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That One Time I Took My Mom to a Frat Party

Alli Driscoll
Apr 20, 2015
Indiana University
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That One Time I Took My Mom to a Frat Party

Mom's weekend is my favorite holiday. It is a time where your mom cannot give you a curfew, tell you to stop drinking or force you to clean your room. Rather, it is a weekend where your Mom gets to relive her glory days, dance on elevated surfaces, and flashback to 25 years ago when she, too, was in a sorority.

My mom is not naïve to what goes down Thursday through Saturday, and on the occasional Tuesday. I mean, she was not only in college once, but she went to the Indiana University four score and many years ago. Julie, my mom, takes Btown: the sequel. Watch out everyone, she's back.

10:16 p.m. Julie takes her first pledge ride. “Hey, Mom, did you have pledge rides back in the day, or was it just horse and buggy?" I'm such a smart a**.

10:26 p.m. Julie walks into SAE. She screams, “Oh, my God, they're playing Abba!" Excuse me while I head straight to the bar.

10:31 p.m. Julie starts double fisting beers with Alli. The apple certainly doesn't fall far from the tree.

10:42 p.m. Julie says she found a Matthew McConaughey look alike. For the love of God, Julie, please don;t hit on him.

10:45 p.m. Julie removes her cardigan and starts swinging it around her head like a lasso. Did I mention she accidentally hit a pledge in the process?

10:46 p.m. Julie proceeds to do the YMCA on stage and almost knocks me off. K, mom, please don't break a hip.

10:47 p.m. I tweet a picture of my mom doing the YMCA on stage.

10:51 p.m. Julie says, “Wait, you call this an elevated surface?!"

11:25 p.m. Julie tells her life story to pledge ride, while she kicks up her feet in the backseat. Ugh, what a boss.

11:45 p.m. Julie walks to fraternity number two, and runs into my friends who just came home from their formal dance.It was the most awkward encounter of my life.

12:02 a.m. Julie barges into a fraternity and demands to know where her friends are. Power moves, only.

12:03 a.m. Julie indulges in a casual game of slap cup. Proceeds to ask another mom why she's so good.

12:12 a.m. Julie decides she has had enough of the frat life, decides it is time to retire.

12:16 a.m. Julie gets walked home from a nice fraternity gentleman.

12:18 am. Mom asks me if nice fraternity gentleman is single (face palm).

Until next time, Julie.

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