Well, that was unexpected....
Sep. 3rd, 2010 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalCalled home to inform parental units that I would be out of town this weekend, and expecting them to freak out about the Discover bomber when they found out where I was going.
Instead I immediately got an earful (before even telling my plans) about whether I had fresh water, food, batteries, flashlights etc. I can't seem to get my mother to understand the intricacies of the east coast and how it is entirely possible for a storm that harrasses NC to barely drop rain on the DC-Jersey area on its way to Rhode Island and beyond.
Also, she thinks the National Weather Service forecast page must be complete voodoo or entirely out of date compared to what she sees on local and national news (no cable, so its not like she's watching the weather channel).
*face palm* I've begged my father to install some sort of V-chip to prevent her from getting odd info about the east coast.
Of course, after I finally calm her down about the trip and weather courtesy of the Weather Channel, she launches into "well everywhere on the east coast has bedbugs, and have you heard about the super lice?"
*bangs head* I've already had close encounters with bed bugs, and the current bed bug situation is exactly why I'm not itching to go to NYC under any circumstances in the forseeable future. But as someone who has to travel for work, including 3 internatinoal trips in the first six months of 2011, can we please attempt to not make me constantly paranoid every time I set foot out of the house? Please?
Seriously, with all this crap I don't know how she expects me to live up to her birthday card message from this year: May you find the same happiness in your personal life as you've found professionally
*rolls eyes*
Instead I immediately got an earful (before even telling my plans) about whether I had fresh water, food, batteries, flashlights etc. I can't seem to get my mother to understand the intricacies of the east coast and how it is entirely possible for a storm that harrasses NC to barely drop rain on the DC-Jersey area on its way to Rhode Island and beyond.
Also, she thinks the National Weather Service forecast page must be complete voodoo or entirely out of date compared to what she sees on local and national news (no cable, so its not like she's watching the weather channel).
*face palm* I've begged my father to install some sort of V-chip to prevent her from getting odd info about the east coast.
Of course, after I finally calm her down about the trip and weather courtesy of the Weather Channel, she launches into "well everywhere on the east coast has bedbugs, and have you heard about the super lice?"
*bangs head* I've already had close encounters with bed bugs, and the current bed bug situation is exactly why I'm not itching to go to NYC under any circumstances in the forseeable future. But as someone who has to travel for work, including 3 internatinoal trips in the first six months of 2011, can we please attempt to not make me constantly paranoid every time I set foot out of the house? Please?
Seriously, with all this crap I don't know how she expects me to live up to her birthday card message from this year: May you find the same happiness in your personal life as you've found professionally
*rolls eyes*
