List three unusual things about your parents.

[ZombieNixon]

1. My parents had the same last name before they got married
2. They're both self-employed
3. I got a distinct vibe of disappointment off of them when it was established I wasn't gay

:D

Yous?

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Alright

1. They are mammals.

2. They fight ALL the time.

3. The purpose of them is to flip out and kill people.

[GirlinContempt]

23. Oh yeah?!

Well

1. Mine wear eye patches
2. they sail around in giant boats
3. They'll kick your parents ASSES

[EstimatedProphet]

44. My parents are cool; and by cool I mean totally SWEET!

My dad was eating at a diner, and someone dropped a spoon, and he flipped out and killed the whole town!

[RevolutionaryActs]

2. They're *my* parents, do I even need to give a list?

:7

[ZombieNixon]

3. Yes. Yes, you do.

We need to knwo exactly what combination gave rise to you. :P

[RevolutionaryActs]

4. Ummm

Um.... um... I don't know...


My mom is just as obsessed with INXS as I am, that's weird. My dad had an IQ of 165, that's kind of unusual.

Oh fuck I don't... you just have to have to know them. :P

[trof]

5. 1. Divorced when I was 3.

Not so unusual now, but VERY unusual in the south in 1944.

2. My father was (army) Port Commander of port of Pusan, South, Korea during Korean "War".

3. My mother was active campaigner for John Patterson, who became governor of Alabama in 1958. He won and she reaped patronage benefits. Got an insurance contract for state cars and was appointed to state borad of pensions and securities. She sold mutual funds and insurance.

[trof]

6. Why were they disappointed that you weren't gay?

:shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

7. I don't know.

They're extremely liberal (more so that I am even), and can get into the "more liberal than thou" mode pretty easily, so I think that having a gay kid might have served to increase their liberal credentials well. :shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

28. My first girlfriend had parents like that.

She's bi, but mostly dates men. This disappoints her parents greatly. Their other daughter is totally straight, which also disappoints them.

[Nikia]

8. 3 things about my parents

1. They are both the third child of both their parents. My mother is the 3rd of three. My father is the 3rd of 6.
2. My mother has always been more professionally accomplished than my father.
3. They are divorced and each have a child with their 2nd spouse who are in the same grade in school.

[Jara sang]

9. Here goes:

1. They are both from Zeta reticuli

2. They eat live, whole, guinea pigs raw.

3. Dad is something of a stock market genius, he jumped in on the alien/human hybrid futures market back when humans were debating the "ethics" of human cloning and bio-engineering. We got in on the ground floor and have been sitting in the lap of luxury ever since.

[classof56]

10. Okay, here I go...

1. My dad was an angry, bitter man whose life was defined by his insecurities and failures. He lived to be almost 86 and I used to pray he'd have one happy day in his life. He did--his last one on earth. Strange, indeed!

2. My mom hovered between sainthood (for putting up with my dad for 63 years) and martyrdom (for putting up with my dad and her kids who had lots of problems of their own--guess why!). She lived to be 96.

3. Both my parents were God-fearing Christians who practiced their faith just as they lived their lives and raised their children--to the best of their ability given their shortcomings. Guess you can't ask much more than that.

Oh--here's a #4: My parents were damned lucky to have me, their surviving child, take care of them in their declining years. Always wonder if they really plugged into that!

Actually, what I'd really like is to have my two children answer this question. Bet they'd come up with some doozies! :D

Thanks for an interesting Saturday afternoon mental (and emotional) exercise!

Tired Old Cynic

[trof]

12. Ya know, many times I think I was lucky.

To be raised by just one.
He left because he fell in love with another woman.
So much for us.
She loved me and I damn sure knew it.
:-)

[Mutley]

11. 1. My dad had been married twice before;

my mother three times; my stepmother, once; my stepfather, once. (yes, they are all my parents -- either by blood or by deed)

2. My dad is exactly like me. Or I should say -- I am exactly like my dad. In looks, in mannerisms, in everything. It is uncanny. I find myself saying things he used to say nearly every day, and it doesn't even piss me off anymore.

3. They put up with me through a lot of my bullshit. And I really mean a lot.

[mzteris]

13. unusual? hmmm....

