Accidentally convinced my mother I was kidnapped by an unfriendly foreign power.
So a few years ago, I was passing by a protest against Ahmadinejad and I decided to join in, and the crowd asked me to speak. “Mr. Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust happened, and denying makes you the criminal” I shout into the microphone, to loud screams of approval in Farsi.
My mother calls. “Hey, Imma, can’t talk, Iranians have me,” I say and hang up and close my phone so I can keep speaking.
I’ll pause for all my readers to roll their eyes.
Now, we’re Israeli. Even if Imma was raised mostly in the West, we are citizens of that fine country. And I have…a history of doing crazy things (I’m discussing only ONE of them here, there are ones I cannot discuss in public) so my mother begins panicking. While Iranians individually are lovely people, Israel and Iran are enemies politically, and her daughter is…very innocent at times and could be extremely naive.
Problem is, she’s getting on a flight to Israel and won’t have a phone for twelve hours. And she keeps calling. And thinking of the screams in Farsi. And my phone is off.
This is the part where people ask me if something is fundamentally wrong with my judgement. Why turn off my phone?
Because I didn’t want to be distracted. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
My mother was sure the next info she’d get of me is me bound and gagged, with a ransom demand for prisoner exchange.
I do feel sorta guilty about it now. I did scare her badly. Happily, she managed to track me down and find out I was fine.
I’m lucky she was in Israel, or I think she’d have gone nuclear on me.
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