So I was very hungover this morning and was kneeling by the toilet bowl, looking at my small pond of sick and thinking about how guessing what a person had for dinner by their puke contents could actually make a great game, when I received a text from my father saying he and my mother were on the way to my apartment.

So I washed my face, flushed the toilet, and started cleaning and cooking up a storm. Things I rarely do when in my normal, sober state. Things I never do drunk.

Forget Aspirin. Your parents dropping by for a surprise visit is the best hangover cure.