see where i get it from? SEE?

[mistressindi]

Bleu emailed me suggesting that we join forces and make my mom a cake for her birthday. I am totally in favor of this idea, since I can't come up with any good birthday stuff to do for her. Bleu then pointed out that the thing to do would be to figure out my mother's favorite kind of cake. I didn't know, so I asked. She was doing the dishes, so of course the water could not be turned off and we could not actually look at each other while we spoke. It was a very loud and confused conversation, which went like this:

Me: "Ma, what's your favorite kind of cake?"
She: "I don't know. What's yours?"
Me: "Red velvet, but that's not the point. What do you like?"
She: "I don't know. Why are you asking?"
Me: "Bleu wants us to make a cake for your birthday."
She: "She wants to make a cake for what?"
Me: "WHO ELSE HAS A BIRTHDAY COMING UP?"
She: [happily] "Oh! Me!"
Me: "Yes, and part of making you a cake is knowing what kind you like. So, what kind do you like?"
She: ".... COCONUT!"
Me: "Bzuh? I didn't know you liked coconut cake."
She: "I didn't either."
Me: "Wait, what?"
She: "WHAT?"
Me: "YOU LIKE COCONUT CAKES?"
She: "YES."
Me: "SINCE WHEN?"
She: "SINCE ALWAYS."
Me: "WE'VE NEVER HAD A COCONUT CAKE."
She: "BUT I LIKE THEM."

So there you go. Coconut. As big of a nut as my mom is. That's fitting.