Thread by @ClaraJeffery

my 82 yo mom is here for a visit. she insisted on taking Bart from the airport. Once at 16th St (me: “always go to 24th!) the escalator was out. “The nice thing about being old is people will help you....”

Somebody carried her bag up the stairs, directed her to the bus.

Me: “you took the bus! How did you pay?”

Her: “they [the people helping her] told me no to worry about it, so I just got on.”

My 82 you mom fate jumped. Sorry, @sfmta_muni.

“Then I just asked the way to Mr Pickles...”

yes, she has a smart phone, but...

We just spent a very long time discussing this, from Milo’s health and human sexuality class...

It’s actually very helpful...

Then we got to here Milo’s reports on dolphins and Bruno Mars. (Sadly only one came with 3D art)

Then we discussed the poem that a Chinese immigrant scratched into the cell walls at Angel Island (if you haven’t heard of/read these, they are gutting)

Of course my mom brought galleys of her latest self-published historical novel

She also brought a box of tampons I left at her house at Christmas 🤣🤣

Mom and I watching Salt Fat Acid Heat and decided we’re all going to Japan next summer. Meantime...the newly minted kid graduates have asked to go to Benihana tonight 😹 @CiaoSamin @wendymac

Putting “getting grandma a new purse” on our list for the weekend. 😱👜

In all seriousness if somebody has a ref for an SF place to get an inexpensive, practical purse preferably with “two outside zipper pockets and divisions inside” please lmk

Also if you know how to research WWI Navy Purple Heart recipients...

Benihana!

Cc @bendreyfuss

Shopping online for a new purse for mom (see above). We look at one she worries might be too small—“you see sometimes it’s helps to be able to put a few cans of cat food in it...” 😹😹😹🙀

We decided to add babysitting a puppy into the madness. Here’s Cabbage with a side of Biscuit.

“This place seems ok?”

Puppies are very cute and very exhausting

I have set up my mom’s phone—she didn’t know how to find her email!—and gotten her hooked on @thememorypalace, my tech support work is done.

She practically cried when I showed her how to use audio command for Googling.

Going to seriously cut into the questions she bombards random strangers with.

mom: “What’s Roomba, is that like Zoom?”

@cb: “no...it’s a vacuum.”

Mom: “I thought it was pretty good I knew about Zoom.”

Cb: “we were impressed until...”

Me: “How DO you know about Zoom?”

Mom: “from my conferences with @350.”

Me:”ahhh, ok”

mom goes on to complain about excessive google docs