aruan | i love moms, or top five ways to discern their matchmaking hopes

1. they greet you at the door with food and drink, insist that you sit and stay, and proceed to chat you up on all your thoughts, politics, school, and taste in desserts.
2. they derogatorily bring up ex Significant Others in their son's/daughter's past.
3. they insinuate that their son/daughter could learn/benefit much from your own "level-headed wisdom" and hopes that you'll spend time together in which to do plenty so.
4. they chastise their own son's/daughter's personal hygene and dress habits in front of you.
5. they compare their son/daughter to you and either point out similarities, comment on how fortunate it is that you two have become/are still friends, and say something flattering about you that makes you blush, their son/daughter to give him/her an accusatory/embarrassed look as he/she promptly excuses him/herself from the room on some "urgent" business.

sometimes the circular path is way much more fun than the straight-up version of events. i remain, even 2 hours later, completely amused.