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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Allie wrote:
    just enjoy the moment :)
    thanks, I will do :) just hope it doesn't rain on Friday cos that'll fuck my hair up... don't wanna throw a bad hair day into the mix :D
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Good luck, Helen. :)

    It can't be any worse than my experience with meeting my girlyfriend's parents. On Easter Sunday. Including her stepdad, who's an asshole, and a cop, in that order. :p
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Good luck, Helen. :)

    It can't be any worse than my experience with meeting my girlyfriend's parents. On Easter Sunday. Including her stepdad, who's an asshole, and a cop, in that order. :p
    :eek: oh dear, bit surely it can ALWAYS be worse? :o
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :eek: oh dear, bit surely it can ALWAYS be worse? :o

    Helen, the man had a pistol, tazer and baton. It was all I could do not to run in terror. :p
    That said, I'm sure it can always be worse... but thinking that way is just gonna put you on edge going in there. Just do that thing they tell you to do when you're speaking in public: imagine your boyfriend's parents in their underwear. :p
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  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Jeanie wrote:
    The ones you get on long haul flights! :D
    yes! those!!! not to mention wrinkled pants and shirts!!! and helen, while on the flight......DO NOT use the bathroom! You will end up smelling like a convalescent home with no windows!!!! :eek:
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  • dunkman
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    Heineken Helen wrote:
    It was supposed to be just the dad but now the two of them are ambushing me! :eek:

    he has 2 dads? ;)

    i actually feel sorry for the parents... :p
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    dunkman wrote:
    he has 2 dads? ;)

    i actually feel sorry for the parents... :p

    I feel sorry for the parents as well!
    they are going to get such a nice impression of helen, as a nice little catholic irish girl, but little do they know... :eek:
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  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    vedder_soup wrote:
    I feel sorry for the parents as well!
    they are going to get such a nice impression of helen, as a nice little catholic irish girl, but little do they know... :eek:

    HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAH
  • pearljammin41
    pearljammin41 Posts: 465
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    this Friday... for the first time :eek:

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    :o

    It was supposed to be just the dad but now the two of them are ambushing me! :eek:


    good luck!
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    vedder_soup wrote:
    they will be fine! i am not worried about them!
    wait... back to helen meeting the parents...
    uuummmm, naaaaa all the good advice has been said so i will keep my mouth shut!


    Oh good! :)

    And back to meeting the parents, I think I decided a long time ago that an orphan is my kinda guy. :D (I'm kidding of course! :p Although there have been some parents I've met and wished that the guy was an orphan! :eek: )

    But that isn't the case here Hels. Sounds like these people like you already. :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    SENROCK! wrote:
    yes! those!!! not to mention wrinkled pants and shirts!!! and helen, while on the flight......DO NOT use the bathroom! You will end up smelling like a convalescent home with no windows!!!! :eek:


    Sen!!! :D You made coffee come out my nose!!! :D:p;)
    NOPE!!!

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  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    Jeanie wrote:
    Sen!!! :D You made coffee come out my nose!!! :D:p;)

    that is another good tip...
    dont spill your drink through your nose!
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

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  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    the first time I met my dad-in-law he told me about his acid tripS while in the Coast Guard on a tiny island way out in the Pacific. I immediately loved the guy.

    He also won $64k on "who wants to be a millionaire" and has an IQ of 17X, so the conversations are usually fantastic, except when he goes over my head with his encyclopedic knowledge.
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  • GraySaturday
    GraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    Helen, not sure if you will read this because its 7 pages in, but I have a funny story about meeting the boyfriends parents for the first time (well he's my husband now)

    So, I am from Philadelphia and my husband is from Michigan, and he moved to the Philly area in 2004 to take a job and an Architect. So we met out there, and stuff. So we started dating the very end of April 2005 and he was going home for the July 4th week to see his parents, and he invited me out there. And we were still a new couple at the time so I was super excited. So we booked a flight to fly to Michigan.

    Fast forward to us at the airport leaving to go visit them. So our flight gets canceled. Sucks! So we are like, okay lets get a new flight.. NOPE no more flights for 3 days, because there was a huge concert event in Philadelphia that weekend, some festival and everything was booked solid across the board, so we're like shit, what to do... so we are like, okay, we're gonna have to drive it. (14 hours) so we're like all ready to drive it, and we go to get our suitcases back from the airline to leave, and no bags! They couldn't find them. So we end up spending 10 hours at the Philadelphia airport trying to have our bags located. 10 hours into the day, they locate our bags. They were spotted being loaded onto a flight to Detroit Michigan! So our bags went to Michigan without us. We had to start driving because it was getting late. So we only got 3 hours into the drive before we were exhusted. We pulled over to a hotel and everything was totally filled and so we had to sleep in the car. Mind you, it was the smallest Audi ever. And we had no suitcase, no clothes nothing! So I couldn't sleep and I begged him to sleep just enough to drive a little more to find a hotel. So we finally did. We found a shitty place to sleep, slept in our clothes, couldn't brush our teeth or shower or anything. Got up completely tired, dirty, and just nasty, and drive 11 more hours. We had to stop in Detroit and track down our bags and then we FINALLY got to his parents house. I was SO embarrassed because I looked worse then I have ever looked before. It was truly the trip from hell (well atleast the beginning)


    Moral of the story: It's got to be better than that!!! :)
  • Allie
    Allie Posts: 2,908
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    thanks, I will do :) just hope it doesn't rain on Friday cos that'll fuck my hair up... don't wanna throw a bad hair day into the mix :D
    don't think of all the things that could go wrong, think positive!

