Books you really don't expect your 84 year old mother to have read...

[jeriendhal]

Mom: I finished reading Fifty Shades of Gray.

Me: You... what?

Mom: Well my friend had given me the second book so I wanted to read the first one.

Me: (Brain reboots) I'm a little surprised you'd enjoy something like that.

Mom: Well it's not like there was anything in there I didn't know about already.

Me: ...

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I think my weird side is genetic.

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[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

*headtilt* My youngest surviving grandparent is 85.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I'm forty-three myself, and Mom got pregnant with me when she was 40.

Well, at first she just thought I was a really persistent case of the flu...

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. XD

But, yeah, that makes a difference. My (maternal) grandmother, my mother, and me were born in 1922, '52 and '82, respectively. (Grandma died in 1996 or so.)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

My immediate family has some odd gaps to it. My eldest sister (by Mom's first husband, who abandoned her while she was pregnant) is 58. Mom married my dad who was eight years or so older than her, and they produced my younger sister ten years before I was born. So I did have more than one incident where my parents were mistaken for my grandparents.

[aldersprig.livejournal.com]

My grandfather and great-grandfather were born in the same year

/helpful/

I have stories like that: my mother, changing my car's oil, got snow-melt with road salt in her nose. Saintly mother: "that's worse than snorting coke!"

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

1) Your 84-year-old mother is a lot hipper than my 88-year-old mother -- who was appalled by The Valley of Horses, okay?

2) Your family's even more spread out than mine (I'm about halfway between my three older sisters' generation and that of my six nieces and nephews -- maybe three or four years closer to my sisters in age, but that's it).

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I was appalled by The Valley of the Horses. How did something that badly written get on the bestseller lists. ;p

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I should have said she was appalled by the sex in The Valley of Horses. I don't know how she felt about the rest of the book, as her oblique comments never got past the subject of the sex [wry g].

[(Anonymous)]

My sweet ladylike schoolteacher mother, born in 1907, who looked like Helen Hayes playing Queen Elizabeth, commenting on a pro-abortion rally:

"Well, it's no business of a bunch of nine impotent old men."

/bemused leftist here/

[pomegranate56.livejournal.com]

The thing about anyone's mom is, there's a whole person there, not just the part her children think of as Mom. :)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

True enough. It was worse with my dad though. Towards the end of his life he talked about all the things he'd done (OSS radioman during WWII, FCC investigator flying on a Navy blimp looking for illegal radio stations in Baja, among other things). I was like, "Why didn't you tell me this stuff when I was eight?"