Empty Nests and Preachers’ Kids
A friend’s daughter, who is leaving for college this summer recently received notification that she’d been assigned a roommate in the dorms. The only information the school sent was the girl’s name, address, and phone number. So my friend’s daughter called the girl to introduce herself.
Well, not right away. That would’ve been too easy.
First, the detective duo tried to find the girl on Facebook, but she wasn’t there. Then they looked up the area code, which was somewhere in the Texas panhandle. This led to my friend concocting a scenario in which this roommate was from some really small town, which does not have internet access, and even if they did her very religious parents would not allow her to go anywhere near the worldly cesspool that is Facebook.
You think I have an imagination?
Then my friend, Sherlock, reverse look-ups the phone number. And sure enough, it goes to the something-something-Methodist Parsonage. Parsonage! So at this point in her telling me the story I have to suck back all the smart remarks I’ve been making and just sit in amazement at her Wichay-Woman-psychic powers, which I already knew about, but have been once again validated. I also have to wonder what she’s going through, on account of her daughter will be kickin’ it up in the dorms Preacher’s Kid style.
The daughter was beside herself.
“Oh no. This is going to be awful. I’m gonna be all ‘let’s go out and party’ and she’s gonna be all ‘let’s stay home and pray’.”
My friend smiled and told her daughter that she probably had nothing to worry about.
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by Lela Davidson on July 3, 2009
in Uncategorized, motherhood
Are you kidding me? Your friend’s daughter will have a hard time keeping up. She’ll be “let’s go party” and her roommate will be “hey, did you know that you can have sex with twelve guys in one night if they don’t mind waiting in the bathroom until it’s their turn?”
I myself am a religious prude from way back. But I’ve got sisters…
That was probably your point, huh? I need to be more alert before commenting on blog posts. Sorry for the interruption. Please, continue…
Oh you are bad…..