A Convention-going Colleague's Stories (2 of 2): Radical parenting.

That same colleague also was saying that his parents were both hippies and his mother a radical at Berkeley, and that every once in a while he gets bummed at the state of things and starts telling them how their generation "elected Reagan, twice."

"Fuck you, buster!", his mom is usually like, "I was at People's Park!"

Occasionally, too, she'll mix it up and be like, "Fuck you, buster, I was gassed by Reagan!" (i.e., when Reagan was governor of California).

Isn't that just the best parental response ever?

"Fuck you, buster, I was at People's Park!".

That "fuck you, buster!" is such a great stock line.  The 'buster' really mellows out the 'fuck you' and makes it come off as cute. 

It makes me like his mom a lot.