Meeting the Parents for the First Time

I wrote this as a Comment to TMI Weekly’s latest video, but every time I clicked the button to send it, “it” never got sent. So I thought I’d just post the comments to my blog,

Here’s the link to TMI Weekly – Meeting the Parents

Julia [Allison] had some great ideas for breaking the ice. There’s no better context for humor than introducing someone to your parents, so if you have any humor at all in your eyeballs, you should relish the thought. If I were a father and the guy or girl pulled out index cards, I’d be amused to say the least. And turtle-necks – well that’s just Julia being the Julia we have all come to know and love.

The sure-fire best way to introduce a girl or boy friend is casually, like you did when you were little. Just barge in on mom and dad and say “Hey, this is Julia (or Fred). We’re gonna go play in my room.” Eventually you will become familiar. And the older they get, the easier it gets; when your friend starts to look to them like your Sis or your brother Buzz, they will likely stop caring altogether.

If there must be a formal meeting, without preconditions, then you pretty much have to play it by ear. unless the dad is an Admiral or a General (or just likes to be called Admiral or General) in which case, it’s easy – just sit there and keep your mouth shut, and speak only when spoken to.

In any event honesty is always the best policy, the more kids the merrier, and Bohemian Rhapsody was the last good song ever made.

And never appear overly confident, or they’ll think you are picturing them naked.

[Addendum] I checked back today and my Comment had double-posted. Typical – SNAFU.

Still, it’s a great web-site and I highly recommend it.

~ by dobee on November 25, 2008.