Mooooooom! You're embarrassing me!

**Disclaimer:  No preteens were harmed in the making of this blog post.  Only their pride was wounded. :D

*happy sigh*  Nothing does my heart good like embarrassing my kids.  I figure it's nice payback for a total of 2 weeks of labor while bringing them into this world.   (Long and painful story, don't ask.)


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When I see them squirm and check to make sure none of their friends are nearby, I know I've done a good job.  It's all I can do not to give a fist pump and shout "YESSS!"  Hehe

How does this relate to role playing?  Glad you asked!

I went to the local bookstore to do some research for RPing. (Translation:  buy some Star Trek books.)  While talking to the sales associate, I casually mentioned that I am part of an online role playing group on Twitter.  (Okay, it was more like:  "Guess what?!  I RP on Twitter and it's so much fun and we have a ST/SW/Firefly crossover RP and we have a blast you should join us!"  The aforementioned conversation is done with the words quickly blurted out and has the appropriately excited and animated hand gestures to accompany it.)

THEN the clerk mentioned she was rather fond of Star Trek, as well.  (Translation:  "OMG!  No way!  I LOVE Star Trek!  That sounds so cool!  Do you guys have a website or anything?!?"  Again, hand gestures and a look of rapture accompany this declaration of geeky joy.)

At this point - the epitome of our Trekkie Nirvana - up walks my daughter.

I wish I could have had a camera in order to capture the look on her face.  A mixture of horror and..........well, actually, horror pretty much covers it.

BUT WAIT!  IT GETS BETTER!

You see, my lovely daughter had come seeking me out so she could get money from me.  (*insert evil grin here*)  It is quite amazing the things that children will suffer through to get money at the Mall, especially female children.

So, being the wonderful mother I am, decided to torture her further.  (*insert diabolical laugh here*)

Instead of letting her slink off and come back to ask for money when my Trekkiefest was over, I grinned and said, "Oh look!  There's my daughter!" and proceeded to put an arm around her as I talked to my fellow Trekkie.  She actually hid her face. ("Moooooom!  You're embarrassing me!")  She quickly asked for her money and left.

It was awesome.  I figure it's good payback for her making me listen to Adam Lambert songs all the time.