lottie
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Anybody else with impossible mothers?Just had a phone call from my mother--"Can you go and buy me a daily mail, then get one every day for a month as we're collecting d.v.d. coupons"---I explained[as she knows] that I live miles from a newsagents and don't go to town very often. They have a newspaper delivered,but she wants extra ones!!!!---I know my dad's not well[I've been popping to Yorkshire and back] but now I am an unfeeling ungrateful daughter who won't make a 12 mile round trip every day to collect her extra paper that she could ring up and have delivered with her others----you couldn't make it up--believe me this is normal  ---my brother has no contact as he can't cope. 
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tahir
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Hmm, if I remember rightly you are a mother, perahps you'd better ask your offspring?
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Penny
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I am an impossible mother. I have the audacity to suggest to our eldest that he might like to go out and get a real job as he's now finished college 
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BahamaMama
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You should try being a step-mother. Wicked is part of the job title 
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AnnaD
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I feel your pain. When I was still in high school, Mum would phone me while I was at parties and tell me to go to the village and buy her cigarettes. If I said no she would threaten to get Dad home from work to get her them.
These days she's even worse and I am so grateful that I don't live near her. I do feel sorry for my younger sister though
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Pel
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Have to say my mum is great.. on the other hand MIL isnt, i get annoyed every time i see her.. OH's parents are a tad undesicive and have to ask each other before making their mind up, and sometimes they never get that far, this might be normal not sure but my parents, esp. mum is very quick to make a desicion ok sometimes not the best.. and i've been told i have that habit too.
MIL is also very materialistic, so when OH says we have no money and he needs some (just to point out we/him has never asked them for money the whole time being a student and since he was 15, even though technically they were meant to give him some according to the loans people and they treat his sis and bro all the time), she is like surely you have some money, i'll ask dad and i'll get back to you.. which never happend (luckily OH's money came through in the nick of time).
Actually she don't sound as bad as your mum lottie.
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Helen M
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mum is a dream and i love her. i want to be just like her when i grow up.
today how ever i have seen the sky turn black, the birds have fallen to the ground. thunder claps and it is raining blood. oh yes the MIL IS COMING OVER! 
she's not so bad really, not any more but used to be my worst nightmare. gran MIL however is EVIL 
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jocorless
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My Mother was an absolute nightmare - I loved her to bits and would have her back in a flash, warts and all but she drove me absolutely totally and utterly nuts with the ungrateful daughter act - Its the one thing that I don't miss about her - the arguments, putting of the phone down and the mega long sulks that could go on for weeks if my Dad didn't intervene!
My MIL is as bad but for different reasons - She winds up my OH by frequently re-writing the past to her own version totally forgetting that most of the things she's re-working he and his sisters were there too and know the real version! She also loves to make out that we are neglectful as parents and that she did a much better job and she had 5 kids to bring up! Grrrrr - I'm winding myself up now
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Chez
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My Ma has a talent for saying what she is thinking when it perhaps would be best if she didn't. But having said that, she's nearly always there when I need her - she's coming up next week to help us pack.
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mochyn
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Mine's just barmy. So's the old chap's.
I'll have to ask the kids what they think of me one day...
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Chez
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| mochyn wrote: | Mine's just barmy. So's the old chap's.
I'll have to ask the kids what they think of me one day... |
Ahem. See your first sentence  .
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mochyn
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| Chez wrote: | | mochyn wrote: | Mine's just barmy. So's the old chap's.
I'll have to ask the kids what they think of me one day... |
Ahem. See your first sentence . |
Meaning? 
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Chez
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| mochyn wrote: | | Meaning? |
Absolutely nothing. Nothing at all.
*heads for piggery*
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Brownbear
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When I was seriously ill in hospital, with poor prospects, my mother brought be a few titbits of food and a pair of slippers, packet of razor blades etc, then told me that if I survived she'd be presenting me with the bill for the items.
After I'd had some surgery, she insisted in visiting me at home and demanded tea and cake to celebrate her birthday despite the fact that I was unable to speak from pain. In the end I swallowed some Tramadol capsules and sank into a blissful opiate trance as she talked away.
My Father is a Freemason.
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Nanny
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my mom is impossible but i solved the problem by being 3,000 miles away, pleading lackof funds whenever she suggests i visit and being completely honest and telling her that for a woman who shops till she drops and expects to be ferried thither and yon to do it, this is simply not the place for her 4 miles form the nearest village and diesel at £1.27 a gallon
she could go to colorado to see my sister again but the altitude of the rockies was too much for her..........well rolf's bloodpressure would be as high as the rockies if she came over and stayed
at the slightest hint of a visit recently, he said i had better find a hotel for her............
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Rob R
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| Nanny wrote: | and diesel at £1.27 a gallon
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I'm moving there! 
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Nanny
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| Rob R wrote: | | Nanny wrote: | and diesel at £1.27 a gallon
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I'm moving there! |
oh sorry, what a pratt
i mean of course per liter
it is now about £1.35 per US gallon and my mom complains that it is outrageous and always goes to buy her petrol on the pensioners day as she gets a discount when she shows her social security card....
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Rob R
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£1-25 I've got some at today, which works out at about 11.7p/mile, but also seen it for £1-33 which would make it 12.5p/mile, it's a good job the UK is so densely populated
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Chez
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It's gone down to £1.15 here.
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Jonnyboy
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You fools!! All your parents who lurk on here to find out what you actually do with your lives beyond the 'I'm fine' phonecalls will read this and spend your inheritance even faster.
Hi Mum, hi Dad, hope your flight over is OK. All the brandy is gone BTW and the sloe gin has almost had it.....
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Nanny
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| Jonnyboy wrote: | You fools!! All your parents who lurk on here to find out what you actually do with your lives beyond the 'I'm fine' phonecalls will read this and spend your inheritance even faster.
Hi Mum, hi Dad, hope your flight over is OK. All the brandy is gone BTW and the sloe gin has almost had it..... |
most fortunately for me, the computer is an alien being to my mom......she nearly bought one so she could look at the bbc website history thing but seems to have given up on the idea...phew.....
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Rob R
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| Jonnyboy wrote: | You fools!! All your parents who lurk on here to find out what you actually do with your lives beyond the 'I'm fine' phonecalls will read this and spend your inheritance even faster.
Hi Mum, hi Dad, hope your flight over is OK. All the brandy is gone BTW and the sloe gin has almost had it..... |
You need the parent that comes with inbuilt parental internet access controls
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lottie
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Actually that was a very mild example--just a straws and camels back afternoon, thanks for letting me moan. My kids put up with her for my sake , my brother won't anymore.
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Jonnyboy
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Beware the silver surfers, that's all I'll say.
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Marionb
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I'd be safe, my parents dont even know how to switch a computer on
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sean
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Ahh come on, they *loved* your Christmas cake article.
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Chez
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| Marionb wrote: | | I'd be safe, my parents dont even know how to switch a computer on |
They SAY that.
My mother pretends to be completely illiterate and then lets slip things like "Oh well, I was just knocking up a design in Photoshop in my pottery class. They layering option is really powerful, isn't it?!"
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Marionb
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| Chez wrote: | | Marionb wrote: | | I'd be safe, my parents dont even know how to switch a computer on |
They SAY that.
My mother pretends to be completely illiterate and then lets slip things like "Oh well, I was just knocking up a design in Photoshop in my pottery class. They layering option is really powerful, isn't it?!" |
Well my parents would have to buy a pc first.... then work out how to connect it to the internet... (after finding out how to switch it on of course)
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Chez
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They probably go to the library and don't tell you .
My favourite-ever class of silver surfers were all over 75 (Hilda, Ada, Murial and Betty) and couldn't remember a thing ("We used to be able to remember things dear, but it's all gone you know! Remind me how to save the thing again?").
Hilda used to be a very expensive secretary, typed 80wmp and couldn't use the mouse to save her life. I spent two lessons thinking "oh god, I've got a right one here" and then it turned out that at home, she had a 'lap thing' and got on much better with a touch-pad .
And they were very understanding when my 'how to use google' practical session turned up an *enormous* naked man poised and ready for action - "don't worry dear, we've seen it all before!". They almost gave him marks out of ten .
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Marionb
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Sounds like they were great fun
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Chez
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Actually, one of them mentioned she had a daughter called Marionb
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Marionb
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| Chez wrote: | | Actually, one of them mentioned she had a daughter called Marionb |
Now she tells me
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