#1: Being (kinda) roasted by my young adult daughter in front of … oh, I don’t know … 5 million people
Picture me relaxing with my morning coffee one Sunday in October (October 8, 2023, to be precise) and getting this in a team group text from my former staff director. “Shaunti – This was in today’s Morning Brew. Ummmm, please tell me this wasn’t you…”
I clicked the link and nearly spit out my coffee. I could not stop laughing.
Here’s what I read, in the ultra-popular Morning Brew news email seen by millions daily. (See red marks.)
Yes, unfortunately … that was me.
The kids LOVE telling their friends about the time that I, their utterly clueless mom, got an email from some nice lady named Denise Jonas. She said she loved For Women Only and then offered something like this: “My sons have a band and are touring in Atlanta. Would love to give you some tickets and backstage passes to meet them if you’d like.” I thought to myself, “That is so kind of her! Shoot, I wish I wasn’t so behind on my book deadline. I should probably be good and stay home.”
I didn’t mention it to the kids because at the time, I had no idea who the Jonas Brothers were. (In my defense, I think it was a bit earlier than 2008, and thus the kids hadn’t yet watched Camp Rock or been aware of their appearances on Disney.)
I knew I was in trouble, not long after that, when I saw a news story with throngs of screaming kids and teens celebrating these rising superstars.
At some point a few years later, when my daughter and her cousins were in middle school, they were going on about how much they LOVED the Jonas Brothers, and I had to come clean. Instant angst! And a family legend was born.
So here I am, back in the modern era, with a 23-year-old daughter who decides to submit an answer to a Morning Brew question – and apparently the Morning Brew people loved it as much as she did. She didn’t use my name, so only people who knew the unique way we spelled her first name would recognize who she was talking about. But it was so clever and hilarious I had to share it. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how our text thread went when I discovered what she had done.
As my former staff director put it, “Bwaaaahhh!!! Busted! And now only, I dunno, 4-5 million other people know!���”
See? I told you. I am a lot.
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