Alex and Kitty Taylor

[mizarchivist]

Those are the names of my parents' alter egos.

They're getting a black pug and my dad just bought a Z3 on Ebay.
"Alex's" new car"

My mother claims that these major derivations in behavior is in fact a good thing and will be the guide I can use when I want to reinvent myself when I'm middle-aged.

I should have seen it coming long ago when my father started in on hawaiian shirts, drinking Starbucks frilly coffee drinks, and donning the metaphorical plaid blazer to work.

My being horrified is really just a front. I'm glad that they're enjoying themselves- I just know that there's no way in hell their 30-something selves would recognise their 50-something selves.

Pity that Dad just visited. I want to check out that car and see how it handles [big grin]

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Utterly Speechless...

[samuraizergling.livejournal.com]

Absolutely Speechless.

Kitty?!?

Yee-yikes!

SZ

Alex and Kitty Taylor

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

Mark's dad retired from 30 years at GE and went to massage therapy school, he now works at a salon . Mark's mom helps gay couple adopt thru their church. They drive around traveling in a volkswagon campervan, and Mark is annoyed that they were never this cool when he was a kid. My mother pointed out that it wasn't like they had the knowledge or opportunity growing up in the 50's in South Dakote to be cool.

[mizarchivist]

SZ: Dunno why mom picked the alter-ego name of Kitty- it was after Dad picked his- she wanted something fru fru and goofy. Don't worry. Nobody really uses it, only in ref. to stuff like this.

I think my parents were relatively cool even when growing up- I didn't suffer quite the pangs of embarrassment that many of my peers did. I just wish that mom would have lightened up on the food restrictions sooner. It wasn't til they hosted exchange students that soda and other junky food was a more regular thing in the cupboards- in other words, after I was long gone.