what does it mean when your mother calls, asks you for your email address (she has it in her contacts) and you tell her it’s my initials, my birth date @whatever.com and she gets it wrong!
she repeated it back to me and gave me the wrong answer and i’m like “mom, how can you get this wrong?”
i thought i was giving her an easy-to-remember formula and i get the pregnant pause like i just asked her a final jeopardy answer.
just tell me if i were adopted, it would explain so much.
i pride myself on knowing things about my friends and family such as middle names, birthdays, and anniversaries. i like “knowing” people and i like when people know me well enough to remember things about me.
it tells me that you are just as interested in me as i am about you. okay, i don’t remember phone numbers too well unless it’s one i have to memorize, but i know some people well enough to have an entire conversation with just my eyes.
how do you feel about your friends or family remembering facts about you or are we all excused from remembering anything because everything is remembered for us?
i’m calling my mother back later this evening.
hi mom, i have a question for you. what is my birth year, minus the time i was born, divided by four times two? if she gets it wrong, i’ll know for sure she’s hiding something.
with my history, she’ll probably ask which one of “her” kids am i.
