The Day I Realized I Was Turning Into My Mother

It happens to all of us — despite our best efforts.

It was my sophomore year of college and I was sitting in my Intro to Psychology class watching the clock with my classmates. It was twelve minutes after the start of class and our teacher had yet to show up.

We all knew the rule: if an instructor was more than 15 minutes late, class was canceled.

Suddenly the teacher came rushing in, looking visibly upset. She dropped her coat on her chair, sat on her desk and looked out at us with a serious expression. “I’m sorry I’m late class, but something terrible happened!”

I thought for sure she was going to tell us someone died, or she’d had a car accident, but instead she wailed, “I was putting on my coat and my mother’s hand came out of my sleeve.”

We all looked at her in confusion. Her voice rose even more.

“You don’t understand. I’m only 40 and I have my mother’s hands now. I’m getting old and I’m turning into my mother!” That poor woman was so upset she could scarcely focus for the rest of class.

I was thinking about one time when my friend and I went to an event about an hour away from where we live. “We have to stop at Seven Brides for lunch,” I said to my long-suffering friend multiple times. “I need to get that roasted root vegetable salad they have there, it’s my favorite.”

Now before you judge me, I don’t normally wax poetic over a salad. I hate lettuce. To me, a salad is merely a vehicle for nutrients. But years ago I’d stopped at this restaurant after a hike in the nearby waterfall area and feeling virtuous, I ordered the roasted root vegetable salad that changed my opinion on salads forever.

It was a plate full of roasted root vegetables in a delicious vinaigrette, on a bed of quinoa. It was so awesome. No lettuce, no tasteless cucumbers, just delicious root vegetables, toasted on the outside, soft and sweet on the inside. So yummy.

Ever since then, whenever I’m in the area, which is about once a year, I stop and get that salad. With a delicious IPA, of course.

My friend and I stopped at the restaurant for a late lunch on our way out of town and when…

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