My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

AIBU?

Allow me this rant. My mother is sending me INSANE

96 replies

bupcakesandcunting · 22/02/2011 17:13

I've had my mother staying with me since last week as she is having a new kitchen and bathroom fitted. When I offered to put her up, I thought "oh it'll be lovely having nanna around for DS/someone to chat to in the mornings" etc etc.All it has done is conform why I would never, ever move back home if DH and I went tits up.

A selection of things she has done to wond me up this week;

  • Sat plucking her moustache in front of the telly last night whilst DH and I were trying to watch telly. Not even plucking it in front of a mirror, just sat there wildly plucking whilst gawping at the gogglebox...


-Used a tub of olive oil spread in 4 days, by spreading an inch-thick layer of the stuff every time she makes toast/hot cross buns.

  • After I cooked a roast dinner on sunday, went into the kitchen 2 hours later to rustle up a chicken sandwich. I laughingly told her she couldn't really be hungry and she accused me of serving up tiny portions Hmm (I don't, I just don't serve up the EU food reserves on one plate like some people...)


  • Asked if she could buy DS a cake from the shops. I said yes but just a small one as he'd wolfed a packet of buttons and a Curly Wurly that day. She returns with a Belgian bun the size of BELGIUM.


  • Flushed the bog at 6am despite my asking her not to as it renders the shower freezing for an hour afterwards and DH uses the shower at 6.15 (yes, I am getting that fixed but not until next week...)


  • Told me "that's bad" thsi morning when I explained AGAIN why she can't flush bog at 6am. So sorry that Hotel Cunting is not up to your exacting standards, ma'am.


-Constantly having digs at me about how I choose to parent my child.

  • Told me it was about time after I made DH a butty for work on Monday.


  • Keeps telling me that my house is too cold.It is not. The thermometer tells me as much.


OP posts:
Report
Emo76 · 22/02/2011 17:17

hahhahahaha. Appreciate she's driving you nuts but she won't be around forever and you'll (possibly) treasure these memories one day!

Report
bupcakesandcunting · 22/02/2011 17:18

I will, I will. I treasure her now.

When she is in her OWN house Wink

OP posts:
Report
femalevictormeldrew · 22/02/2011 17:18

Maybe she did a (ahem) poop at 6am and rather than leave it sitting in the toilet for all and sundry to see, she flushed?

Report
bupcakesandcunting · 22/02/2011 17:19

She could have held fire on the dump, surely?

OP posts:
Report
MadamDeathstare · 22/02/2011 17:19

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

MadamDeathstare · 22/02/2011 17:19

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

bupcakesandcunting · 22/02/2011 17:21

Nah, course not.

What if you're moseying round town and you need a dump but bogs are ten minutes trek away? You won't shat yourself unless you have faecal incontinence and I'm sure that my mother doesn't have F.I...

OP posts:
Report
JoBettany · 22/02/2011 17:23

I feel your pain. My mother is doing the same to me. I'm recovering from quite a bad bout of flu at the moment and my mother has 'kindly' come round to 'help'.

This mainly involves criticising my housekeeping and appearance. In the last 48 hours she has told me I look 'ghastly'; that not only have I not lost weight while I've been ill but that I look like I have 'swollen up'!!! ConfusedGrin.

I think they must go to a special training camp for this sort of thing!

Will join you in a drink when I'm better. Am just off to the mirror for the millionth time to check for signs of 'swelling'! Grin.

Report
ssd · 22/02/2011 17:23

let her go home then when you've forgotten how annoying she is go and stay with her for a few days with the kids and drive HER mental

Report
Meow75 · 22/02/2011 17:25

I agree with Madam Deathstare - I dump approximately 4X a day - when they are cooked, they are cooked, and the first one is done by 0645 normally!!! And by that I mean that it won't usually wait till 0700hrs!

Report
FoundWanting · 22/02/2011 17:27

I'm strangely impressed by someone who can pluck their moustache without a mirror.

And to do it in front of other people.

Amazing.

Report
bupcakesandcunting · 22/02/2011 17:28

My mum had a "man friend" living with her for some years, not all that long ago. She used to "hold fire" until he'd left for work at 9am, every morning. She said she'd have rather died than let rip whilst he was about. So I know of her holding fire skillz Grin

OP posts:
Report
ratspeaker · 22/02/2011 17:29

Leave a bucket filled with water next to the lavvy for flushing first thing

How long til the kitchen is done?

Report
RunAwayWife · 22/02/2011 17:30

LOL sorry should not laugh but this is hilarious

Report
bupcakesandcunting · 22/02/2011 17:30

It IS weird isn't it, FoundWanting? It's not just me being a princess, is it?

DH eventually sloped off into the cellar to do some internet banking at the peak of the pluckery. My mum asked if it was because he was irritated by her budget epilation technique. I did say that it was a bit rank and she did "The Hurt Face (tm)"

She has now announced that she will be retiring to bed early tonight so that she "doesn't repulse DH" Hmm

OP posts:
Report
bupcakesandcunting · 22/02/2011 17:32

Oh RatSpeaker, soon I hope. She said she would only be staying until the kitchen was actually in/electrics plumbing done. Which they now are. She said today "I MIGHT sleep at home tomorrow" WTF?

OP posts:
Report
babyapplejack · 22/02/2011 17:36

PMSL at hotel cunting not being up to her standards Grin

Also at the pluckery GrinGrin

YANBU though.

Report
darleneconnor · 22/02/2011 17:39

I feel your pain. Everytime I spend more than 48 hrs with mine we fall out for weeks afterwards.

But some of what you've said is a tad unreasonable. (Some NOT AT ALL, though, esp the making DP's butties-thee cheek!)

It's not her fault your plumbing isn't working. A v high % of old people have continance problems and I dont think it's unreasonable for her to want to flush a big stinker.

If she eats bigger portions than you, go with it. Dont be the food police.

Old people feel the cold more.

Better her plucking than having to lok at unpplesent facils hair.

Report
ratspeaker · 22/02/2011 17:46

Grit teeth
wont be much longer
At least you're venting here not having a slanging match

The hair plucking must mean she feels relaxed around you < trying to find silver lining here >

Report
bupcakesandcunting · 22/02/2011 17:47

Old people?! She's only bleedin' 52!!

OP posts:
Report
FoundWanting · 22/02/2011 17:48

Grin

What is she going to be like in another twenty years?

Mwah ha ha ha.

Report
ENormaSnob · 22/02/2011 17:50

Yadnbu

at least it's not her knicker beard she plucks in front of you Grin

Report

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

FellatioNelson · 22/02/2011 17:51

My mother is wonderful. From a distance.

Report
curlymama · 22/02/2011 17:55

You dump 4 times a day meow?!

Wow, that is some metabloism! Grin

Report
diddl · 22/02/2011 17:57

"Old people?! She's only bleedin' 52!!"

Bloody hell, I´m only 5yrs youngerShock

I do think that moustache plucking is not a spectator sport tbh.

As for flushing the toilet, I think it´s hard not to tbh-especially in someone else´s house.

I think leaving a bucket of water balanced on the lid where she can see it is a good idea.

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.