Overheard
MVP opens his new graduation laptop that is resting on the couch:
MVP: What have we here? (Holds a popcorn kernel skin aloft for all to see; rotates it to catch the light). Who do we know that both eats popcorn all the time and is addicted to the computer?!
Me (looking shamefacedly at floor):
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While watching the last episode of Season 3 of Weeds.
Me: I'm beginning to think Nancy Botwin isn't a very good mother.
MVP: Ya' think?
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Social Butterfly and I are driving along, listening to a Hip-Hop station. I decide it's time for a lesson in metaphor:
Me: Do you know why all these songs are always talking about lollipops?
SB: No.
Me: What do you do with a lollipop?
SB: You su . . . Oh. EWW!
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This one is from my BFF (Other Mother of my Kids), OMomK. She is driving up the road to Lake Tahoe with her 13 and 18 year old daughters, Care Bear and Big Sis. OMomK is reminiscing about driving this road with their dad, her late husband, long before they were married.
OMomK: It was about 3 in the morning and we were on E.
Care Bear: Mom! That's so dangerous.
OMomK: Yeah. Your Dad used to be a little irresponsible about those things when he was young. He was always on E.
Care Bear: I can't believe you guys would do something like that.
OMomK: Well I was really nervous, but he was sure it would be fine.
Care Bear: I just can't believe you would be so irresponsible. You could have been killed!
OMomK: I don't really think we would have been killed.
Further discussion on this topic revealed two different conversations taking place. In one, OMomK was discussing driving a twisty mountain road in the middle of the night with the gas tank needle on E. In the other conversation Care Bear heard her mother confessing that she and her Dad had driven this same twisty mountain road in the middle of the night while high on Ecstasy. Aaah, the generation gap!
I don't know what it means that I thought by "E" she meant Ecstasy. And I was all, "Why would she tell her kid that?," and all "Did they even have Ecstasy back then?," and all, "WTFrick?"
Empty. Maybe I'm just too old to remember back to when I was young and foolish enough to drive around in the middle of the night with my gas gauge on E.
This gave me a good laugh Jenn.
Posted by: Cheri @ Blog This Mom! | July 12, 2008 at 01:38 AM
Oh, good grief; that Cheri woman beat me here AGAIN! But this time, I have an original comment...
That lollipop convo? I had that with my daughter, too, when "Candy Shop" came out. Except the speakers of the lines were reversed. Bad sign.
Posted by: Kalynne Pudner | July 12, 2008 at 01:41 AM
Like Cheri, I interpreted E the the same way as Care Bear. Must be because I've lived so many yas in places where you simply can't let the gastank go down on Empty
Posted by: Trudie | July 12, 2008 at 02:11 AM
Yes, I think metaphor lessons are much needed, especially for hip hop lyrics.
Geez, I wish you had been MY mom back in the day.
Posted by: manager mom | July 12, 2008 at 06:08 AM
They all killed me, but the last one was the funniest. If these gas prices keep going crazy it won't be long until you'll all know what E (empty) means....
Posted by: Madge | July 12, 2008 at 07:56 AM
hahaahaaaahaa....I just had the lollipop discussion with Little Red a couple weeks ago. She had that same reaction! Ewwwwwww!
Posted by: Mary Alice | July 12, 2008 at 08:13 AM
Poor SB!! Since we don't listen to hiphop in my little world, it hasn't been an issue...but I will forever keep that in mind. Thanks...I think!!
Gas tank on Empty, that I understood. It took me 2 lines to realize you were word-playing with the drug. I might be living in the past...
Posted by: kcinnova | July 12, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Ha haha! I fell for the E, too! What a good one!
Posted by: Madmad | July 12, 2008 at 10:23 AM
OK, you have referred to Weeds so many times I clicked on it. Have you read about it here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds_(TV_series)#Plot_synopsis
I mean, I know this is a synopsis, but whoa.
Thought it might give you a giggle!
Posted by: Marie | July 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM
I totally thought she was talking about Extasy too. ><
Posted by: Memarie Lane | July 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Classic!
My two were singing Mika's Lollipop song in the car...with me cringing, but thanking god/buddha / whoever that they were clueless!
Posted by: Hen | July 12, 2008 at 10:49 AM
I listen to songs NOW that I listend to as a teen and I think "OMG...are they talking about...?" Yeah, I was clueless in high school.
Posted by: Fannie | July 12, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Ahhhh, I remember the good ole days when we called it X.
Yes, it's been around since the 1980's.
Posted by: Suzy | July 12, 2008 at 12:00 PM
That last story cracked me up.
Posted by: Just Jamie | July 12, 2008 at 12:51 PM
I love these snippets. Popcorn, lollipops, and E. Can you imagine driving through winding roads on E?
Posted by: Jason | July 12, 2008 at 01:26 PM
I love your weekly recaps. I honestly don't listen to hip hop and don't know that I would have understood that is what they are singing about. They dont' do that in my Christian Rock songs....
KEEP BELIEVING
Posted by: Angie @ Keep Believing | July 12, 2008 at 02:10 PM
I was wondering how much Care Bear knew about E! I had to think on my feet yesterday with song lyrics. I hate to go back to Disney songs in the car but I might have to!
Posted by: Melanie | July 12, 2008 at 03:28 PM
Ah, the difficulties of communicating.
Posted by: magpie | July 12, 2008 at 05:24 PM
"Lesson in metaphor" - that is priceless. I want to stab my own eardrums when those songs come on. And then I have to go look stuff up on UrbanDictionary.com.
But I'm not so out of it - I also went right to "Ecstasy" for E.
Posted by: stephanie (bad mom) | July 12, 2008 at 06:22 PM
I swear I am the same age as at least some of you but for the life of me I couldn't figure out why driving on empty was so bad. And the lollipop thing? Clueless...my reaction? "Ewwwww"
Love that mom got busted on the computer!!!
Posted by: the girl next door | July 12, 2008 at 07:42 PM
Funny but disturbing. Except for the first one, which is just funny. Don't you hate getting busted by your kids?
Posted by: Tina | July 12, 2008 at 10:26 PM
oh, funny!
Posted by: Lori Anderson | July 13, 2008 at 12:07 AM
I figured out the E!
I love these posts.
Posted by: Jennifer H | July 13, 2008 at 12:31 AM
Eeewwww indeed - I'm with SB. I had no idea about the lollipop theme in rap music. That generation gap "E" think is rather sad, though. Of course, I immediately thought "E" was an empty gas tank, too. I am SO out of the loop *sigh*
Posted by: Chatty | July 13, 2008 at 03:08 AM
Oh. My. God. I didn't get either of these references - the lollypop OR the E. We're in the land of potty training and 'don't swim past your belly button' land over here.
I have to cool up - and quick!
Posted by: Manic Mommy | July 19, 2008 at 10:52 PM