Parents, Love, and the South: Eavesdropping

1: My dad's cool. My mom-
2: I just told my parents, 'Oh God, I'm glad it's starting to sink in.'
1: Yeah, still fine.
2: She just told her parents. Handed me the phone right after she told her dad. I'm terrified.
3: I would be too.
1: No! He wanted to say hi.
2: Cool, sounds like a nice gy.
1: He's my favorite parent. I didn't make her talk to my mom. That would've been worse.
2: My dad's birthday is next week.
3: My dad's birthday is today. I didn't even get to say 'Hi' because he's in Africa, so I sent a Facebook message to my mom, like 'Oh, Mom, tell Dad happy birthday for me.' [She laughs.]
2: What's your dad doing in Africa?
3: Well, they're there.
2: Like for pleasure?
3: Well, they were supposed to go last year at this time, but...
1: My parents never just go to Africa
3: Well, my mom's a travel agent, so she knows like when to go and how to go, and they were just-
1: It's summertime there right now, huh?
3: Yeah. -Than they were supposed to go at this time last year, bt we had some family situation to take care of.
2: Yeah, I understand.
...
2: When I made my first status post about my girlfriend -It was something like, 'I'm meeting up with my girl,' or something like that- my mom told me, 'You don't need to have something like that on Facebook.
1: My mom and I aren't Facebook friends, but I am friends with some really Southern cousins and aunts and uncles, so I'm just not planning to be on Facebook for a few days.
3: If I was going to say I was doing something with my girlfriend, I would never post it on Facebook just because of the fact of where I live, and it wouldn't even be the fact of me, but it's the fact that my family would be ostracized by everyone. 'Cause I mean, I live in Red Palm Beach, Tennessee. It's like the Southern Pride Capital and Republican Pride Capital of Tennessee, and it's the place where the Klan began. I mean, my neighbor, she was looked down upon because she started dating a black man. You'd never hear of that being done here.
...[The three pass around a picture on a phone.]
2: I love Deviantart.
1: How did they do that?
2: They probably wore the paint and added the smoke in with Photoshop.
3: Deviantart can be so fun to browse through.
2: Although sometimes I wish I had the maturity filter on.
3: Yeah, I've been there. There are some things my mind cannot unsee to save my life.