Me: Maybe one day I will visit more of the Southern States
Mom: Your father and I went to New Orleans quite a few years back, you should go there, no train though!
Me: Yes, yes, we know the story of how you were on the train for hours getting there and how you had to sit next to one of dad’s co-workers and it was terrible.
Mom: Yes that did happen, and it was terrible.
Me: Anything good happen there?
Mom: You were conceived.
Me: Well how lovely.
Mom: And that was one hell of a night.
Oh What a Night
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Oh lordy, my mother just LOVES to tell me and anyone I bring over to the house (friends, boyfriend, you name it) when and where I was conceived. This has happened countless times at the dinner table. She thinks it is hilarious.
(In case you’re curious, it was aboard the RMS Queen Mary, on their 2nd wedding anniversary).
March 5, 2009 at 7:40 pm
What a lovely coincidence. My older sister was also conceived in New Orleans. Ha!
March 5, 2009 at 11:34 pm
My cousin jokes with her daughter that she was conceived either in the bushes of her mom’s house or in the back row of a movie theater. (She was 16.)
March 6, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Now that would make an interesting post on this website., Like the one about modern day grandma’s not wanting to babysit the grandkids, how about one where we can post where we were conceived??? That could be hilarious!!! I like the bushes or back row of a theatre. Wonder how many would be in the back seat of a car?? At the drive inn movie theatre? In a closet at work??? Could really be interesting…..
March 6, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I would support that site Jeffrey!! I also think this post is hilarious :)
March 6, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I’m pretty sure I know the person who typed this. Or there is a lot going down in New Orleans
March 6, 2009 at 3:40 pm
I thought I was the only one with a mom who thinks it’s funny to torment me with this information. I get a call on the anniversary of my conception every single year. My mom started teasing me about it when I was in high school. When I moved away for college, I thought that was the end of it. Apparently, i’d underestimated my mother’s determination to have a good laugh at my expense…
The first call came when I was a college freshman, and I was mortified. Every year since then, when my phone rings on that day, and I see my parents’ phone number on the caller id, I know what’s coming. I figure answering is better than listening to the voicemail that’s sure to be left. The call’s always the same:
me: hello, mother.
mom: hello dear. do you know what today is?
me: yes, ma.
mom: twenty six years ago today…
me: i know, mom
dad (in the background): that’s one night i should have just gone to sleep!!
…he makes the same joke every year, and every year he laughs so hard i worry he’ll hurt himself. the scary thing is, i know a day will come when i’ll think doing this to my kids is absolutely hysterical.
May 20, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Ha! I hear it from my mom all the time: I was conceived on April Fools Day in the Grand Canyon with her in laws in the next room. Whenever people ask why they only had one child, my mom says they couldn’t top that…
May 20, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Sometimes it’s best not to know. I asked why my birthday and sister’s were both at the beginning of December. And my mother quickly responded with… because your dad’s birthday is in March. ewwww…..
May 21, 2009 at 2:34 pm
@ Sharon: ewww, but LOL!
May 22, 2009 at 11:09 am
Um, my mom has joked on several occasions that my real father may be Goofy, as I was conceived in Disneyworld.
May 22, 2009 at 2:53 pm