MOM is WOW upside down!

A few months ago my mom and I were on a bit of a roadtrip for 15 hours...alone...with mom. As such you can imagine the insanity of being stuck in car with your mother for that long brings. I grasped for topics to talk about; I can talk for days, but after a few hours your throat gets dry and so does your wit... Anyway, Second Life came up. I went into all the sordid details of the metaverse known as Second Life. From furries, to sex shops, to men being women (hey, it's my mom!) Well I didn't tell her ALL the sordid details, or really ANY... I think I mostly stuck to how I DJ in world, ride elephants and make dresses. Somehow this conversation struck a chord with her...and in my midst of trying to pass the time in the claustrophobic car.. the world ended. All it took were the words uttered by my mother.."Wow, I'd like to try Second Life." The look of horror on my face was only comparable to that of a 13 year old realizing mom and dad are chaperoning the 8th grade dance... or various other teenage angsty horror stories. On the upside...my mom was only half serious. Apparently she is going to hold off the grid, and the possibility of "chilling with my avatar homeys" until her retirement, years from now. But the thought of my MOTHER joining my sacred world of the grid, somehow horrified me... and this made me think of how we all would breach this subject with an interested parent.

I mean, a lot of people who I am friends with on SecondLife® are old enough to be my mom or dad.. So why this big of a deal?

I'll tell you, it's the thought of this:

"Average" Mom* by Day:


"Average" Mom by NIGHT:


And that thought...keeps me thoroughly creepified enough to hope my mom never joins Second Life.

Oh, btw, I dedicate this entry to a close Second Life friend of mine, whose mother just joined Second Life. Godspeed friend, godspeed.


*note: not my mom, some random google image I found when searching "mom"..although she looks reallll cool. heh.