So this Moment for Us isn't very profound or me ranting - but it's a funny story involving my mother's common sense (or lack of in this case) and I have to tell it if only to embarass her :) I meant to tell it when it happened, but it slipped my mind. It was when my Dad and I were going off to Baltimore and we stopped by their house to get lunch before we went to the airport.

I had a splitting headache and was all out of medicine, and I knew that my mom's pharmacy of vitamins and pills (mostly outdated from lack of use) would have something to fix me. Well first she pulls out this massive I-got-it-at-Sam's bottle of aspirin. I informed her that it wouldn't fit in my purse and more to the point - i didn't want to check it as baggage. Dad suggests another bottle to put them in, but mom already has a fine plan that she wants me try. Before I know it, she has put these aspirin in a baggie and is offering it to me. At first I thought it was a joke. I can't believe what she has done - hasn't she seen an episode of cops? or even some after school special no matter how outdated?

She sees my point after Dad starts laughing and smacking his head and disbelief. Not to worry, she is going to label them ASPIRIN on the bag so in case I get searched, the security guards will know what they are, believe the label - and let me go without the mortifying body cavity search. I quickly push the bag from her and we find an appropriate bottle to put the pills in - reminding her that her solution could have cost me an arrest and thus making her look bad. After the point was made about her reputation possibly being marred, she understood.

Now my mom isn't a ditz - she just wasn't thinking. She just assumed that since I know it's aspirin, that everyone else will take my word for it. Kinda like when i upload the wrong index page in the wrong directory and don't have the right one to copy it over with me. We all get dippy sometimes, this moment was just going to be more headaches than others.

"You know what the scary part of that was?" says Dad - after we get to the car.

"She might have labeled them incorrectly?" I joke.

"No, it's that if it were her flight and she was in that predicament without us to stop her, she would have used that baggie (unlabeled too ) without a care in the world" replied Dad.

Given Mom's way of thinking, he's right, and that is scary.