You know how on Everybody Loves Raymond, the mother Marie Barone, is so very unsupportive of Robert? When I watch this on TV it just makes me laugh like crazy. I realize my family has been doing this for years.
Example. The day Rick was at the White House my mother called.
I told her he was at the White House for this job in the presidents quarters.
Mom: "Why did they call him?"
Me: I laughed and said, "well, why not us?"
Mom: " Well, aren't there other people who do this in your area?"
OMG. I burst out laughing and just said, "why yes there are mother."
Ah, there is that support I know and love.
You see there is no sense in trying to explain to her how awful that is to say to your kids. She does it to all of us. She is equally non supportive to all 5 of we girls and her grand kids. Sure when I was a kid it hurt and pissed me off.
But by the time I was in my early 20's I would just laugh.
Because honestly they are nuts.
Our office is closed on Saturday and Sunday. But because it is in our home I can still hear the phone ringing. The phone was ringing off the hook on Sunday.
Sunday night we had just gone to bed. At 11:15p the phone rang. Rick rolled over to face me and said, "Why the hell are these people calling us? Don't they know there are other people who do this?" It really caught me off guard and made me laugh.
Today I had a very cantankerous old bird driving me nuts. Rick called shortly after for messages. I told him about her and he said, "Why didn't you ask her why the hell she called us, there are a lot of people who do this in our area?" That cracked me up and took me off the ledge. That seems to be our new go to line.
I love my parents and I know they love me but for the love of God they have no clue on how to be supportive. My parents have always said the weirdest things to we girls. Once they were talking to us about this young woman we all knew who had just gotten raped. I was 17 at the time. My parents were giving us a lecture on what to look for etc When my father said, "Peg, you don't have to be pretty or attractive to get raped it can happen to even you" Gee thanks Dad.
My sisters and I laugh about this shit all the time. When my sister responded to him about this he said, "What? oh you're being so sensitive" I just laugh.
Honestly it's funny as hell and my family would make a very successful sitcom.
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I would have responded to Mom with 'We're the best Mom. That's why they called us.'
I'm so glad my family isn't like that lol. I'd be crying all the time ;)
My in-laws though, yep, that's them.
Truth be told Mike I did say that but it falls on deaf ears.
Julie - no you wouldn't. After awhile you get numb and see the humor. They are the idiots. This says more about them than you. When I was very young it was difficult. But as an adult you realize that they are nutso and you won't ever do that to your kids. :-)
I wanted to leave a comment, but there are other people who do that.
Bilbo - you clever snarky little stinker you!
i been thinkin' about this all day.
i'd probably sound like your mom.
so my friend diana was telling me about this friend she has who's in orange is the new black and i'm all, like, wait, wait.... how do YOU know famous people?
because if *i* know diana, she must be just regular people like me, and famous people are not part of my sphere.
so i was all like the WHITE HOUSE? really?
not because you're not good, but because it seems to me like winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning.
and i guess my shock is not that they called you, but that they don't have some official gubmint contractor for all their home maintenance needs.
really? the white house calls up contractors just like i do? HOW DID THEY FIND YOU??????
flask - i understand where you are coming from but it is no where like my mother (step) She seriously means that she can't understand why we would be good enough for that. Ex: when I was prompted she asked, "well that's nice dear but aren't there any men in the company that do that? Why were you chosen?"
The thought never crosses her mind that I could have earned this and been that good. :-)
As for how did they call us? The house engineer was working with a contractor and asked who he knew that did great restoration. Our company came up. Then he just kept asking. We always came up as the one to use so he called us. That's how.
oops - that was "when I was promoted"
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