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05 April 2007

Crazy ideas that your mom’s told you? →[More:]My mom wants to move to the Maldives and take up a job as a teacher there, which she read in an ad in the paper last week, or would like to see me pursue it at least.
She wants to buy a bungalow next to the beach, and wants us to earn as much money as we can, and then come back to Hyderabad (for god knows what reason).
When I asked her what we’d do about Dad, she said we’d leave him with one of my sisters, since he wouldn’t like to go to such a beautiful country anyway.

post by: hadjiboy at: 10:48 | 14 comments

I dunno, that sounds like a pretty fun plan. If it doesn't work, hey, that's life.

posted by cmonkey 05 April | 10:53

Just last night I watched a global warming news program and the Maldives was one of the places that's in big, big trouble. At it's highest point it's only 2 metres above sea level and the consensus is that it will be under water within the century. So, ya, crazy idea.

posted by chococat 05 April | 11:00

My mom is one big crazy idea. I'm sure she has wanted to run off and do everything from pirate the grecian isles to become a road scholar and beat poet. But that's why I love her.

posted by youngergirl44 05 April | 11:11

Your mom wants to run off with you to a tropical island and leave your father behind? When's that next therapy session?

posted by Pips 05 April | 11:11

My mom, not so much, but my nutty immigrant grandmother told my then-pregnacious sister that she shouldn't look at any ugly baby since that would make the baby ugly, and not to wear a necklace while pregnant since then the baby would come out wrapped in the umbillical cord. Freakily enough, the baby was wrapped in the cord and had to be delivered by cesarean.

*twilight zone music*

posted by jonmc 05 April | 11:18

Heh, it'll take more than Global Warming to stop my Mom.:)

Pips, it's tomorrow, and my mom is planning to tag along; she's thinking of following up on her Masters Degree, and becoming a (horror of horrors, although I'm not the right one to jugde)--Clinical Psychologist, and would like some more information from my therapist about it.

posted by hadjiboy 05 April | 11:18

I think my Mom's undoing has been not enough crazy ideas.

posted by scarabic 05 April | 11:23

Clinical psychologist? Well, as long as you're not her patient. : )

Could be worse... my birth mom, bless her heart, once auditioned for a strip club at the age of fifty (and she was not, I'm afraid, in "Cher shape"; more like Big Bird). To their credit, she said the club owners were very polite. (It's a scene in the novel I've been trying to write for like, forever.)

posted by Pips 05 April | 11:50

I admire your mom's initiative, but yeesh, tagging along? I'd suggest she contact the pysch separately, or just pick a few at random from the phone book and talk to them -- I wouldn't want anybody in my life talking to my my counselor in "bleed-over" scenarios like that.

My mom's crazy idea was to be a burlesque stripper. Heh.

posted by PaxDigita 05 April | 11:59

I find it telling that all the crazy ideas I can think of from my mom have to do with parenting/suggestions for me, and nothing about what she might have schemed up for herself. And she wasn't even a meddler or an over-parenter. Good for the crazy ideas for themselves Moms.

posted by rainbaby 05 April | 12:56

While my mom was in town taking care of me after jaw surgery, she had Fox News on CONSTANTLY (which is a pretty dirty trick to play on your ultra-progressive daughter whose jaw's been wired shut). When I finally managed to indicate (via written notes and bugged out eyes) that I'd like to have the channel changed, PLEASE, she turned to me and deadpanned, "I don't understand the problem. It even SAYS RIGHT THERE that they're Fair and Balanced."

posted by scody 05 April | 13:20

She said that if I made "that" face too many times, it'd stick that way.

Oh, wait...

posted by deborah 05 April | 19:28

That oleanders would kill me if I smelled them.

posted by brujita 05 April | 23:22

That if you eat a poison-ivy sandwich you'd become immune. She claimed her brother did this. Oh, sure, he swelled up like a dead groundhog in the July sun in the desert, couldn't see, and itched like hell, but he never got poison ivy again! :^p

posted by redvixen 06 April | 18:36

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