not to understand this phone-call with my DM?

[ChristmasTrolleyRage]

Right 2/4 of the DCs are ill with lethargy, temperature, sickness and weakness.

DM phones to tell me about her "friend Tallulah, you know Tallulah, the one with the window boxes and the open top car (erm, noooooo ), well she was on the phone to her daughter in Bristol - you know, the one with the red kitchen and her friend was the one that ran off with the hairdresser to Australia (more ) well - she says her children have the same symptoms so I'm just phoning you to tell you it's obviously a nationwide disease and it's going round the country."

Silence.

Chaos struggles to think of what to say. (Rare)

"Oh er thanks for letting me know mom."

WTF was the point of it all?

What can I do with that information?

Huh?

Huh?

I am completely flummoxed.

Ha Ha HA HA HA!

Is she normally like that?

Bless

Well it made me laugh

Are you Irish? Cos that sounds remarkably like the conversations I have with my family. You just needed the:

"You knowwwwwwww, we went to their house when you were two. You know, they had the red front door..."

And repeat!

OMG pax!

Earlier today
Me: Hello?
MiL:Well {dniece} has come down with it now, really bad
Me: Whaaaa?
MiL: What {ds} and {dd} hve had, I thought I ought to let you know.
Me: Ok thanks, shall I call them? Although she hasn't seen the kids to catch it?
MiL: No, I know shes not caught it from yours, I thought you'd be pleased thoough that its a virus going round and not just something your two had.
Me: Whaaaaa?

Not just Ireland

My mum talks crap like this and phones to tell me obscure things too
but I still love her :)

My Mum does this all the time. The worst thing is that I've noticed a tendency in myself to do the same.

No not Irish sorry.

I was wondering if there was special medicine you could buy if it's a "nationwide disease that's going round the country".

@ this whole thread

But you must know the daughter in Bristol..you must...she has the red kitchen....I thought everyone knew her surely....

Weedle as an Irish person, I concur..my ma gets cross if I dont know them.."sure you know fidelma up the road..the one with the foxy head...you DO know her...she has the husband with the gimpy leg..."

PS hope they feel better soon.

i live in bristol...

Its a mother thing, they assume as you are their child you know everything they do by mystical osmosis.

And occasionally you do, which is why my mother once phoned me to ask

"what's the name of that actress? Old one. Was in the film with the window?

-at this point she had driven my father mad so called me-

I simply replied

"Audrey Hepburn. Breakfast at Tiffanys"

and hung up

You do know her MrsRhett she's the lady with the red kitchen...not to be confused with the woman with the blue kitchen..sure if you were thinking of the one with the blue kitchen its no wonder you dont know her at all.....

The red kitchen?

Now is he the lady whose youngest was involved with that group- you know the one- they like singing?

[grin} this is fab and it is 100% the sort of convos ive had both withmy mum and my MIL and I am left

each time

But now we know
that if we know anyone in Bristol who has a red kitchen
that their kids have a nationwide disease

no not burgundy

no not cerise

its the RED one

Ha ha ha.

Recent phone conversation with my mother, me trying to arrange what time to go round to help with the cooking for the Xmas party at the sheltered housing block where she lives.

DM: Hello, hello.
Me: Hi, what time do you want me to come round tomorrow.
DM: Whatever time you want.
Me: Well, what time is the party starting.
DM: Oh, I'm not sure.

Me: Well what time are you eating.
DM: Oh, not sure. Whenever it's ready I suppose.
Me: What time do you want to eat.
DM: Oh, whenever the others want to eat I suppose.

Me: Well if you want me to help with the cooking, it might be a good idea if I knew what time you are starting the cooking so I can be there in time to help.
DM: Oh, I'm not sure what time we are starting the cooking, when everyone is here I suppose.

This continued for some time. It was like pulling teeth.

omg. IT sounds like your two have got what me and DS2 have got. Whereabouts do you live?

Have just googled the symptoms. You might want to ring NHS Direct and seek advice. I think it's a cold

Christ almighty - does this mean we are all going to be the same?

I used to go on another forum - now defunct - and there were LOADS of posts almost every day saying

"I have xxx symptom, is there "something going around"...

Well love, I live in Aberdeen, you live in Devon....its unlikely you'll glean any information from my answer to that...

Conversations with my mum tend to be

'You remember Mrs X, you must remember, she had a brown coat, husband had those gloves, worked in the,er , office, er, you knew here when you were little, she had the son and the daughter, you MUST know her, her sister married that man with the leg, you know, you went to school with her niece, oh no, not you, that was your much older sister, but surely you remember too, anyway, Mrs X, I havent' seen her in ages, but you remember her yes ...''

I give in and admit yes, of course I know who she is.

Mum: Ah,I just thought I would tell you she was dead.

(hmm)

My mother does this. She tells me things and then initiates conversations with DB on the same topic, who she will then swear blind to that she has told. She then does the same thing to me about something she has told DB. She also calls my son DB2's name all the time.

LMAO...that's too much!