Part 1:

Me: Tell me.

Mom: Tell you what?

Me: Tell me, anything.

Mom: I said everything.

Me: Tell me again.

[Silence]

Me: Tell me your opinion?

Mom: My opinion about what?

Me: Don’t answer my question with another question.

Mom: Your question is wrong.

Me: It’s wrong?

[Silence]

Me: What is your opinion?

Mom: It’s positive.

Me: What is your opinion about Mahsa?

Mom: Which Mahsa?

Me: Any Mahsa.

Mom: But which one?

Me: It really doesn’t matter.

Mom: Mahsa as in Sheeva’s sister?

Me: No not that Mahsa.

Mom: Then which one?

Me: Another Mahsa.

Mom: Mahsa, Saeed’s daughter?

Me: Yes that one.

Mom: She is nice.

Me: What’s nice about her?

Mom: She’s a nice person.

Me: How is she doing?

Mom: I have no idea.

Me: What does she look like?

Mom: Mahsa?

Me: Yes.

Mom: She looks like her mom.

Me: Not who she looks like, but what does she look like.

Mom: She has a round face, tanned skin.

Me: What happened to her?

Mom: What do you mean, what happened?

Me: What happened?

Mom: She got married.

Me: When?

Mom: Last year, the year before.

Me: With who?

Mom: I don’t know.

Me: How come?

Mom: I don’t know.

Me: You mean she fell in love?

Mom: I don't know if she fell in love.

Me: People get married without falling in love?

Mom: I don’t know.

Me: Did it ever occur to you?

Mom: Yeah.

Me: Then why don’t you ask?

Mom: Ask who?

Me: Me.

Mom: Ask what?

Me: You said it occurred to you.

Mom: What?

Me: You just said it had occurred to you.

Mom: Yeah.

Me: So ask me.

Mom: Ask you what?

Me: You have the question, you can't ask me what question you want to ask.

Mom: I don’t have a question.

Me: I asked whether it occurred to you if people get married without falling in love.

Mom: Yes.

Me: So ask.

Mom: [Frustrated] It didn't happen.

 

Part 2:

Mom: Your feet are cold.

Me: The house is cold.

Mom: Are the windows open?

Me: I’m not sure [Laughs].

Mom: Why are you laughing?

Me: Nothing.

Mom: When do you have to wake up tomorrow?

Me: Wake me up at 10:30.

Mom: I will not be home at 10:30.

Me: Where will you be?

Mom: I will be walking.

[Silence]

Mom: What are you laughing at?

Me: I don’t remember.

Mom: Did you speak with your dad?

Me: We spoke yesterday.

Mom: Why did you not speak today?

Me: We will speak tomorrow. 

[Silence]

Me: What did dad do today?

Mom: He went to his mother’s house.

Me: What happened next?

Mom: Then he went home.

Me: What happened next?

Mom: His mom made food for him.

Me: With meat or without meat?

Mom: I don’t know.

Me: What happened after?

Mom: Then he went home.

Me: And then?

Mom: [Annoyed] Nothing. Then Nothing happened.

Me: How is that possible?

Mom: Then he slept.

Me: Are you sure?

Mom: Call him tomorrow and ask what happened.

Me: Tomorrow he might forget.

Mom: Yes.

Me: If he forgets how can he tell me?

Mom: I don’t know but you should follow up on that.

Me: When will dad come?

Mom: On Monday.

Me: When will dad leave?

Mom: Leave where?

Me: To his house.

Mom: This is his house.

Me: No, I mean the other house.

Mom: What other house?

 

Part 3:

Me: Where did you go?

Mom: I don't have time for this conversation.

Me: Come back, I don't want to sit alone at the table.

Mom: [Returns and sits]

Me: How are you?

Mom: I’m good.

Me: How is everything?

Mom: In the morning your uncle messaged me saying “Good morning” and I responded saying “Good morning”.

Me: What else did he say?

Mom: He didn’t respond.

Me: Are you upset?

Mom: About what?

Me: That he didn’t respond.

Mom: I didn’t say anything that needed a response, I just said “Good morning”.

Me: Well he should have said “Good morning” back to you.

Mom: But he was the one who said “Good morning” first.

Me: What is good morning?

Mom: It means to have a good morning.

Me: Did you have a good morning?

Mom: Yeah it wasn’t bad.

 

 

Part 4:

Me: What do you want from God?

Mom: I want health, happine… [Gets interrupted]

Me: No, don’t say the cliche things that everyone says.

Mom: I want from God that next year I can hopefully… [Gets interrupted]

Me: No no don’t say that either!

Mom: [Frustrated] You tell me what you want from God!

Me: For it to come quickly.

Mom: For what?

Me: That's the whole sentence. Now you say, what do you want from God?

Mom: For it to get cold.

Me: [Satisfied, excited] For it to come quickly and to get cold!