Comments | summerless_year: could you tell us apart?

summerless_year

could you tell us apart?

Sep 09, 2006 10:24

When I was a little girl, I would walk home from elementary school, walk in the front door, and call my mother. I lived in Brooklyn, and she worked in "the city" (Manhattan), and liked to know for sure that I had gotten home safely. What she would do had I not is beyond me, but from a very young age, I was schooled in the proper way to request my ( Read more... )

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diabla_traviesa September 9 2006, 18:45:31 UTC

I have the same problem, but in my case it’s people not being able to tell mom and I apart on the phone.

Dad also sounds like his brother, his sister and his mother. That’s weird.

summerless_year September 10 2006, 02:49:51 UTC

that is weird (the second part). Cute Linus, btw!

clarabr September 10 2006, 00:31:47 UTC

I'm glad I only have a brother! My mom always replies with "oi, queridA", which can only be me. Well, and the doggies, but they don't call our mom on the phone.

summerless_year September 10 2006, 02:49:28 UTC

but it's only because they don't know how. Otherwise they surely would!

e11en September 10 2006, 14:12:18 UTC

Haha! I thought to myself while reading this, hmmm, maybe that's why my mother's reply when I call and say, "Hi Mom!" has always been, "hello dear!" Perhaps she needs a few more words to be able to tell which of us five girls it is. These days she is helped out by caller id though so she usually answers already knowing it's me.

I don't think we sound alike but people calling my mom's house when we are all there (like holidays and such) are never sure who they have reached and many will just start talking, thinking we are our mother. This happened to me a lot when I lived with my mom in between this and that job. Probably complicating matters is that I made the recording for her answering machine and it is still my voice on her machine, even though I haven't lived there for over seven years.