Hahahaha. My parents were particularly religious though. They were just weirdly conservative. If was odd. They both have a sort of disdain for a lot of religious beliefs yet think those types of Christians are the best, most moral people. Yet those Christians were always getting themselves into some sort of trouble or causing some sort of drama, like the time half the plant my dad worked for got arrested for 'getting on the boat'. It was some sort of pyramid gambling scheme being run by the Baptist church. Half the town got arrested / hauled in for questioning. The police had to schedule the arrests so they could handle the processing and so the entire town didn't have to shut down.

And I got reamed over it on two sides (parents and church members) for not falling for the bullshit and standing against a grown man at 13. "Hysterical", they said. "Disrespectful", they said. "Rude" and "bitch" were also thrown around.

That was one of those "the ballad of the teenage girl is really the ballad of a dumb ass society" situations.

And look who had his ass hauled off to jail in the end. Mmnhmm. That still pisses me off.

Another thing, my mom always used to hound me over not dating much as a teenager and she'd say, "why don't you go out with that nice boy, CR, he's in church every Sunday."

Yeah. Because I enjoyed living and he wasn't that nice. He totaled 6 cars before graduation, knocked 2 freahman girls up, did drugs, was casually mean to the campus birds, bulloee underclassmen, and I suspect he was the Senior building locker thief.

Parents and teachers loved him because he was in church every Sunday and he put on, pandering to their ego trips over being authority figures.

No way in hell I was ever going to get in a car with that fool.

I completely agree with your grandma about those religious types. She and I would have gotten along well.

I totally would have gotten you in trouble though. And not the sort of trouble you were used to, like pilfering alcohol and getting drunk in the park.