Mom – “…help me clean!”
me – “What?”
Mom – “Are you busy?”
me – “Uh, I’m fixing to go to bed.”
Mom – “Aw, I wanted you to help me clean.”
me – “It’s one in the morning!”
My mother is a fanatic.
Three till Seven
Programming, espresso, and grumbling.
For 1200 you could have gotten the new JVC HDTV camcorder on ebay :)
I just had Mom come over and read this whole exchange. “Of course I won’t spend money on meals! That’s a waste. I can save it for plants.” Then she started talking about, when she was little, her mother would pay her a nickel if she filled up a jar of potato bugs.
What decade was your mother born in? 1950′s for mine.
Lol at the “axe murderers” bit. I never had to deal with that.
My mother is just like that! If Dad asks her to buy a $1,000 camcorder (like she just did with the Sony), she’ll run right out and get it. But when she goes shopping for herself, she worries if she spends $12.10 on marked-down plants at Lowes (like she just did). The woman hates to buy meals, too. I’ll go shopping with her and she’ll live the whole day on a banana and a jug of water. I, meanwhile, am wilting away and begging to stop at a Wendy’s.
Well, they’ve leveled out a lot. They were weird when I was a kid. They were always suspicious that my friends/friends’ parents were “axe murderers.” My mom also has this thing about us being poor (we’re not). My theory is she grew up poor and so she’s afraid to spend money. I’m sure there’s more, but those things come to mind.
Wow, that is fanatical. Your family is kinda strange. Stranger, perhaps, than mine…
I found out this morning that Mom was up till 5a, cleaning the downstairs bathroom. I guess something got into her that that bathroom just had to be cleaned.
What are some of the quirks your family has?