agesilaus wrote:
Under no circumstances would we allow an opposite sex friend. But that would depend on you off course.
My college girlfriend (now my wife) asked me if I was ready to meet her folks. Seemed fine to me.
As the getaway weekend got closer, I asked her what kind of clothes to pack: would we be going out to dinner, etc.?
She laughed and told me, "No. We aren't going
home to see them. We're meeting them out in the desert to camp. And by the way, you can ride a motorcycle, can't you?"
I slept on the floor of their moho and learned that my girlfriend was a bada$$ on a dirt bike. My theory that "if she can, I can" was so wrong. She humbled me, and I rode in the rear with the moms and the kids. Years later, she told me that the real test was how I dealt with it when I wiped out on the hillclimb and ran into a joshua tree. If I'd thrown a tantrum, that would have been it. But I stood up and laughed, spent a few minutes trying to start the bike on a steep slope, and took a few more tries to finally get up the hill.
I'm just glad her parents allowed an opposite sex college kid in their RV back then.
