My master bedroom suite is situated in the same geographic space where I was most likely conceived over 48 years ago. A different house is on the spot now, though.
Of course my folks could have been on vacation, wandered off into the woods, or onto the beach for all I know. But since my conception date was in January, I sort of doubt it.
She was not conceived there. Neither was our other offspring. If she expresses interest in the details, I’ll bring her up to date on the info. I don’t expect her to express said interest.
More how than where… My mother was kind enough to share that I’m here thanks to a faulty condom. Er, thanks, Mom! She was nice enough to say that I wasn’t an “accident;” I was a “surprise.”
And all of my sisters except the oldest were conceived in the bathroom of whatever house they lived in at the time, because that was the only room with a lock on the door. I once asked how they managed to have four kids in five years while Dad worked third shift, and they told me, “Send the kids out to the backyard to play, and lock the bathroom door.” More than I really needed to know…
Assuming that I was conceived in my parent’s bedroom at the house they were living in at the time, then both I and my daughter were conceived on the same mattress…
I think it’s safe to assume that I was conceived in my parents’ bedroom, as were my siblings. They never struck me as adventurous types. However, after my mom died I got the letters she had saved from before they were married, making it clear that there was no hanky-panky going on then, and some from the first couple of years after their wedding, when my dad was working out of state, or she was visiting her mother. He missed her something awful, and I really mean that. I learned some things I really didn’t need to know. It was worse than the time Mom told me the story about my sister asking where babies come from. At the end, sister asked the classic question, “You mean you and Daddy did that four times?” After hearing about it, I said, “It would have had to be seven times.” (because Mom had three miscarriages) And she muttered “A week.”
Oh, a whole lot more than I really wanted to know!!
My parents were in Bermuda for a month, and I happened there. Though this was never confirmed to me, I know from my father’s journals (which I’ve had since his death) that he was working out of town for the six weeks prior to the vacation and for two months afterward. Since I was neither horribly premature nor outrageously late, I had to have happened on the island.
That may explain my fondness for knee-length shorts.
I was conceived at the after-show party of a Brecht play my father was in. A fact my mother chose to advise me of at the after-show party of a play I was in at university, by announcing to the room in general: “The last time I was at a cast party was the night I conceived Jenny.” :o
I am guessing it was in the tiny “house” where we lived until I was 10. I do know it was two days after my parents were married, since that’s when everyone had finally left. So: June 12, 1978.
And I do know that I was conceived under the influence of mushrooms and wine. Yes, THOSE kind of mushrooms.
Conceived in a back seat
Born in a ditch
My father was a terrorist
My mother was a witch
I was raised in an alley by a wino named Bill
He taught me how to fight and he taught me how to kill.
Now I’m in a gang and I wear a leather coat
And when the sun goes down I pray to the Goat!