1. She was the youngest daughter of a tenant farmer; he the youngest son of a sharecropper. (If you don't know the difference, my mother would be VERY quick to tell you! :) )

2. She was very athletic - a star basketball & softball player (and watched all sports on TV); he was completely indifferent to sports.

3. She was 5'11"; he was 5'8".

oh wait -

4. She graduated Valedictorian of her highschool; he never officially finished 3rd grade. (He retired as a GS-15; she was a "just housewife". Go figure.

[LeftyMom]

14. 1. My father is Catholic and my mother is Wiccan

2. My mother has more tattoos than anybody else I know.
3. Mom is on marrage number four. Dad never remarried.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. Just three...

Well, I'll cover my mother since my dad's dead and I don't know anything too weird about my stepdad.

1. She spent years telling me I was going to hell until it turned out her best friend is a gay priest.
2. She acts normal when she's not on her meds and crazy when she's on them.
3. She doesn't believe the Crusades happened, but she likes "The DaVinci Code."

[Nikia]

16. She might want to get the doctor to switch her meds

My great aunt was pretty much non functional at my grandfather's (her brother's) funeral 2 years ago. I asked my grandmother how she was when I visited. She said that she is completely normal now: doing normal things herself and having intelligent conversations, which she couldn't do before. I asked how she got better. "Well, her husband decided to wean her off her meds."

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Yeah, I know.

She went through a bunch of crap getting off anti-depressants and she became normal. Then, she went back on them as a "safety net" and she's all crazy again. The really annoying part is when she's on them, she thinks everyone else needs to be on them. So she wants me to see a psychiatrist even though I feel fine. She's never seen any therapist before. Her physician prescribes whatever she asks for. He even wrote me out a prescription for them too because she asked him too.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. Hmmmm....

1. My mom met my dad because her sister was married to his brother. Their(my aunt and uncle's) son Mike is my double cousin.
2. My dad passed away in 1996.
3. My parents aren't that interesting.

[bettyellen]

27. i have double cousins too. genetically as close as siblings.

but my parents knew each other before my aunt and uncle.

[xmas74]

40. I also have a double cousin.

He's ten years younger than me almost to the day. He had an older sister who died at two weeks.

[mzteris]

35. My dad's brother

was married to my mom's sister.

Two other brother's in my dad's family were married to two other sisters in another family.

I remember some teacher telling me that a "double first cousin" was as genetically close as you could get unless you were siblings.....

[Orsino]

18. My dad was carried off in a tornado during the Depression.

He has written books.
My mom published her own book, which helped make her a (state) Poet Laureate.

[Onlooker]

20. Three things

(1) They met at a Communist Party dance
(2) They eloped
(3) They're still in love after 60 years

[Aristus]

21. Mine:

1. My father is descended from a man who signed the Articles of Secession for the State of Georgia, and his daughter, who was one of Margaret Mitchell's inspirations for Scarlett O'Hara.
2. As a U.S. Army medical officer, my father has travelled to many countries and served in the Vietnam War, in The U.S.'s neutral medical mission to Jordan during the Black September trouble there in 1970, and witnessed the depredations of Jomo Kenyatta's civil strife in Africa.
3. My mother graduated from LBJ's alma mater, Southwest Texas State University, and marched with their band in JFK's inauguration.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

22. Maybe not unusual, but...

1) They've been married for 34 years.
2) They're both foreign-born (India).
3) Their personalities are very different, and I seem to have inherited both of them.

:D

[BlackVelvetElvis]

24. Mine.

My mother was quite a beauty when she was young. A man crashed his car into a pole staring at her. It embarrased her.
My father ate possum on a regular basis when he was a child. And not on the fancy eatin' table either.
My father took milk from his pet goat to school everyday. Hence his nickname "Goat".

[JohnKleeb]

25. Ok

1, They're both the youngest in their family, my dad the youngest of six and my dad the youngest of two.

2. They met through a friend of my dad's while they worked at a restaurant.

3. Supposely my dad knew my grandfather before he knew my mom because he worked as a bricklayer in the mid 70's for a construction company and my grandfather was the foreman.

[NNadir]

26. My mother's sister's husband was my father's cousin.

(No, this is not an incest thing if you work through it.)

My father did not finish the 8th grade, but most people were impressed with his breadth of knowledge, excepting a real block against any mathematics. My mother did not finish tenth grade, but had a better working knowledge of US history and government than most of the people I know today.

