Does anyone else have conversations like this?

[unknownfate]

Mom: (completely out of nowhere) Will you be good to me when I’m in a nursing home?
Me: Uh… I guess…?
(there’s a pause where we both laugh)
Me: I always assumed you wouldn’t go to one.
Mom: What, you’d kill me before then?
Me: Wha?
Mom: I don’t think you or your sisters have it in you to smother me with a pillow.
Me: (giggling) Ohhh, I don’t know… We might summon up the strength, along with some bad memories from childhood…
Mom: (also laughing) Nope. You don’t have the guts.
(we’re both hysterical for a minute)
Me: Have you had this conversation with Dad? Questioned his stomach for killing?
Mom: (still laughing, shakes head.)
Me: Maybe if you were a skunk!* (and then we both howled with laughter.)

*My poor father has been under siege from the local skunk clans. Not as stealthy as ninjas, but in their own way, just as bad.

Comments

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I've talked to my daughter about whether I'll end up in a nursing home, but you're a lot funnier about it than I am!

Though I told Phil the Nurse that I'm already planning on being a holy terror in the nursing home.

"I used to have a job like yours and if I'd have been as lazy as you are they'd have fired my ass!"

Though probably I wouldn't. I just want a place where they'll let me play video games.

[bane-6.livejournal.com]

I had alway assumed they would be living with me. I seem to recall that being the deal for many of my younger day loans.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Well, she said that she can't have both me and her father with her, since we're divorced. Which makes sense.

I joke, but I'm worried about my dad as it is, with all this trouble over his house. I live in a rented room though, so I don't exactly have many options.