They Just Seem a Little Weird: Quirks Inherited from Your Parents

I once took one of those "where does your accent place you?" quizzes, and it gave me "Philadelphia" and "Northern Virginia" as the answer, which happens to be exactly where my parents grew up, respectively. It was pretty uncanny.

One less passive thing I got from my dad was a love of '50s rock and roll (makes sense) but also his love of reggae (no idea how that got on his radar). From my mom (probably), a tendency toward rambling anecdotes.

i met my mom once and i could see etches of her face's contours in mine

i started talking to my dad as an adult and my stepmom says me and him say a couple of the same phrases, despite never having lived together ever, which i find odd

i could never relate to anyone in my family, though, and i always felt like an alien among them

one funny thing is my best friend is from england, so some of his pronunciation rubbed off on me because we would spend so much time together

Some fifteen years after my mom bought me one as a gift (to which I was indifferent), I started picking up the fountain pen habit. Like her, I'm almost invariably up for an hour or two reading in the middle of the night.

Like my Dad, I floss my teeth in front of the computer before going to bed.