stunt_muppet

So, facepalm one comes when my parents and I are sitting around watching Criminal Minds (a review of which is coming shortly). My entire family is made up of crime drama addicts; we sit around almost every day of the week and watch something like that. As such, my parents know about and are conversant in my CSI and L&O fandoms. 

Now, I forget how exactly this came up, but we started talking about CSI: Miami for some reason, and as we did, I made some offhand mention about how I was displeased with some plot development and I was going to be ignoring it in subsequent fanfiction.

Cue my parents (my dad, specifically) turning to me and saying "I didn't know you were writing CSI: Miami fanfiction."

Me:...

Mom: "You really need to start pursuing a wider audience, hun."

Me: ...*facepalm* (See, I never told them about my Miami fanfic habit, nor about my pechant for H/M fluff)

Now that wasn't so bad; for some reason it was just slightly embarrassing having my parents find out about my fanfic guilty pleasure. The next facepalm was far more humiliating. And, as always, I have nobody to blame for my humiliation but myself.

Me *talking about some SVU icon* : See, this person made a great icon, but they left out the best part of the quote.

Dad: really? What was it?

Me: The icon is "This takes me back to the Easter Egg hunts of my youth." "...your family's Jewish." But the entire exchange is: "This reminds me of the Easter egg hunts of my youth." "Your family's Jewish. Your parents hid Easter eggs?" "Exactly. All those futile hours of searching..."

Dad: *laughs*

Me: I know. It's pretty much my favorite Munchism ever.

Dad: And of course, you've memorized the Munchisms.

Me:...*thinking: oops*

Mom: See, I don't get it. It's not *Stabler* she's interested in, who's kind of studly and handsome - 

Me: Who said I wasn't interested in Stabler? I've very interested in Stabler.

Mom: - It's the skinny, kind of creepy, old guy.

Me: Munch is not creepy. And I never said I wasn't interested in Stabler.

Mom: His name's Chris Meloni, dear.

Me: I *know* that, Mom.

*That* was by far more embarrassing.