Hellobee Boards

In middle school I was constantly mortified by them. Then again, who isn't in middle school? My mom was a very loud cheer-er at my sporting events, and I was always the worst one on the time.

I realized in high school that they were just being normal parents, ha. Got over it pretty quickly.

Not really..my mom could be at times. Mostly when she was trying to act like the cool mom and it backfired. When she didn't try so hard, she was awesome.

My dad was (is) ridiculous. He used to run a news/city website that would have a live web show on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, complete with hosts/hostesses on the weekend (interviewing drunk people, etc). He usually left the hosting to pretty girls, but during Halloween, Mardi Gras, any special event he'd dress up...as a jester, as a woman, one year as Britney Spears...plaid skirt and pigtail wig and all. Seriously.

He was like that off-camera, too. More than once when I was working on a paper in high school he would bust in wearing a brightly colored wig and black lipstick (which he was forever trying to get me to wear) and playing air guitar. I could only raise an eyebrow at him.

I wouldn't say it embarrassed me, exactly (although it certainly had the potential to). It was just his personality. I think I'd have rather had that then just an ordinary boring dad, ha.