Tuesday, March 24, 2009

My Mom Thinks I'm a Cat......ch.

So,
I go home today because I had a doctors appointment in columbia and I see my mom.  She asks me if she has shown me her pop-up book.  I immediately knew that the pop-up book was about sex, and I sure as balls didn't want to see it.  I don't know why I knew it was about sex.  I think that it was because if my mom thinks that a pop-up book is funny, it probably isn't some G-rated pop-up book with dinosaurs or children playing softball or penguins ice-skating or something.  I look at her and tell her, "Mom, I don't want to see the pop-up book."  She grabs it.  She implores me to look.  She opens it and laughingly says, "Rebecca and I were cracking up last night over this." Rebecca is my 15 year old sister.  I say, "Mom, I do not want to see this pop-up book, and furthermore, I think its totally weird that you would look at this with Rebecca."  She opens the book and a cardboard man and woman making love in the missionary position..popped up.  She cracked up.  I did not.  I say again, but this time in a more serious and more confusedly ridiculous tone, "Mom, I am not looking at this.  I am not looking at this.  I am not looking at this." "Just look at this one, Dad thought this one was hilarious."  Dad is my 56 year-old Dad.  I accidently dart a glance and it is a pop-up depiction of a woman in a nurses uniform having strap on relations with a man leaning over a table in a kitchen.  My mom laughs harder.  I say, "mom this is fucking gross I don't want to look at this.  I don't want to look at this. I don't want to look at this."  I repeat.  She pulls what looked like a cardboard tab at the bottom of one of the pages and says, "look at how this one moves".  I didn't look.  The whole thing about this situation, if you're still with me.  The real kicker.  Is that I knew.  As soon as she said "pop-up book".  That the fucking book.  Was about sex.  However.  I don't know what's weirder.  That my mom possesses this book.  Or that I knew all along. Or that I looked at pop-up sex vignettes with my mom.  Who was wearing a medical procedure mask.  Because our house was being painted and she didn't want to inhale fumes.  

1 comment:

  1. could it had been more awkward?
    anyway it was so funny to read, sure as funny as your mom finds that book ;)

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