Are you shy about .....

Were you shy about smoking in front of your folks when

you were an adult? Especially after living in another state

and started smoking after you left home?  How long did

it take you before you smoked in front of them?

My father quit smoking before I moved back to R.I.

but my mother smoked until the day she died. So

it shouldn't have been a big deal. Yet after I moved

back to the same town my folks lived in... I could

not smoke in front of them.  It wasn't them.. it was me.

When my mother found out I smoked.. she laughed.

Why not, she asked.. you are an adult.  Guess because

there is a saying.. as long as your mother is alive

you will always be a kid, applies here.

Then there is walking into a liquor store. In Idaho

we have liquor store, you don't buy hard liquor

in the groceries stores.  You can buy beer, or wine

but that is it.

There is something about walking into a liquor

store, that freaks me out.. So I go in, get what

I need and back out as fast as I can.  What the

heck is up with that. It isn't like I go often.. about

one ...maybe twice a year.  We have bottles of

different types, in the outside refrigerator that

we have had for years.. Neither of us are big in

the way of hard liquor.  A beer or two in the summer

with dinner or friends at a bar b que.. maybe

a glass of wine with friends or my s-i-l.

But hard liquor like Kailua or something similar,

it is a fast in and out.  Heck I am 75 years old

and I never bought when I was under age..

I don't get it.