Currently busting my sides to Doug Stanhope's
Digging Up Mother. I've never called my mom "mother" but now it feels entirely sensible. TBH any designation I've used for any adult member of my family that had any option always felt weird. My aunts and uncles were always just their names, my grandmother was always "meema" cause she's my grandmother and she gets called whatever I called her as a child, my grandfather was called "dad" until I realized it was weird to call your grandfather "dad" just cause you didn't have any other father figures in your life, but now I will make a total switch to calling the woman who ejected me "mother" if only because she won't be used to it. Sorry, mom, but comedy demands it.
