Meeting the In-Laws

47 Replies
PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast

125 years ago, the room was filled with Vanderbilts, Carnegies and Rockefellers.  Now it’s a top restaurant. 

I looked forward to meeting my future in-laws there.

The jeans were out of place, as were the comments about the chandelier of broken dishes.  The loud laughter at the sommelier was more embarrassing than them using the wrong forks, as was their pointing at the French Ambassador’s wife’s hat.

When the manager approached, I thought he’d ask us to leave.

To my surprise, he knew Tina’s parents by name.

As we left, “Pops” said, “Next time I’ll take you some place nice.”

***

word count = 100

Friday Fictioneers is hosted by  Rochelle Wisoff-Fields.  This week’s prompt is here and uses a photo by @ © Jennifer Pendergast. If you want to join or see other stories, go to the inlinkz linkup.

47 thoughts on “Meeting the In-Laws”

    1. trentpmcd Post author

      Humans are interesting. There is a fine line between bucking the establishment and being rude. I think Larry McMurtry was on the positive side of that line, but I am not too sure about the in-laws here…

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply ↓
    1. trentpmcd Post author

      Have you seen the original Blues Brothers movie? i wanted to have him using the water glass for wine instead of the forks, but not enough words ;) You are right, Pops may have known exactly what he was doing (like that scene in the Blues Brothers movie…)

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply ↓
    1. trentpmcd Post author

      I don’t disagree – as “elmowrites” said, it can be seen as people who are at the level of privilege that they can do anything they want, their privilege allows them to be super rude and the people around them can just smile and nod their heads. On the other hand, some people can be a bit stuffy and self-important, and sometimes it can be nice for someone to point out that the emperor has no clothes. Perhaps they are popping other people’s self-important balloons.
      (I’m just glad that I wasn’t really there ;) ).

      Like

      Reply ↓
  17. elmowrites

    Haha, you’ve captured the level of privilege that allows one *not* to fit in and still to belong. Sounds like he’s made a decent impression, but I’m not sure how it’ll go in the future.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply ↓
    1. trentpmcd Post author

      Thanks. yes, there is that level of privilege where you can do pretty much anything, which has a good side and a bad side… I think how it goes depends on how much of it Tina has inherited – if she is like her parents, he might find a rocky road ahead!

      Like

      Reply ↓

Express Yourself

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s