My Mother is Freakin’ Retarded
I had recently sent this movie of John Mayer ‘heck supporting’ his father’s Mac to my mother with the subject line of ’see it’s not just me’. After remote fixing her iMac last nite (her email was set to offline and she didn’t notice) I get this email back from her this morning:
Hey Gar,
Was this movie of you talking to dad a recent one? If so, you seem to have lost some weight.Mom
At first I think my mom might be trying to be funny. But I know my mom. It’s more than likely she’s not and I’m giving her false props. Hell I was called by my sister’s name a few times, which explains quite a little bit about me.
So, I called and explained to her that this was a musician and how could she possibly not know her own child? She told me she even called my father up to see the video and asked him when the conversation took place. His only response was ‘his hair looks darker’.
Never mind that I am not usually followed nor filmed by paps, or that there’s a ‘John, John, I’ve got a question for you…” at the end. To my mother it looked and sounded like me… and “…since you made the subjectline ’see it’s not just me’ I thought you meant it’s not just me with my email problem…”
“Mom, since I wrote the email the ‘me’ was myself, and I was referring to the idea that I’m not the ONLY one who has problems with their parent’s computer prowess…”
I then told her I was going to start a halfway home and send people to her place pretending to be me, and I could claim I’ve visited them “… so if there’s a big black guy at your door one night, that’ll be me.”
My mother then promptly told me that she recently took part in some college memory study, or as she put it “we recently took part in some test at this college for… something or other…”. My father than said they even called my mother back in for a second visit.
I’m going to start sending Mother’s Day cards with random names.
Garry Schafer is ScribeMedia's Director of Interactive Media. His weapons of choice are many fold, but he's quite partial to Flex as he builds out live and on-demand media players and a host of other apps.
Total classic.
You should send your mom a Brittany Spears video next and see if she thinks that’s also you.
Only the days I’m going commando.