11 December 2008

Dialog, Part 18

Mom: What's this?

Me: That's my Reason magazine.

Mom: What's it about?

Me: It's sort of like the official Libertarian magazine.

Mom: Aren't those like Communists?

Me: Mom, you just called me a Communist.

Mom: Well, aren't you?

Me: Yes, Mom. Yes. I'm a Communist. My Korean War-veteran father is currently spinning in his grave, he's so proud of his little Commie daughter. In fact, I'm thinking of changing Bubba's name to Vladimir Lenin. And I've decided to re-decorate in a hammer/sickle theme. Lots of reds*. Paging Senator McCarthy! Line 1, please! We've got a Communist housewife in Georgia!

Sigh

*Pardon the pun.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Funny!
Aww. Poor mom. When you're not pulling your hair out, you have to feel bad that she doesn't understand the difference.

jayna said...

I don't know why, but I never realized they had actual print publications. I think I need to squirrel that away for the future - my commie bastard husband would love to get that in the mail.

Expat No. 3699 said...

I think you should get your mom a subscription of that magazine for Christmas!

Willie G said...

Oh I can so relate. Here's the one I get, "You just want to legalize pot don't you?"

Anonymous said...

just thank god she didn't find your copy of Playpoet .... then you'd have some 'splainin to do

Faiqa said...

Hahaha. Commie.

A Free Man said...

I'm a communist.

Well, a socialist, but that didn't work as well for this particular comment.

Not Afraid to Use It said...

No wonder we get along so well.

Gypsy said...

Sigh indeed.