QotD: "Mom, You're EMBARRASSING Me!"
What did your parents do when you were a child that mortified you?
Oh good God-- do you REALLY want me to answer this one?
I'm sure the author is asking about quirks and idiosyncrasies about their parent's behavior in public, more especially when it seemed uncool or very less than hip. But for anyone that's grown up in a dysfunctional family, they'll know that there's usually a facade of normalcy that usually crumbles in private. As behaviors become worse and more damaging, the more secret they tend to be.
And see, I didn't see the title first. "Embarrassing" is a fairly innocuous word. But to go overboard then with a word like "mortified", well, sorry, that's the first thing I thought of-- that thing that seemed normal to me until trusted friends told me very specifically that it was not.
It's mentioned here, but it's certainly not public.
Crossposted to LJ, to show the users have had it good with Writer's Block questions that are much better written as of late.