I don't usually get offended easily but there was an incident at home recently.
I live at home. In recent years I fell in love with making homemade soups. It's often inexpensive, tasty, nutritious, filling and there's enough soup for a few days. I love looking for different soup recipes. It's so easy too. Typically it's cooking some veg in a pot, adding a liquid stock and blending it all up. It's so easy.
I live at home with my mother and there was a cooking show on TV and the cook was making a homemade courgette soup. It looked interesting. I never would have thought about using courgette in a soup and it definitely peaked my interest in the show. My mother sat watching the cooking show criticising his soup and criticising homemade soup in general saying something like
'who in their right mind would go to all the bother of making a homemade soup...theres too much trouble in it....when all you can do is buy a packet or can of soup.' So she said what she wanted to say and then the worst part was she said it again and then turned her words around to say it again in a different way. She knows I love making homemade soups and all she did was criticise the making of homemade soups. The issue was she became so vocal about something so minor. It's a soup on TV. I felt to some degree she was trying to critise me and my liking towards making soups. There was definitely something there in her at that time and I saw it in her face. Her face was bitter. It was horrible.
It was later that night when I became disappointed because I just let it slide when I should I have answered her back and said something like - 'what is the point of watching cooking shows if your not going to make anything from them.'