I probably was, but she is driving me crazy.
She is constantly telling me what I 'ought to do'
'you don't want to buy a carpet cleaner you want to get so and so in they only charge x' 5 times last week, I want a carpet cleaner as they need doing a lot with a two year old. Same reason given to DM, so she started telling DP.
'You should go to x and buy new dining room set, there is a sale on, yours is old now' it's old but fine, we can't afford it and see above we have a two year old, when I buy a nice new one I want it to stay that way, no dints where ds has 'crashed' his trucks. Told her we will buy one when we can afford to and we need one, she went to x at the weekend and called DP to tell them they had some lovely ones in.
'You need a shoe rack next to this door, you can buy them for next to nothing' not ones that actually fit and allow the door to still open, it's a narrow space, I've been looking for one but they are all two wide. Phoned DP, there are shoe racks on offer at x.
Im on the 5:2 diet which I explained in detail, 'what are you having for tea' oh I'm having x and x, which is met by a smirk and 'I thought you were on a diet?' With a look that says 'storm has failed again I knew she would'
She called in twice today, went on about fuirnature and her new thing which is getting someone in to wall paper (were having it painted, I don't want wallpaper) I was up to my eyes cleaning, I'd mopped the floor and put the shoes that are usually by the door outside. She called in the second time and I'd replaced the shoes, and I got a 'oh storm, you'd made it look so nice, you don't want to be putting them back there'
I'm afraid I saw red, before she started banging on about the pissing shoe racks in bleeding tescos that are too fucking big I said 'please can you mind your own business, the shoes aren't doing any harm, they don't look messy, they are at the back door, no one else seems to mind, I am getting tired of you constantly telling me what I should do, I'm 30 years old, I have a job, a mortgage and a child, please let me make my own decisions'
To which she stormed out, slammed the door and said she won't be offering me any advice again, ill end up apologising tomorrow, but I need to get it written down.
maybe ill have wine, I'm on a feast day
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To have told my mother to mind her own business?
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storminabuttercup · 06/03/2013 16:17
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