Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social Subject: Re: Meeting the Parents Message-ID: <10110@watmath.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 23:07:02 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.10110 Posted: Sun Dec 2 23:07:02 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 06:44:36 EST References: <614@pucc-k>, <519@cbosgd.UUCP> <3303@rabbit.UUCP> <1100@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 31 > How can you possibly justify more concern over insulting your SO than > you show towards insulting your parents? After all your SO could leave > you tomorrow, but parents (if they are good ones) will always be there > for you. > > Judy The key word here is "if they are good ones". There are times when parents are wrong and your so deserves more respect than them even if he might leave you any time. One of the things my parents used to do (same parents I mentioned a while back who are so happy to wake people up) was to phone me at my so's place when we were sleeping ~8 in the morning even though they knew very well we'd be sleeping and they would be waking up not only me, but him and his roommate as well. In most instances what they had to say could have waited a few more hours very easily. Well, I asked my parents a few times not to do this as people in the household didn't like it, but they kept on doing it, and even complained a few times because my so wasn't being very talkative when they woke him up. I told them that that was because he was asleep and didn't like being woken up. To this they just laughed saying something derogatory about today's youth, and how it needs to be shaped up. Well, with all due respect to my parents, and even though this particular so is no longer my so, I still believe that my parents were being rude, and that he had every right in the world not to want to be woken up by my parents in his own apartment. Sophie Quigley ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley