A 'doh' moment

M. and I will be visiting Seoul together at the end of the month. I thought it might be good for my mother to see him - when else would she get to see him? - because I know she is secretly darn curious. She always is, she just never really shows it in the way my father would. That's probably why she does get to meet my boyfriends.
"Do you want to meet M. while we're there?" I asked her.
"Why, do you need someone to point out his bad points?" She said.
"Are you going to come to the meeting to pick out his bad points?" I asked.
"Well you'll have seen all his good points, I'm sure, so someone needs to balance it out," my mother said.
"If you're going to be like that, then maybe I shouldn't let you see him," I said.
"Fine, I can't be bothered anyway," she said.
We agreed I would call her on Sunday to work out a time and place.

I got two emails from my father today.
First email: 'You advised your mother to meet M. What kind of visit is this?'
I replied that it was actually on business, but M. will just 'happen to be there' since I'm taking him along.
Second email: 'Is he on leave to meet us? Do you think you may marry him in time? What's his personal data? Even if he is coming to Seoul, you should stay in a separate room'.
My response - 'No, I told you, it's my business trip. Crikey. Who knows?! Whaddya mean by 'personal data', his waist size? And of course, no (a double room costs the same as a single room).'

I should have figured.... the moral of the story is, even if your parents squabble like a pair of crazed parakeets, they will co-operate when it comes to your private life. Why didn't I realise this before, that Mum would tell Dad about this?