Seymour - "Embarassing parents visit"

Who: Ambassador Seymour Niples and his parents
Where: Ambassadorial Quarters
When: December 27th
Seymour paced the hallway to his grand Ambassadorial quarters on
Blue Dwarf. His father was stood next to him beaming at his son.
This was very unusual, as before Christmas eve, he hadn't seen his
parents in years. But now, he couldn't wait to see the back of them.
"Father, I wish you wouldn't stare at me like that, you make me feel
very uncomfortable!"
Seymour's father grinned. "I'm sorry son, I was just thinking what a
wonderful Christmas this has turned out to be, we havn't seen you in
so long, or indeed heard from you in so long, and suddenly now you
turn up at Earth and we have the opportunity to spend a fantastic
Christmas together! It's been good to see you it really has."
Seymour sighed impatiently. "Yes yes of course father, don't go on
so much." He shifted on his feet impatiently and yelled back into
the quarters. "Mother, hurry up! Please, the table at the restaurant
is only reserved for so long!"
His mother came out of the bathroom wearing the most colourful and
dreadful poncho over her attire. She looked like Hyacinth Bouquet of
the future. "I'm coming dear, I'm coming! Don't you own the
restaurant anyway? I'm sure…"
"Yes yes, I just wanted you to hurry up!" Seymour snapped. "And
that's another thing, there may be people I know in there so DO NOT
embarrass me, I'm a well respected and highly liked member of this
ship, and I don't want people to think I'm a little bit sissy or
anything just because I'm with my parents. If anyone looses any
respect for me then it may dramatically affect the entire command
structure of the ship!"
"So you're embarrassed of us is that it Seymour?" Said his mother
sounding hurt. Seymour's dad snapped up "Don't talk bad to your
mother boy!" he reached for his belt.
"No no of course no." Seymour quickly backtracked.
They left his quarters and headed to "Les Royale Niples", the swanky
restaurant on the Promenade that Seymour owned.
------In Les Royale Niples------
"A very nice place this is!" Seymour's father surveyed the place,
tweaking his moustache. "Very elegant and sophisticated!"
Seymour half smiled at the compliment. Although he had used to take
pleasure in the finer things in life, since the personality
transplant he now realised that taking too much pride in such things
made you more cut off from society, now he cared more about
being `cool', and in fashion.
"How come you're dress down so much these days?" His mother asked
him. "You used to always look so adorable wearing suits, ties and
those little dickie-bows!" He pulled on his cheek.
"Mother please!" He said swiping her mothering away in
embarrassment. "Wel if you must know I had something called a
personality-"
Before he could finish his mother had wetted a napkin and tried to
dab his chin clean.
"Mother please! What are you doing?!"
"Well you had a little bit of dirt dear…"
"Mother, I'm a grown man, I think I can wash properly!"
"Well obviously not, here – now blow your nose…"
"Mother!!!" he sighed and gave in, he blew into the hanky she held
up for him.
"You spoil the boy Margaret, he is old enough to look after himself.
Look what he's achieved on this ship. He was captain, now ROYAL
ambassador, we are very proud son."
Seymour beamed. In his opinion of course they should be proud of
him. In his opinion he was fantastic.
"Well he's still my little boy!" His mother pulled his cheek again
and tickled him under the arm. Seymour backed away and stood
up. "Mother please you said you wouldn't embarrass me."
Seymour heard a light banging and looked around. Chris Harris was
just passing the window, and had seen him and was now pointing and
laughing. "Seymour's with his parents, Seymour's with his parents!"
He mocked. Seymour scowled and sat down.
The waiter came with the first course of soup. As he reached over,
he knocked a wine glass and spilled it down Seymour's trousers.
"You clumsy fool, these are cool designer wear too!" Seymour said
annoyed. The waiter started to dab the wine, making it spread.
"Ooooooh" said his mother (that noise that only mothers can
make) "That will stain that will, you better get your trousers off
and take them into the kitchen." She started to pull his trousers
down.
"MOTHER STOP!" Said Seymour, fighting to keep his trousers up.
"Don't worry love, you've got nothing that nobody's seen before…"
Chris Harris at the window was now laughing uncontrollably and had
caught the attention of Efof Yuwan'Kar and Python, and a few other
passers by who were all laughing through the window.
"Noooooo!!" Seymour covered his face with embarassment.