What member of the Triad are you?
Pick the answer that most describes you.
1) What do you carry in the trunk of your car?
Jazzercise Tapes
A Fire Extinguisher
A chisel to remove cookie snot from the leather seats in the Rover.
Lots of baggage
Do-it-yourself DNA mini Lab in case I meet a stranger who looks like me
An axe and a change of underwear
A copy of The Primal Wound and a can of gasoline
Stadium Pal
Matches
Motorcycles and trailers don't have trunks!
You are oppressing me as a natural mother!!!
A bat
An adoption attorney
$40,000 in cash....
P.S. we have a lovely, safe SUV with a baby seat just waiting for your baby!
A change of license plates
A credit card machine
A dozen pre-notarized relinquishment contracts
Lots of cash
An EPT test
A rabbit if the EPT test is negative
A hatchet to kill the damn rabbit if it won't die.
Guilt...lots of guilt
Cement blocks for weighing down file cabinets that contain adoptee records
Duct tape
More duct tape
Colored duct tape.
2) What are the staples in your fridge?
Makings for a Jimmy Carter Casserole
Viva low-fat cottage cheese
Pickle and Pimento Loaf
A selection of fine cheeses
Egg-beaters.
Other people's leftovers
Mad Dog 20/20
Something that looks like a rejected science project.
Government cheese and peanut butter
Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill...because the Merlot is stored in the garage.
NOT wine in a box!!
P.S. we have a nice stainless steel refrigerator filled with healthy snacks for our...er...your baby!
More license plates
I have to hide all that cash somewhere
Veal. Loads of veal.
Mayonnaise, bologna and white bread.
3) When is it acceptable to coerce your pregnant daughter into relinquishing her parental rights?
If the birthfather is stupid and ugly
If it makes you look bad to your meal ticket
Only if you can blame it on the resepshunist
Never
4) What are your favorite movies?
We prefer the theatre or the Opera. Our child is taking Opera lessons. On the pony.
Anything with Shirley Temple tap dancing her way into a fantasy adoptive home.
The Bad Seed
Firestarter
Natural Born Killers
Rosemary's Baby
The Other Mother
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Handmaid's Tale
Million Dollar Baby
The Baby Dance
Casa de los babys
P.S. We have a closet full of Disney, Sesame Street, and educational DVDs just waiting for your baby!
The Great Escape
Cheaper By The Dozen
Jerry MacGuire
Baby Boom
The Witches of Eastwick
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Arsenic and Old Lace
5) What are your favorite songs?
Anything by Crosby, Steals, Snatch em Young
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)
Chet Baker's version of "The Thrill is Gone"
Seasons in the Sun. Don't ask or I'll have to kill you.
Slave hand songs.....spirituals....Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Love Child
I saw it on the "Chapelle Show." It's called "I Want To Piss On You." That really spoke to me.
Sunny Came Home
Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw?
Anything by Joni Mitchell. She's the only one who understands how I feel.
Impossible Dream
Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It
Somewhere Out There
P.S. We have all the Baby Mozart CD's just waiting for your baby!
For The Love Of Money
Money, Money, Money
Money (That's What I Want)
The Devil Went Down To Georgia
It wouldn't be right of me to tell you, as that might be a breach of third party confidentiality.
6) How do you feel about Safe Havens?
They deprive fathers of their parental rights.
They strip the babies of all medical, genetic and familial history.
They encourage mothers to go without prenatal care, therefore endangering her health and the health of her unborn child.
Safe Havens are a tool of the adoption industry to insure non-bureaucratic placement in response to recent open-records legislation.
As long as it saves one baby, who gives a rat's ass about the rest?
7) When you entertain, what do you serve, from appetizer to dessert?
Some nice pigs-in-a-blanket holiday stew. We make it out of those baby beef sticks dyed red! Yummy--then we wrap them in seaweed (because we're health conscious), then we wrap bacon around the seaweed. Then you bake all of this in butterscotch pudding. It's to die for! And Bourbon. Lots of Bourbon.
Liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti, fftfftfftfftffft
Doobie, cheetos, another doobie, doritos, prozac with a doobie chaser, some tortilla chips, beer.
For dessert, "humble pie," because I'm supposed to be eternally grateful for my bmom's sacrifice and my aparents taking me into their home even though I'm a little bastard.
How dare you.. Why am I expected to just "role over" and disclose all? Why am I not respected?
The best of everything!
P.S. Our home is constantly filled with family and friends. In fact, every Sunday our parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews come to our house for dinner after Church. Yet with all the wonderful noise, light and love, there is still and empty place. Won't you help us fill it?
We only entertain clients at restaurants in states other than our own. *
*Food Costs Extra
As if anyone would come.
8) What is your ideal Saturday Night activity?
Rebirthing Therapy
Getting shit-faced and reading alt.adoption. I just can't get enough angst!
Getting shit-faced and mistaking the ottoman for the toilet.
Getting shit-faced and setting the kitchen on fire while making grilled cheese.
Getting shit-faced.
Spending time on various support boards and email lists, talking to other women whose babies were abducted. They really understand what I am going through.
Trying one last time.
P.S. Our house has a cozy fireplace (with a babyguard!) and we love to curl up in front of it on weekends with Bingo, our child-friendly Golden Retriever. Yet something is missing...our baby. YOUR baby. Won't you help us complete our family circle?
Counting my money
Arranging dates for minor females
Rigging EPT test kits for false positives
Replacing the illegal "I CAN HELP YOU ADOPT REAL QUICK" ads I put up last Saturday that the iVillage Parenting Board moderators keep taking down.
It wouldn't be right of me to tell you and that might be a breach of third party confidentiality.
9) What movie was Christopher Walken NOT in?
Pulp Fiction
The Country Bears
The Dead Zone
Who Shot Roger Rabbit?
Who is Christopher Walken and what does he have to do with adoption?
10) What are your favorite gifts?
We don't send gifts. We already got the kid. Oh, you mean for us?
Anything made by my child.
That pony I'm still waiting for.
I didn't give the ADOPTERS a gift. Rather, I gave MY CHILD the gift of parents. Except they're not parents and never will be.
The one our birthmother will give us.
Gifts Cost Extra
Canadian Cheese and Quackers.
When you can rip a newborn from its teen-aged, loving but confused and easily coerced mother, every day is Christmas!
11) What are your favorite books?
Little Golden Adoption Books.
Lemony Snickett's "A Series of Unfortunate Events"
Why Birthdays Aren't Important
How To Find Your Own Inner Daddy
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
7 Steps To Nighttime Dryness
Nice Girls Do
How To Build Your Own Dungeon and Idiots Guide to Midwifing at Home
Safe Havens Can Save You
How to Buy Your Baby Abroad
P.S. We are voracious readers, and education is so important to us. We already have a complete library waiting for your baby -- from Mother Goose to the Little House books to the entire Harry Potter series. We are looking forward to bedtime stories with your baby, curled in our laps as we cuddle in a rocking chair.
How to Assume a New Identity
The Fact Book III
Wake Up Little Susie -- for the nostalgia factor