And from there she started to get very infantilizing in a kind of classical way. Told me "I hadn't done enough research" on FFS and "didn't know what I was getting into" She glibly INSISTED I could, and should, get my money back as if these kinds of surgeons just do that
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Argued with her on a near-daily basis in the weeks leading up to me flying to Argentina Even though I'd had all this planned out for _literally a year_ after years of preparation and a LIFETIME of researching trans stuff she acted like I was a child getting taken advantage of
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Anyway when the day finally came for me to fly out to Buenos Aires and make contact with the person assigned to assist me, I arrived at the airport to discover that my mother had purchased a more direct flight to the city and was already waiting at Arrivals with said assistant
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I think we've beaten this bit to death but I still can't get over what a pitch perfect wacky sitcom moment this is
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The fact that in order for this to work she had to specifically find a flight that would leave after you and arrive before you
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Penelope being the furthest away from the United States she's ever been in her life only to suddenly find who else but
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Immediately after the shocking reveal the Ron Howard narrator starting an explanatory flashback "Minutes after Penelope left the house, Wendy was on the Internet searching for a last minute flight to Buenos Aires of her own"
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"She was able to find a decent deal on a direct flight that would leave from the terminal adjacent to Penelope's one hour later while arriving two hours earlier, for a surcharge of only $800" *Wendy slams her fist into the desk by the computer* "FUCK"
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"In the cab on the way to the airport she was only the phone making a hasty excuse to her employer about traveling to Argentina to 'rescue her son', which, unbeknownst to her, would soon start a wild rumor at her workplace that she was involved with an international drug cartel"
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"As JetBlue Flight 655 and Delta Flight 1788 took off, two generations of the Pilbeam women were briefly within 50 miles of each other, both relaxed and confident that now that they were in the air, everything was finally under control"
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*split screen shot of Penelope and Wendy slowly exhaling and settling back into their seats*
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Penelope humming a cheerful little tune as she passes through the security line without incident followed by Wendy screaming at the same security guy 35 minutes later that she's going to miss her flight
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