    But yeah, I know what you mean I get super frizzy hair when it rains also.

    Bring a clip or something in case you need to pull it up.

    And yeah riding on the plane is not good for hair either, someone else mentioned that, but it is true.
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
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  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    GraySaturday wrote:
    Helen, not sure if you will read this because its 7 pages in, but I have a funny story about meeting the boyfriends parents for the first time (well he's my husband now)

    So, I am from Philadelphia and my husband is from Michigan, and he moved to the Philly area in 2004 to take a job and an Architect. So we met out there, and stuff. So we started dating the very end of April 2005 and he was going home for the July 4th week to see his parents, and he invited me out there. And we were still a new couple at the time so I was super excited. So we booked a flight to fly to Michigan.

    Fast forward to us at the airport leaving to go visit them. So our flight gets canceled. Sucks! So we are like, okay lets get a new flight.. NOPE no more flights for 3 days, because there was a huge concert event in Philadelphia that weekend, some festival and everything was booked solid across the board, so we're like shit, what to do... so we are like, okay, we're gonna have to drive it. (14 hours) so we're like all ready to drive it, and we go to get our suitcases back from the airline to leave, and no bags! They couldn't find them. So we end up spending 10 hours at the Philadelphia airport trying to have our bags located. 10 hours into the day, they locate our bags. They were spotted being loaded onto a flight to Detroit Michigan! So our bags went to Michigan without us. We had to start driving because it was getting late. So we only got 3 hours into the drive before we were exhusted. We pulled over to a hotel and everything was totally filled and so we had to sleep in the car. Mind you, it was the smallest Audi ever. And we had no suitcase, no clothes nothing! So I couldn't sleep and I begged him to sleep just enough to drive a little more to find a hotel. So we finally did. We found a shitty place to sleep, slept in our clothes, couldn't brush our teeth or shower or anything. Got up completely tired, dirty, and just nasty, and drive 11 more hours. We had to stop in Detroit and track down our bags and then we FINALLY got to his parents house. I was SO embarrassed because I looked worse then I have ever looked before. It was truly the trip from hell (well atleast the beginning)


    Moral of the story: It's got to be better than that!!! :)

    wow thats messed up. that airline should pay you for your lost time.
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • GraySaturday
    GraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    he still stands wrote:
    wow thats messed up. that airline should pay you for your lost time.

    haha! Nope, but they told us we could sleep in the airport over night if we needed to. Jerks!

    We had to FIGHT them over getting our money back. They said they'd just give us a ticket in the future. We told them we would rather shoot ourselves then fly with them again. We got our money back, but it wasn't easy.
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    GraySaturday wrote:
    haha! Nope, but they told us we could sleep in the airport over night if we needed to. Jerks!

    We had to FIGHT them over getting our money back. They said they'd just give us a ticket in the future. We told them we would rather shoot ourselves then fly with them again. We got our money back, but it wasn't easy.

    The only airline I've ever had luck with is US Airways, and that is because I have flown probably 200 segments with them over the past 3 years. They bend over for me, but other airlines don't even have the common courtesy of using lube when they have cancellations, lose my shit, etc. I've started driving for business trips that are less than 8 hours because I'll probably make it there faster anyway.
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    vedder_soup wrote:
    that is another good tip...
    dont spill your drink through your nose!

    Perhaps some people just need a health warning on their posts!! ;):D

    Or maybe I should just learn not to be sipping liquid when reading the funny folks posts! ;):D
    NOPE!!!

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  • Allie
    Allie Posts: 2,908
    Jeanie wrote:
    Oh good!

    And back to meeting the parents, I think I decided a long time ago that an orphan is my kinda guy.
    quote]
    Hiya Jeanie!

    John Rzeznik is an orphan :( both his parents died before he was 16. That's really sad. To me it makes his success even more inspirational.

    that was kind of random...
    but actually, to get Freudian-my ex's mother was exactly like me. It was scary. She even laughed like I did.

    I also met another friend of mine's parents and he had told his mom all about me and I remember going 'gee, that's weird, I wonder why he did that.' I do well with parents though :)
    I was talking to his dad about the Mets or whatever. It worked out well :) .

    Just be yourself Helen, if your guy likes you, his folks should like you also :)
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
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