farsk
03-11-2009, 08:50 PM
Two posts in the bitching post in two days? It has to be PMS.....
My mother has some significant issues with boundaries and control. I won't go into past details.
Today, she calls and tells me that she's arranged a play date for my daughter after school. Fine. I don't have a problem with that. She tells me that she'll bring her back approximately one hour after I get off work.
After work, BF and I decide to finish watching the movie we had tried to start watching last night, but two little girls kept us from it.....
Anyway, mom calls when the playdate was over and tells me that she is taking Ellen to her house. I ask if it's OK to pick her up in about 30 minutes, we were almost finished with a movie.
"Sure."
"OK, thanks! I'll see you in just a few minutes"
"OK. Bye"
"Bye"
and as I was lowering the phone to disconnect the call...
"You sure do watch a lot of movies"
????????????????????????????????
I brought the phone back to my ear and said, "What did you say?"
"You sure do watch a lot of movies"
"Um, yeah, people do watch movies"
When it was over, I went to pick El up and just wanted to leave. Of course she makes that impossible.
"So you were watching *another* movie?"
"Yeah"
"What did you watch?"
"Rachel Getting Married"
"Was it good"
"It was interesting..."
"You sure are watching a lot of movies. I never thought you watched that many movies"
"Well mom, what do you think people do when their kids are asleep? I used to watch Law & Order re-runs."
"Well, I just thought you liked reruns"
And on it went.
When I left, she yelled at me out the door, "Try not to be so pissed off the next time you come over."
I was -->thisclose<--to yelling back, "If you don't want me to be pissed off while i'm here, try not pissing me off before I get here!"
Is it really that much preferable that I spend my evenings watching re-runs of Law & Order as opposed to the one disk at a time option from Netflicks? Is Red Box really that repugnant?
Seriously. What gives?
My mother has some significant issues with boundaries and control. I won't go into past details.
Today, she calls and tells me that she's arranged a play date for my daughter after school. Fine. I don't have a problem with that. She tells me that she'll bring her back approximately one hour after I get off work.
After work, BF and I decide to finish watching the movie we had tried to start watching last night, but two little girls kept us from it.....
Anyway, mom calls when the playdate was over and tells me that she is taking Ellen to her house. I ask if it's OK to pick her up in about 30 minutes, we were almost finished with a movie.
"Sure."
"OK, thanks! I'll see you in just a few minutes"
"OK. Bye"
"Bye"
and as I was lowering the phone to disconnect the call...
"You sure do watch a lot of movies"
????????????????????????????????
I brought the phone back to my ear and said, "What did you say?"
"You sure do watch a lot of movies"
"Um, yeah, people do watch movies"
When it was over, I went to pick El up and just wanted to leave. Of course she makes that impossible.
"So you were watching *another* movie?"
"Yeah"
"What did you watch?"
"Rachel Getting Married"
"Was it good"
"It was interesting..."
"You sure are watching a lot of movies. I never thought you watched that many movies"
"Well mom, what do you think people do when their kids are asleep? I used to watch Law & Order re-runs."
"Well, I just thought you liked reruns"
And on it went.
When I left, she yelled at me out the door, "Try not to be so pissed off the next time you come over."
I was -->thisclose<--to yelling back, "If you don't want me to be pissed off while i'm here, try not pissing me off before I get here!"
Is it really that much preferable that I spend my evenings watching re-runs of Law & Order as opposed to the one disk at a time option from Netflicks? Is Red Box really that repugnant?
Seriously. What gives?