credoconsolans
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- Apr 9, 2005
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- Basic Beliefs
- neopagan leaning toward moral relativism
A little awkward this morning. LOL. Kids said, "yeah but you were a nerd when you were in school, mom." and without thinking I laughed, "no, I was not a nerd." Ooops. "Well, what were you?" What am I supposed to say? I was a stoner? When I was your age I was dealing drugs, skipping school and attending keg parties? Crap, I didn't want to go here... should have just copped to being a nerd.
I wound up saying, "I was one of the ones hanging around." Which got them both cackling with glee, "you were a loiterer!?" Yeah, that's it.
LOL.
Had a family reunion party last night. Was laughing with a cousin who has a child soon to be in college. We were reminiscing about her glory days and then I asked what she was going to tell her daughter how to behave in college, when she herself was a band groupie who got shit-faced drunk and often ended up one of those passed out bodies you see on the floor after the lights go up at an outdoor concert or those party girls who called in sick to work when she was actually still drunk and barely getting hungover at 8 am.
She was thoughtful and said she wasn't sure yet.
I was never curious about what my mom did in her younger years. I should have been. I found out years later she was running off with boyfriends and just up and leaving to cross the country to be with friends in other states to work eventually wandering home and dancing at clubs at all hours.
I am a boring, hobbit like nerd compared to my other family members.