Awkward Family Story: Big in Texas
July 15th, 2009
My mother was a beautiful woman but of low self image. To compensate for this, she liked to wear revealing clothing. We still tell stories of the backless “Victoria Secret” dress my mother would wear to pick us up at school. Still knowing all of this, I invited my future husband (then boyfriend) to meet my mother. I tried to build her up for him, saying she was tall and good looking… so we walk up to her door and ring the door bell. The entrance is a good 6 inches higher then the entrance step. My mother throws opens the door and is wearing nothing but a string bikini made out of the Texas Flag, star on one DD size boob, red and blue strip on the other exactly at my husbands eye level… Awkward.
(submitted by Kyra)
Tags: mom
This probably did win him over for you. He was probably thinking, “If this is what she is going to look like someday, I’m IN!”
Uhhh, picture please…
You know, it’s really your own fault. If you knew your mother did things like this, you should have informed her you were bringing him over or something. Also, most people I know with “low self image” do anything they can to cover up, not overcompensate.
Different people react to low self images in different ways.
They definitely do.
“Made out of” the Texas flag? Is this a case of desecrating the flag of the Lone Star State?
This story is useless without pics. Lots of pics.
Your husband is a brave man.
this is more sad than awkward.
Thinking the same…thinking that perhaps Mom had a little more goin’ on than low self esteem.
Dear AFP Forum: I never thought it would happen to me …
Pics or it didn’t happen.
AGREED!
I guess ya had ta be there.
Mommy!
I agree the outcome of this story is awkward and embarrassing, but why did she feel it necessary to tell her boyfriend how tall and beautiful her mother was? “Oh you’re gonna love Mom! She’s so tall and beautiful!” That in itself is awkward.
Hmm I nead to read the story again. I read it to say that she told her mom how tall and beautiful she was, to help build her self esteem up.
Yeah but the mom wasn’t there to hear, in order to be “built up.”
Not everyone can photoshop a picture into being awkward, but anybody can write up an awkward story…
Yeah….it honestly sounds a little made up to me…
If Mom is still living, this is beyond awkward!
If your Mom is still living AND reading this…this is beyond beyond awkward.
please-no more stories just photos
they are never worth reading
LOL, i agree…this is awkward family PHOTOS after all, isn’t it?
Then don’t read them?
Please, no more of your comments; they aren’t worth reading.
Just look at the photos and ignore the stories if they bother you so much. Or, hey, maybe go find or create another site.
Really, people like Terry, we get that you don’t like the stories, but maybe others do. What we don’t get is how either you can’t skip past them or your not being able to skip past them has to be everyone else’s problem.
The stories are often a nice intermission between photos, like cleansing the palate between awkward wine samples at an awkward wine tasting event…
And that indicated low self esteem?
that’s what i was thinking…hate think what, if anything, she would wear if she had high self esteem.
If she had high self esteem, she wouldn’t need to demand that kind of attention at that kind of moment.
yup, you win
Wow…now THAT’S embarrassment, folks. Does this have any bearing on why that boyfriend wanted to join the family, permanently?
Everything is bigger in Texas, embarrassment is no exception
Please tell me you have a picture of mom in said bikini…that would be so awesomely awkward that it would make my day!
that’s my mom
We NEED to see a picture of your mom!
QUOTE: “…string bikini made out of the Texas Flag, star on one DD size boob…”
……and I for one would like to meet your mother.
What no picture =]
I think a photo would have made this a better story.
I will probably not be alone when I say I think we need a picture of this.
god yes, I got a full visual, but imagine that the real thing is even awkwarder!!
So, where is a family photo including your hot mom?
“throws opens the door”? wouldn’t that know him over?
Doors open into homes also.
Uhhhhhhh, what? I think this goes beyond awkward and borders on disturbing.
I’d have to agree with you.
yeah, it’s just not right.
Giggity!!!
okay then Quagmire!
How is that awkward? Got you a husband, didn’t it?
I was gonna say the same thing!