM
I will graciously make a courtesy call, and she will ramble on about herself for an hour and not ask about me at all.
Sorry to hear that. But it explains a lot.

I will made my pilgrimage to my parents' to cook a fancy dinner to celebrate. It seems that this has become an inadvertent tradition. But it's a nice way to spend time with them -- and also see some friends from high school.
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I used to steal wildflowers from the park early in the morning & make a beautiful bouquet in an old olive oil bottle with a scrap of ribbon tied around its neck, then leave it on the porch before dawn with a nice card (preferably cute pictures of cats). She & my dad always loved it -- they grew up during the Depression & appreciated the idea of using leftovers to make something good. Now she's gone, I just admire the flowers in the park during my walk & think of her fondly.
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May 4 2013, 03:27 PM
I used to steal wildflowers from the park early in the morning & make a beautiful bouquet in an old olive oil bottle with a scrap of ribbon tied around its neck, then leave it on the porch before dawn with a nice card (preferably cute pictures of cats). She & my dad always loved it -- they grew up during the Depression & appreciated the idea of using leftovers to make something good. Now she's gone, I just admire the flowers in the park during my walk & think of her fondly.
Are you--by any chance--a Fannie Flagg novel?
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May 4 2013, 03:27 PM
I used to steal wildflowers from the park early in the morning & make a beautiful bouquet in an old olive oil bottle with a scrap of ribbon tied around its neck, then leave it on the porch before dawn with a nice card (preferably cute pictures of cats). She & my dad always loved it -- they grew up during the Depression & appreciated the idea of using leftovers to make something good. Now she's gone, I just admire the flowers in the park during my walk & think of her fondly.
That's equal parts cheap and sweet.
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The wildflowers from the park story is sweet. Back in the mid 80's a tenant in a rental condo I had was arrested for stealing flowers, but he had much more expensive taste than wildflowers. He would go to a large office park at night where they had beautiful plantings of tulips and various other flowers and apparently wipe out entire beds. He was apparently stealing so many for so long it was costing the park thousands of dollars a month to replace them. They finally caught him one night when they posted a stakeout. I found out by seeing it on the evening news one night as they were hauling him out of a police car in handcuffs. To stay out of jail he had to reimburse the office park for all the flowers he'd stolen and pay a big fine and do community service. He got fired from his job and couldn't make his rental payments on the condo and had to move.

Flowers can be such bitches!
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I think doing something that will make your mother smile is sweet. I do not, however, think stealing flowers from a park is sweet at all. It is cheap and selfish.

People who steal flowers from public places are depriving everyone else of the pleasure of seeing the flowers.

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I agree, #13 -- but I only stole maybe 10 of the 10,000 or more wildflowers growing haphazardly in the park -- plenty left for everyone else to enjoy, including the bees & the bums.

I rationalized it in two ways. First, I was too broke to buy from a florist & she really loved flowers. Second, she was very ill for many years & could no longer visit the park, which had been one of her favorite walks in better days -- so I was taking the park to her. Mawkish, but true.
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We sent our mother a box of her favorite very expensive chocolates.
Edited by Erna, May 5 2013, 03:24 AM.
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MrsPatrickCampbell
May 4 2013, 04:48 PM
We sent our mother a box of very expensive chocolates.
Hunty, your mother is already in a box.
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MrsPatrickCampbell
May 4 2013, 04:48 PM
We sent our mother a box of very expensive chocolates.
Don't tell me, your mother is a diabetic and you told her the chocolates were sugar free.
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