Me: "you cannot plug your hair dryer into my step down power converter"
Mom: [does it anyway]

Thankfully the result was "it doesnt work" and not "you broke my converter"

We were given sparkling water by our hotel yesterday. Mom doesn't like it. I'm fine with it. I put the one I had and my metal water bottle in my backpack carriers.

Mom gets a bottle of still water from the boat, puts it in my zippered bag. 2 minutes later she grabs the sparkling water (completely differentbottow shape ad color), opens it, drinks it, goes, "Ugh, I don't like this." And refuses to keep drinking it. And I'm not drinking it now.

Wanders into a sporting goods store that's obviously a sporting goods store and then is surprised.

Mom: Wants to go to a cafe but will only sit outside and will just walk through all of an indoors part of a cafe, with lots on indoors seating, then insist we cannot go there and now we're just walking back to the boat to get drinks on the boat.

EXCEPT WAIT I WAS WRONG. somehow should you spotted an outdoors bar area just off the quay next to the boat. 100% outdoors. Now in the outdoors bar, she complains about smoking. Because it is outdoors and its Europe. If you want no smoking sit inside.

Yells her order out in English: "WINE? GERMAN WINE? GOOD GERMAN WINE? I LIKE RED." Immediately starts asking questions of a man about her age next to her in English who is desperately trying to fumble friendly responses because he only learned Englishin the navy like 40 years ago.

Mom doesn't realize this place is cash only until I tell her it is. She has no Euros, but for some reason it has lots and lots of American Cash money? Luckily I got Euros an hour ago.

Heres some photos of the Black Forest and Briesach

I had a Turkish barber trim my beard. This alone keeps me sane.

i would have exploded by now so you're doing Real Well as far as I'm concerned

also looking hella sharp

I'm doing me best.

patience of a Saint frankly

Mom, at dinner with 4 other people at our table: The bathroom showers are so small. But he doesn't know that yet because he hasn't had a shower.
Me: Thanks for announcing my shower status to a table of people, mom.
Mom: So if something really smells...
Me: This is not a conversation I find appropriate to continue.

I'm Turkish barber beard trimmed

also, dinner: