Things To Do When You Meet Your Significant Other’s Parents

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Jared Kushner demonstrates proper form when shaking hands with your significant other’s father.

BHS Blueprint Staff, Staff

 

Meeting the parents of your significant other can be extremely awkward.  Use these tips to be calm, confident, and make a great first impression.

  • Brag about how you pleaded down to a misdemeanor
  • Recite long passages of Fifty Shades of Grey from memory to demonstrate your knowledge of literature
  • Ask them for money
  • Refer to both parents as “bro”
  • Ask them where they keep their ashtray
  • Clog the toilet
  • Criticize the food
  • Explain why you were justified in dropping out of high school
  • Ask them if they serve breakfast or if you’re just on your own
  • Tell them that your job is a SoundCloud rapper
  • Ask them detailed questions about their home security system
  • Start by saying, “Well, I’m new to this, so I’m pretty much going to wing it.”
  • Punt their cat
  • Like Yoda you should speak
  • Bring them an ugly cactus
  • Ask them for their blessing
  • Answer all of their questions with sarcasm
  • Ask them if they can buy you prescription drugs
  • Answer your phone at dinner
  • Confidently correct they’re grammar wrong!
  • Tell them that your parents were anti-vaxxers