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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social
Subject: Re: Meeting the Parents
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Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 23:07:02 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  2 23:07:02 1984
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>  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
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