Taking My Girlfriend to Meet My Parents.

2007/01/02 18:40

Happy New Year’s everyone.

So.

Let’s get started with the first update of the year.

It’ll be shorter than usual, but such is life.

My parents are currently living in America due to their work situation.

The transfer came out of the blue last summer,

but they’ve grown used to life over there in the meantime,

and it sounds like they’re quite enjoying themselves.

Last fall,

I received an e-mail from my father.

SUBJECT:	Re:
BODY:	I’d like to meet your girlfriend sometime. You should bring her here over the holidays. We’ll put up the travel expenses, of course.
	Dad
ME:	……

I froze, message open.

… Well, all right, I did have an inkling that this might happen sooner or later.

… But this is a little too far on the “sooner” side, Dad.

I turned around and called out to Y-ko, who was organizing materials on her laptop.

ME:	Can I ask you something, Y-ko?
Y-KO:	Sure. What’s up?
ME:	My parents are asking me to introduce you to them over the New Year.
Y-KO:	… Me? Meet them?
ME:	That’s right.
Y-KO:	… Aren’t your parents in America right now?
ME:	Well, yes.
Y-KO:	…… Umm.
ME:	……?
Y-KO:	There’s one big problem.
ME:	Yes?
Y-KO:	I don’t know if I can introduce myself in English!
ME:	……… Huh?

—Do I really want to go through with this?