Oh, Good Luck, by far.

[tzikeh]

My dad belongs to a golf etc. country club. This puts my mother into the subset of "wives of men who belong to the golf etc. country club". They don't attend many functions, but they occasionally socialize with a few couples they've met and liked. A few days ago, a woman relatively unknown to my mom asked her to lunch and my mom, in full "what am I going to do, say 'no'?" mode, accepted.

Players During Said Lunch:

MM = My Mother
UCCL = Unfamiliar Country Club Lady

UCCL: So, do you and your husband go to the movies?
MM: Oh yeah, we're huge movie fans. We go all the time.
UCCL: Oh, *good*! My husband and I never know what to see. I'd love some suggestions!
MM: Well, we recently saw Capote; that was very good.
UCCL: Is that about the mafia?
MM: *pause* No - it's about Truman Capote.
UCCL: *blank stare*
MM: He wrote In Cold Blood...?
UCCL: *continues blank stare*
MM: He wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's...?
UCCL: Oh, he wrote movies?
MM: *pause* Yes.
UCCL: *scribbles down "Caponee" in datebook* What else did you see?
MM: Last week we saw Good Night, and Good Luck.
UCCL: Which one did you like better?
MM: *pause* *mental equivalent of headdesk* *politely changes subject*

Comments

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. I feel for your mom. This sounds like one of the conversations I had with the Nice But Dull Women Who Work Upstairs--which lead me to changing the time I took lunch, because I decided I would rather read than blink that many times while eating.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

::dies::

[klia.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee! Sounds like your mom needs to widen her social circle. *g*

[eliade.livejournal.com]

God, I thought this was progressing toward a Brokeback Mountain moment. *g* But this was just as priceless.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

This woman sounds like one of those contestants for that Beauty and the Geek thing that I saw a preview for. OI.

::headdesks along with your mom::

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Yep, like eliade, I hoped for a BBM reference. Tell your mom that my whole life is like this. Then buy her some chocolate.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

a friend of mine swears that his mother once had a conversation where a country club lady noticed her new skirt, specifically the fabric, and asked what it was; the mother said it was silk, and allowed the others to feel it; and the first woman said "oh, that's so nice! it feels just like rayon!"

i swear i don't know why those people have all my money.

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

Now I want to see "Caponee." Philip Seymour Hoffman is unforgettable as a French rooster.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

OMG> That's just... aiiiie!!

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

OMG, those are the last two movies I saw in the theater.

::eerie music::

But your mom is WAY more patient with stupid people than I am. Therefore clearly we are not the same person. QED.

(It's waaaaaaay past my bedtime.)

[zoerayne]

This is my life. It's also why I don't socialize with my neighbors at all, ever, period. *g*

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

If I didn't know you better, I would swear you were totally making this up.

[jfc013.livejournal.com]

*plays devil's advocate*

Well, your mom DID mention two movies they'd recently seen. Maybe the CCL meant which one *of those* they'd liked better? :)

[greywingnut.livejournal.com]

Kim and I went to a fundraiser here in DC a couple years ago, and we were seated at a table with six others we didn't know. The woman on my left struck up a conversation and asked what we did for a living.

Kim, wiser than I, tried to be vague and said she worked for the government. The woman kept probing, and Kim eventually divulged she's a NASA astrophysicist.

I think the woman's brain overloaded at the very concept. Her face froze for a solid three count, then she moved on to me as if Kim no longer existed.

When I explained I worked for a trade association serving food processing equipment manufacturers, she gushed about how much she loved her new custom Sub Zero refrigerator.

Oy to the vey. Tell you mom we feel her pain.

I'm ready to listen...are you ready to think?

[tripodella.livejournal.com]

Your mom can make a t-shirt of the above and wear it to the country club! Certainly this will attract the right people! : ) *wave* *Hugs*

Sorry I couldn't make it Monday night. New stuff going on that I'm DYING to tell you about...