My mother's family and my father's family disapproved of each other, but my mother and father were fiercely in love until my mother died.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

29. To be fair...three things about my dad.

1. He liked to cook and make flower arrangements.
2. He was a street fighter, bouncer, and weed dealer until my mom got pregnant with me.
3. I look and act just like my dad.

[skygazer]

30. Sure, I'll play

1. My mother was the Catholic daughter of Italian immigrants; my father is Protestant the descendant of New England puritans who settled here in 1630.

2. My father is on his fifth marriage - he had one prior to my mom and after her death has had 3 more.

3. My parents were mostly typical 50's type parents but they did not spank their children.

[u4ic]

31. Hmmm...

1. My mother had her last child at 45 (me)
2. Both did not make it past 6th grade
3. My father was wide awake during his appendix operation because he was scared of being given ether and never waking up from it. (it was in the late 1940's)

[mzteris]

36. that reminds me.....

my dad's appendix was the "largest on record" at the time - last I heard they still had it in a jar at the local hospital! (I think it was like 12" long or something!)

Supposedly it's why he was "always sickly" as a boy. After the operation, he was very healthy.

[YankeyMCC]

32. 1. Father was a sonar man on the USS Maddox -

he even got a mention, indirectly, by McNamara who later tried to blame the Tonkin Gulf incident on the "nervous sonar personnel"

2. Father used to chew tar/asphalt as a kid

3. Absolutely nothing unusual in my mother's history which itself seems unusual

[greatauntoftriplets]

33. My father was the third son of an undertaker...

and his father died in the flu epidemic of 1918.
My mother was the youngest daughter of immigrants from Luxembourg.
They got married three times....every time to each other.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. Three unusual things about my parents:

1. They're still alive, and in good health ...being in their 80's.

2. They're Republicans......

3. They hate Bush.....and they loved Clinton.

How's that?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

37. Okay, my turn

1. My mother grew up bilingual in German and English and still uses it as a secret language with me and my siblings

2. My father was a conscientious objector in World War II, and his alternative service was participating in Ancel Keyes' medical experiments

3. My parents were temperamentally quite different and didn't really get along, except that they largely agreed on how to raise their children.

[aQuArius]

38. 1) My mom can run a MARATHON at age 60!!!

2) My dad was a staunch Republican until he learned to love himself as an openly gay man!!!
3) Even though they have been divorced for 20 years, they get along better now than they EVER did when they were married!!!

[Momgonepostal]

39. Here are a few of mine:

1. My parents were 16 years apart in age.

2. My father was an eyewitness to the bombing of Pearl Harbor

3. My mother is a retired midwife who once owned a shirt which read "support your local perineum." :silly:

[momophile]

41. 1) similar to your number 1 but a little different,

my parents have the same middle name;
2) my parents got divorced before I was concieved (insert porno music here);
3) my parents got along with their respective in-laws (was'up?).

[Left Is Write]

42. My parents are still married after nearly 47 years.

Is that unusual?

I can't think of anything else.

[Burma Jones]

43. 1. My Parents are Brother and Sister

yes, that makes them my Aunt and Uncle as well. And my Brothers are my Cousins, except for my twin half-brothers with whom I share a Father.

2. My Dad has a Doctorate, my Mom barely made it through High School, and she was the first HS Graduate in her family - I am the first College Graduate on my Mom's side.

3. My Dad grew Reefer while obtaining a TS Clearance(during the Ford Administration) and my Mom was a Prescription Drug Abuser while holding down a clerical position with access to sensitive information at NASA.

My Parents were married in 1959, SHORTLY before I was born (according to my Mom, I had been conceived in a dark corner of a Bar during operating hours).....

My Dad's parents were divorced in 1964. My Mom's Dad died in 1966. My Dad's Dad married my Mom's Mom in 1970, this made my parents step siblings.

My parents divorced in 1977, this was made a bit more complicated due to them being siblings.....

When my Dad's Dad died in 1986, he spoke his final words to his Step-Daughter/Former Daughter in Law and Eldest Son's Ex-Wife

My maternal Grandmother, a FIERCE Bush Hater, just celebrated her 99th Birthday in Union City, TN. When she passes away she will be interred between her two husbands, my Two Grandfathers.....