BFFs

Sitting tonight with mom watching the Yankee game...Guess I was looking a little serious.  Mom looks at me and says, "Whats wrong...are you feeling sorry for yourself"..."Yes i am mom" I answered with my best pouty face....She says tongue in cheek..."awwww Ill be your friend when nobody else will be"  Thanks mom.

Seeing Double

After work today I took mom down to "our bench" to sit and people watch for a while.  The usual cast of characters were accounted for.  A combination of families on a stroll, people rushing home from work, day drinkers calling it a day,  Pub crawlers looking for their first stop and joggers jogging.

A pretty 30ish woman walked by in a white dress.  Her lower body was somewhat disproportionate to her upper body.  As she was walking away this became even more obvious with significant posterior motion in her walk.   About 5 minutes later another young woman with similar proportions but in a print dress approached.  After she walked by we noticed an almost identical sway.  Mom looked perplexed and after a few moments, said, "was that the same woman?"  I said, "no mom they just have the same affliction"

New Yorker's Ain't That Bad

Momma Glad actually asked me to write this up.
Yesterday we ventured into Manhattan in Leaping Lena (Mom's car) to go to my favorite little neighborhood restaurant in the city.  Specifically went this weekend because I know that this and next weekend the parking will be a little easier since people are out of town for vacation.  Got great parking and scored a table outside.  Amazing experience and she loved the food.  Well, she asked about the restroom.  I told her that the restroom was downstairs and the stairs steep and  very narrow.  She said, "let me look at them"  So after we settled up our bill I walked her inside to check it out.  One look at the stairway and she said, "Oh my, I can't do that".....So we exited the side door next to the stairs and headed to the car.  She said, do they have a McDonald's I can go to?  Well mom they don't have McDonald's with parking lots in Manhattan and the bathroom may be in the basement anyway.  What about a gas station?  Well mom they don't really have many gas stations on the island either.  There are a few stations on the edges of Manhattan but no guarantee they will have a bathroom you can use.  She said, "Well what do people do here for gas?"  Honestly mom most people in the city don't have cars.....We can head back home but we may get jammed up on the bridge, since they are doing construction.  She is like, "Oh"  So I am racking my brain...I headed toward my old hood. Union Sq. and Gramercy Park area.  I said to her, " it isn't just finding a place with a bathroom on the first floor, I have to  be able to park the car and get you in."  So I think, let me hit Irving place.  Parking may not be awful and there are several restaurants....If nothing else, Pete's Tavern, (made famous by O'Henry's Gift of the Magi fame among others) is there.  So I head up Irving Place and find parking across from an upscale Japanese restaurant.  I walk in and ask the hostess if they have a ladies room on the first floor.  She said yes,  I asked her if I could possibly bring my mom in because she couldn't walk the stairs at the place we had brunch.  She pointed to the  back and said in a heavy accent, "it's OK" So I retrieved mom and took her in.  I thanked the hostess on the way in and again on the way out.  I promised her we would come back and have a meal there. She said, "you very welcome", and made a slight bow.  On the way back to the car mom said, "you know that was the prettiest place I have ever used to restroom in"  Mom was grateful that someone let us use their facilities without having eaten there.  Today mom told me to write this up with instructions to tell people, that "not all New Yorker's are mean and hateful like some people think"  

Watermelon

Mom: You want some watermelon?
Me:  Yes
Mom:  Big or small
Me: Medium
Note - Mom looks at me funny
Me:  Are you making fun of me?
Mom:  No I look to funny myself
Me:  Hahahahahah i.e. laughing
Mom:  Shut-up

The Big Plan

Relaxing Saturday morning.....Im walking through the kitchen and mom asks me "what are you doing"?  I said, " I'm eating the rest of this banana, what are you doing?"  "I'm doing the dishes right now"  So I said, "or did you mean the big plan for the day?"  She says, "Yes I did but i'm not gonna tell you what it is" lol

Isometrics

Mom is always busting my chops about the amount of ice I use in drinks.  Ice tea, ice water, ice milk etc.  So we were talking this morning about an exercise program I bought when I was a teenager.  I told her it was based on isometric exercises.  She said, "well you are sure isometric"  I said, "what do you mean?"
She said, "the amount of Ice you drink"  Ok mom. lol

Are You Comfortable?

I was putzing around the apartment and realized it was a bit warm.  I hadn't noticed because I had a fan on me.  Mom watching TV in my room.  I asked her, " Mom are you comfortable?"  She said, "Why, are you fixin to kill me?"  LOL

Hoarders

I was watching TV and mom came and sat down.  I asked her if she was getting hungry. She said, :"I don't know...do you want anything?"  I said, "I don't know, we'll figure something out."  She asked, "what's on TV?'  "Hoarders" I said.  Without hesitation she said, "that ought to give us something appetizing to think about" 

Attention

Momma Glad Moment:  Had dinner at the local Diner.  Two waiters and the maître d came by and asked if she was finished and offered to take away her plate.  Mom said, " boy I must look awful good....had three men trying to tend to my dish....now they know how to treat a woman"