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To not want a photo of me in front of the tv

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Nopicsplease · 22/04/2024 12:39

Name changed as this could be outing. Last year, we went to my mum's to watch the coronation. At the very moment that the crown was being lowered onto the kings head, my mum asked me to sit in front of the TV so she could take a photo of me next to the TV image of the king. I said "no, I'd like to watch this bit". This made my mum unhappy and she sulked for the rest of the day. As it happens I had already agreed to have such a photo taken earlier in the ceremony, even though I was still in my pjs. A year later she brings this incident up in arguments as an example of me being difficult. In her view, it was selfish and rude of me to say no to a simple request and that anyone else would have posed without argument. Was I unreasonable?

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VestPantsandSocks · 22/04/2024 12:44

Your mum is weird. HTH 😉

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 22/04/2024 12:44

What? 🤣

Aquamarine1029 · 22/04/2024 12:43

This is so weird I can't even get my head around it. She's still beating you with this stick a YEAR later? Absolute madness, and you are not at fault here.

PeaceOnThePorch · 22/04/2024 12:43

This can’t be real. If it is, your mum is fucking mad.

ByUmberViewer · 22/04/2024 12:43

DanceMove · 22/04/2024 12:41

This is the weirdest thing ever -- your mother wanted to take two different photographs of you in front of the TV during the coronation? Was it a proof of life photo for a ransom demand or something???

Grin I think you're both unbelievably weird. Your mum for taking the photos and you for telling people what she did.

BoohooWoohoo · 22/04/2024 12:42

I would have turned it around and said I’d take a photo of her instead.

Its a bizarre argument

DanceMove · 22/04/2024 12:41

This is the weirdest thing ever -- your mother wanted to take two different photographs of you in front of the TV during the coronation? Was it a proof of life photo for a ransom demand or something???