"hey, are you ready to go?"
"yeah, sure. oh, by the way, my parents said that, if you want, you can stay for dinner tonight."
and so it began.
i have never had a girlfriend before.
(i blame that fact on the stupid book about kissing dating goodbye, as well as my lack of hygiene. probably more fault goes to the latter.)
since i have never had a girlfriend, i have been fortunate enough to have gone through life without the terror of meeting the girl's parents.
i have been truly blessed by the gods.
that is, until last night.
i wasnt prepared. she sprang it on me just as we were about to go out for an afternoon walk.
they were ready. they-the girl, the parents, the family dog-they have all been through this before. it was clear that they knew what they were doing.
i was an amatuer without practice, going against pros with a home team advantage.
i was beyond scared.
i've seen the movies. i knew the drill. dad would sit in "his chair", stare at me menacingly, and ask about what i want to do with my life.
i would squirm like a frog in a jr. high science lab, and desperately think for satisfactory answers.
but we'd both know that there are no satisfactory answers when one has just quit a comfortable job, and has no future plans other than being a writer.
"a writer!" he would scream. "you expect to support my little girl as a writer! what do you write anyways?
"uh, poetry."
"poetry! POETRY! WHAT KIND OF IDIO....God,...my heart...i'm dying..."
they were going to eat me alive.
we walked in, and the mom rushed over to meet us.
she was nice.
but she wasnt the one i was worried about.
to be continued...
3:00 p.m. - 2003-12-16
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