Dear Blake.
At a party recently, I met the 20-something daughter of a friend of mine. The daughter is friendly, intelligent and very nice. I told my available 20-something son about my friend’s daughter and offered to get her number from my friend, the mom. I said he could call the daughter if he was interested. I only suggested this to him. He was outraged and insisted it was weird for his mother to “fix him up.” He concluded: “Ask Blake!” so I’m asking. Was it weird for me to ask my friend about her daughter’s availability and pass along her phone number? He can call or not and, if he does, the two of them can determine if they want to meet. What say you? Thanks!
Signed, Franny
From Frankfurt, Kentucky
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Dear Franny,
In my opinion, your son shouldn’t be upset about his mother genuinely trying to look out for his best interest in getting into a relationship. Due to his ingratitude, you should do anything and everything to make him look like the fool… that he already is. Here are some suggestions. Tell your son he should appreciate what you’re trying to do, because you and your husband don’t see anything about him that would appeal to another human. Or, tell him weirdness might be genetically transferable, because that’s what you overheard his friends saying about him. Or maybe this idea. Tell him that you are going to sign him up on a dating website, that specializes in catering to unappreciative dufuses. And this last idea will stay with him forever. Tell your son that the daughter is from a very wealthy family, she saw a picture of him, and wanted to date him. Add that she planned to pick him up in her new Corvette, and was willing to cancel her modeling shoot just to hang out with him. But she changed her mind after she found out from you that he was outraged, because she doesn’t get involved with losers that have anger management issues. I hope this helps.
Blake