LOL @ SG.

thanks for the giggle.

Maybe it's when the parents force a straight wedding on the gay son? Rumor has it that my in-laws, still in severe denial about their obviously gay son, once informed him and his female roommate that they did not approve of this "living in sin" they were doing, and insisted they get married. Not even the accidental discovery of gay porn in the apartment could convince them they were really just roommates.

Now that is funny.

Provided you don't stop to think how it is messing up the poor guy's life.

Oh that was like 15 years ago--after the father passed away the mother sort of accepted reality. A boyfriend or two has even come for Christmas. They are just his "friend," but they do get token presents.

Reminds me of a story - no idea where I read it, it might be apocryphal, it might have been set out as truth.

A mother visits her gay son, who has not come out to her yet. He lives with his lover in a two bedroom flat, one single and one double room. He tells her that he will be sleeping on the sofa for the duration of her visit, giving up the single bed in his bedroom.

After she leaves, his flatmate notices a set of very valuable silver spoons are missing. They check and check, but they are definitely gone. The only person through the door recently (apart from them) is the mother.

Horribly embarrassed, the son calls and says, "Mum I'm so sorry to ask, but did you by chance take our silver spoons?"

"No." Says Mum. "They're right where I left them, under your duvet. Anything you'd like to tell me son?"

I don't get it. Sorry.

She left them under the bed spread in her Son's room, which he never uses.

I've amended two words, but I don't think they really mattered.

The story is that the Mum suspects the son is gay, but he has never told her.
When she leaves, she puts a valuable item in the bed her son supposedly sleeps in. Her suspicions are confirmed when he does not discover them - ie that he is sleeping in the double bed in the other room, with the person he claims just to be a flatmate ("roomie" I think you'd say).

It's not supposed to be funny. Just a tale of how a wily mother gets her son to admit something he was previously scared to do.

ETA - Griff got there first.

got it.