4.21.02 – sunday breakfast with my parents

[context: we’re talking about how each generation tries to find a new fashion statement that will horrify its parents. e.g. bell bottoms and mini skirts, tattoos and facial piecings, and so on]

mom: “the one thing that every generation has in common is that it thinks that it invented sex.”

me: “uh huh.”

mom: “i mean, no one likes to think about their parents doing that. i mean, eww. one time i opened a cupboard at my parents’ house and…”

me: “can we stop talking about this?”