My folks have been here for a week. God knows I love 'em... but I have come to the end of wanting them here -- for now anyways. I hate to seem holier-than-thou.... but they seem so much like people who've never been anywhere or seen anything. Country bumpkins. Hicks. It was nice though, that it doesn't take much to impress them. For example: Braums.
Do you know Braums? If not, please, for the love of all that is holy and sacred... if you are ever in the South Central Plains... GO THERE! It's like Burger King meets Dairy Queen and produces Baby Carrot-Stick! Daddy insisted that we go there for ice cream sundaes. I love their limeades (trust me if you've not had one... a regional TREAT!).. Mom is on a diet and said she'd be "bad" with us. Yay Mom. Thanks. So they marveled at any and everything in our path. They scorn learned-ness... and multisyllabic words.
Apparently I'm the pride of the family... and similarly, the bain of their collective existences, since I have one undergraduate degree and am proceeding to attempt another one. One second, Mom tells me to take a minute and enjoy life... kick up my heels. The next, she's admonishing that I not get a big head about things... that I take some time and think about someone other than myself. Know what? I think she's as messed up as I feel right now, only she refuses to admit it.
Tomorrow, they are leaving. I'll miss them horribly.
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