My folks got back from their trip last night and I almost perfected my often-lacking airport pick-up skills.
I seem to have inherited my Mom’s ability to be completely prepared to leave at the proper time to get there just a bit early to ensure maximum excitement while waiting at the Arrivals gate. On the downside, I have also inherited her terrible luck of calling that last time to make sure the flight is arriving as planned only to hear an automated voice ruin her life by saying, “Flight 275 landed early and your spouse is waiting for you while increasingly hating your guts”.
Needless to say she and I have both sped to the airport on numerous occasions.
Not THIS time though! I was there twenty minutes before it was scheduled to arrive and I enjoyed a magazine and juice knowing that I would be there to greet the parentals with a smile as they walked through the sliding doors.
Waiting waiting waiting waiting. A flight arrives. No parents. Waiting waiting waiting waiting.
Oddly enough, I run into a neighbour and we chat about how funny it is that we’re both picking someone up at the same time. He’s all, yeah, my sister is coming home from Portugal so I’ll be over at the International Arrivals.
Say what?
And there they were, my lovely parents, waiting for me as everyone expected they would.
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My parents can’t work the DVD/VCR anymore. They never let me have any kind of gaming console so there’s no way they are buying themselves one. One of these days, though, my parents will spend money (that used to go toward my tuition) on a nice, big TV. The lame polka show they watch on Saturday nights will be bigger and more horrifying than ever. *sigh*
I like Activia. You should try taking fiber pills to help things along.
Heather: I’m with you!! I LOVE those ads!
Who’s a dork?! Blasphemy!
it’s so sad that our parents are cooler than us.
Mine got a whole blog post about it (read back if you’re so inclined).
They put me to shame over and over again.
*sigh*
my parents just got internet…wireless no less!
My mom and dad are pretty useless with technology. It’s a struggle just to get a photo taken by my mother.
“No, you have to keep the button down. *pause* Did it take the picture?”
“I think it’s broken.”
Oh and my dad once asked me if this is where you switch on the computer *clicks mouse madly*
Yeah, I know.
Your parents rock, they bought the TV I really want. You, as a parent, also rock. So many underestimate the value of a seatbelt on a dog. My mother is not allowed to watch my dogs while I am out of town because she refuses to use them. No safety for my kidlets? No babysitting privileges for you Mom. Sorry, someone has to be the adult.
Being old rocks the party (I imagine) because you’re old you don’t have to worry about propriety – Like when someone asks “How are you?” you can say “Effin old you SOB, now go play in the sand while I drive my mid-life crisis Porche in search of younger more verile partners.” – this automatically makes old people cooler than us. Bummer.
And Yoghurt makes you poop?! This explains a lot.
I guess that means your parents don’t have any trouble pooping!
Can we go back to having ANTM nights with P&P? I miss them and their coolness!
Wait, just read your dad's comment – can we have Fraggle Rock nights chez Boudreau's?!?!
I hope you asked if the Wii was a post-move-in house-warming gift for you.
Oh man, that’s hilarious. Let me guess…activia?
That’s awesome, your parents should have a Wii party and invite their friends. Hilarious.
LOL my Mom is way cooler then me too. She listens to Z100 (NYC’s biggest Top 40 station) in the morning. SOmetimes we’ll be together and a song will come on and I’ll go “I’ve never heard this song” and she’ll go. “oh it’s Panic At the Disco. They’re big right now.”
Luckily my Dad doesn’t know any music or movies made after 1972.
Hahaha!! That’s just too awesome!
You won’t believe it – I just got to check out the very first episode of the Fraggles on the new TV!
Without a doubt the trash heap continues to represent the best repository of our true inner wisdom – and the mirroring of “The Beast” in both Sproket the dog and the Gorgs as preventing us in an irrational way from making the necessary connections with our internal wisdom and our external true perception of reality is to die for.
As when we first watched it together (you in diapers on my lap chewing on your brothers toes) I am still trying to figure out if Gobo better symbolizes the Id or the Ego (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego,_and_super-ego)?
Either way – the show is still fabulous – and the songs are great.
Love Dad (of questionable age)
Is this Activia thing for real? One my my good friends works at Glow (Canada’s leading health and beauty magazine!) and according to the MDs she spoke with, the acid in your stomach kills the probiotics before they can do anything…?
Wow, way to miss the point of the post, Aine…
Strange. My dad and his fiance bought a Wii and a flat screen TV, too. So did my aunt and uncle.
I’m right there with you at 50.
oh man..my Dad is listening to Maroon 5 and Sara Bareilles while I’m listening to Fleetwood Mac and John Denver. It’s ok, maybe retro-aging is genetic!
And Activia? love that stuff. If yogurt is going to help me get a flatter midsection, I’m eating it three meals a day. Gewwww but so true:)
Reminds me of my parents who, when we were both in Europe, stayed out until 4:30AM at a jazz club in Paris while I was in bed before midnight in Barcelona. Sigh.
Oh I know the feeling. I want to be a kid again.
Your parents are amazing.
Well, my grandpa is 70 and he just bought himself a TV and an air conditioning. The Wii is yet to come.
LOL too funny.
This is what happens when the kids are all grown and out of the house. You actually start to enjoy life again. Or so I’ve been told.
I say you make a trade off: the poopie yogurt for the Wii. Fair, right?
Yup, your parents are awesome!!!
The title question was rhetorical, I’m assuming???
Never mind, we still love you, 50 or not!!!