Don’t call your father to wish him Happy Birthday! I convinced him it was tomorrow because I forgot. Sigh.
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"I'm named after the song A Letter to Elise by The Cure, and my middlenames: Klara and Lisel were chosen because my mom had a dream about having a daughter named Klara, and she promised my great-grandmother that she would name me Lisel."
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Quite possibly my favorite post so far.
December 2, 2009 at 9:59 am
Wow. This mom must have great persuasion skills!
December 2, 2009 at 10:32 am
LOL, this one is awesome!
December 2, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Love it! I’m going to keep this one in the recesses of my memory bank.
December 2, 2009 at 12:19 pm
I want to meet this Mom – that is awesome!
December 2, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I have to know: did it work?
December 2, 2009 at 10:06 pm
The birthday whiskey from work and the call from his mother in Canada made him suspicious. At around 9pm he finally checked his driver’s license.
December 3, 2009 at 12:10 am
What an amazing woman! Would she be willing to mentor me?
December 3, 2009 at 1:20 am
I could probably do this to my boyfriend. He called me up once to ask how old he was (and wasn’t drunk). I don’t feel that bad when he forgets my birthday because apparently he can’t keep his straight either.
December 3, 2009 at 4:03 am
Nice jedi mind trick…Mom is a virtual Yoda!
December 3, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Hilarious! He had to check his driver’s license!
I guess the event was probably more momentous to his mother than to him. After all, she had to do the work.
December 4, 2009 at 3:17 pm
This is awesome and terrible at the same time! Thanks for letting us know how it turned out – that’s almost as funny as the e-mail.
December 5, 2009 at 5:46 pm
This is SO funny – maybe the best one here. It’s great too that you updated us with the driver’s license part, LOL!
Sarah – I know the feeling; my partner has no idea how old he is, he asks me constantly. He also can’t remember our phone number (which he has had 4 years longer than me!)
December 10, 2009 at 10:09 pm