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My mother annoys me because.......

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Pruni · 04/06/2006 22:49

She pronounces urine and genuine as "yoo-righn" and "jen-yoo-wine".
She cackles, throws her head back and cackles and waves her feet in the air when laughing.
She holds her knife like a pen.
And she pokes me, prods me, brushes my hair off my face and examines me for fat deposits.
And finishes my sentences - wrongly, every f**king time.
I could go on.
[rictus grin]

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Beauregard · 04/06/2006 22:50

my mother annoys me because it's her job

TheMammy · 04/06/2006 22:55

She slaps me when she is talking to me.

She nips the soft flabby skin under my arm and leaves bruises.

She swears.

She favours my sisters child over the rest of them, as sis had her when she was 15, but if it had've been the rest of us she would have killed us, and not supported us.

She talks too much

All meant in a good way of course

nannyme · 04/06/2006 22:56

Haaaaaaaah! My mum holds her knife like that too...
And she says expresso instead of espresso and ezotic instead of exotic.

There must be more, I shall think on...

TheHonArfy · 04/06/2006 22:57

my mother annoys me because I can see that I'm turning into her....

twinsetandpearls · 04/06/2006 22:58

I have been waiting 31 years for her to say something nice to me!

Have spent the past two days tidying our house ( even cleaned out the shed, understairs cupbaord and skirting boards FFS!) after she told me that my house was so much nicer when the previous family lived there. She also announced at dinner last week that my dining table was hideous and a bit unsteady so dp and I have sanded it down prepared it for varnishing and fixed its wonky leg, totally reorganized the dining room after she said it felt cramped even ousting a book case and banishing my beloved books to the charity shop.

Anyway Mum came round, told me my house would never be one to be proud off when I let kids run riot in it and asked what one earth I had done to the dining room. She then finished her coffee asked if we were trying to save money by buying a cheaper brand and then left!

twinsetandpearls · 04/06/2006 22:58

Yes TheHonArfy that worries me because every now and again I catch myself doing something she does and it terrifies me.

twinsetandpearls · 04/06/2006 23:00

One of her most cuting remarks last year was we always knew you were never going to be the attractive one but we always pinned our hopes on you being the successful one - but never mind I am sure one day you will manage something!

twinsetandpearls · 04/06/2006 23:00

cutting bot cuting - in no way is my mother cute!

Pruni · 04/06/2006 23:01

My mum's pronunciation errors are many and various. It constantly amazes me that the rest of the population manages to pronounce very simple words one way and she has to pronounce them like she's never heard them ever before. EG Brisbane. She says "briz-bayne" and is the only person in britain ever to do this ever so why does she do it? Does she just think everyone else is wrong?????

And she's obsessed with crappy labels in TK Maxx. If it's not Moschino she's not having it.
Of course everything in TK Maxx has the wrong size label on it, because there's no way she's bigger than a 16.
Oh god I need to lie down. It doesn't matter. I know it doesn't. She just winds me up so much.

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Pruni · 04/06/2006 23:02

See, tsap, you have genuine complaints about your mother - she sounds like a cow, frankly. Sorry.

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Tommy · 04/06/2006 23:03

she's always complaining that we never go and visit her and when we do, she's always out and when she comes to visit us she leaves after an hour saying "Well, I must get on...."

(that obviosuly is just one thing.....I haven't got time for everything )

TheHonArfy · 04/06/2006 23:03

she does sound horrid T&P. Actually, none of them on this thread sound great! my mother is not nasty, just infuriating

TheMammy · 04/06/2006 23:04

twinsetandpearls... how dare she give your books to charity.. that'd be a hanging offence in this house

nannyme · 04/06/2006 23:07

She also says choclit rather than chocolate and toilit instead of toilet and, although not necessarily wrong, thee-etter instead of theatre.

twinsetandpearls · 04/06/2006 23:07

She actually isn't a cow, I have spent many years hating her but it is all insecurity and no one has ever loved her so she does not know how to love anyone else. I now feel sorry for her and whereas in the past her comments hurt I now laugh them off. Although it does hurt that she can show love to one of her daughters but not me.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 04/06/2006 23:07

My mother mispronounces ALOT of words.

Mostly we cant/dont correct her because she is hard of hearing (but refuses to wear an aid) and she takes it terribly terribly personally.

It particularly annoys me when she says Cellar-Riack (Celeriac).

twinsetandpearls · 04/06/2006 23:10

No I gave my books to charity - I do have too many, I have had boxes and boxes sat in the loft so I decided to get rid of some so I could get some books that I love down from the loft.

But I do love my books and although I knew it had to be done it did hurt. It pissed me off that for some daft reason I had taken to heart my Mum's critisism and spent two days trying to impress her and she still found fault. Very sill really as I know she struggles to praise people.

nannyme · 04/06/2006 23:11

I don't have any major complaints but god these things f*cking irk me!

Maybe I should start being grateful instead that she only says things stupidly rather than being wicked or cutting???

twinsetandpearls · 04/06/2006 23:14

I forgot another one of her great oneliners when I phoned her in floods of tears from the hospital in which I was having a breakdown to tell her my marraige was over she said,
"I always knew you wouldn't be able to keep an attractive man interested in you!"

Or on my wedding day,
"Your sister would have looked beautiful in that dress!"

Pruni · 04/06/2006 23:15

tsap

My dad: "You and (dh) have a wonderful relationship. Of course, it's all thanks to him..."

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ghosty · 04/06/2006 23:19

Ha ha ... my parents think my DH and my BIL are saints to be saddled with me and my Dsis

When I was suffering from PND everytime I had a cry on the phone to my mum she would listen and then say, "Poor Mr Ghosty, he is so patient!"

CountessDracula · 04/06/2006 23:21

fgs

I really hope my dd doesn't look down on me because I pronounce the odd word in a bizarre way when I am old

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twinsetandpearls · 04/06/2006 23:29

The thing that gets me is that my Mum has similar complaints about her own Mum. She thinks she is perfectly reasonable and that I am lucky to have her as she was determined not to re create her own mothers mistakes and be a good mother to us lot.

Well I think the same, I have learnt from my mother how not to behave and my dd is lucky ( most of the time) to have me so maybe I will turn into her.

nannyme · 04/06/2006 23:36

CD, I don't know that it is looking down on my mother as such, it is just really, really irritating to an all-consuming degree. Especially as one feels there is a deliberateness to it.

LeahE · 04/06/2006 23:39

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