I discovered that Millennials have a truly interesting way of determining most favored child status (similar to MFN, but with children). As my kids were growing up, I enjoyed their truly different personalities and time spent with both of them. They are very different people, and I did my best to balance my time, often joking that the eldest is my favorite son, and youngest, my favorite daughter. So, imagine my surprise when my son laughed at a text he received while he was visiting me for a long weekend. I asked what was up and he said that he had messaged his sister about the seeming throne to her achievements in my guest bedroom. Admittedly, I have several pictures from her time at Alabama and even a formal family portrait from a past Christmas of her, my son-in-law and grandson. When he told her she must be the favorite, she countered that the pictures of him are in my bedroom. So, clearly, he is superior. He then said that the key question is who is the password child? I laughed – what does that mean? He said that in Tech, when asking people about who their favorite child is, they’ll always say they love them equally. However, he’ll press and say, ‘But which one is the password child?’ I guess people often use their kids’ names as passwords. Apparently, some time ago I was using my daughter’s initials and a combination of numbers for my password, so she’s obviously the favorite – lol.
Later, we were talking about movies and television shows, and I was commenting on how frustrating it was that I paid for Apple TV, Disney+ and Prime, but still had to pay to see specific shows I wanted to watch. I mentioned a TV series that a colleague had recommended, and he said he’d load it on his Plex server. We then talked about the Plex server and that during the pandemic, it was getting so much use that it had trouble keeping up. Therefore, he was checking to see who all was accessing it. It turns out that he and his sister were monitoring my choice of movies I watched, and it included ‘Fifty Shades of Gray.’ Embarrassing, eh? Note to self, keep the Plex movies I select ‘clean’ so as not to generate interesting conversations between my adult children. But, as a ‘grown a** adult,’ I am not apologizing for watching a movie based on a book series I read. I must point out that while the movies were entertaining, the books were better.
