We are at the 14^th anniversary of Susan’s first trip to meet my Parent’s. It was around Easter time of 1993. Let me start out by by talking about the trip preparation.

Susan lived in an apartment in Chicago. Her landlord gave her some homemade Pickled Cabbage as gift. Susan is too nice to say no, so she took it with the plan to throw it out later. Susan also made some Pound cake for my parents.

We start our trip with everything packed up including the Pickled Cabbage and Pound Cake. At the first gas stop Susan gave me a package to throw away, she told me it was the pickled cabbage. We continued on our way.

During the drive I told Susan about my parent’s dog Max. I told Susan that Max has had problems with biting people. I also told Susan that Max was a good judge of character and hated people he did not like.

We drove on. During a rest stop or lunch break Susan realized that she threw away the pound cake instead of the Pickled Cabbage. I told her that my parent’s would love the Pickled Cabbage, Susan threw it away anyway.

 

By the time we go to the house Susan was very nervous, not about meeting my Parent’s but about meeting Max. Max loved Susan, so that went very well. And my Parent’s were very well behaved. I told Susan that it was not my real Parent’s, they were rentals.

 

The next morning Susan went down to take a shower . Me and my Dad were sitting at the dining room table. After a few minutes we heard a loud thump. My Dad asked my what was that? I told him it was the shower head, we both started to laugh.

When Susan came up from the shower, she told us that she broke the shower head. Of course I had to give her a hard time. My Dad took the shower head and proceeded to glue it back together. Of course it took the entire weekend and it was a big deal

I still insisted that it was my Rental Parents she meet. Anyway Susan married me anyway.

Joe