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My mother's best pronouncement yet

44 replies

Georgimama · 16/08/2011 21:39

I'm not even asking if IABU, I know I'm not. I'm just posting this here for the enjoyment of the maximum number of MNers.

Today DD (aged 2 weeks) was wearing a very pretty sleepsuit in a cream sprigged print with tiny pink flowers on it. DM admired it. I said "yes, it is pretty, actually this print looks familiar to me, I'm sure I had a nightie in a print like this when I was little." DM agreed it did look familiar and this was entirely possible.

A couple of hours later, in the middle of a conversation about something else entirely, DM piped up "I remember where I've seen that print before now - (name of undertakers in home town) always had shrouds made of a fabric exactly like that."

When I had recovered sufficiently I replied "please feel free to keep information like that to yourself in future DM".

OP posts:
CheerfulYank · 17/08/2011 08:07

Well, my grandmother once sang some lovely little song about jam and jelly whilst jovially shaking my mummy-tummy.

Evil cow

Catsu · 17/08/2011 08:14

My mums bonkers too. Always coming out with things like that.
When i told her what our name choice is for the baby I am pg with she said 'that name always makes me think of a girl with long straight pubes I went to school with'

CheerfulYank · 17/08/2011 08:16

PMSL Catsu ! Why, oh why would she say that?

Thumbwitch · 17/08/2011 08:20

Georgi - as you know, YANBU. Your ma really could have kept that gem to herself.

Some people have no idea of appropriacy or context - tis very sad for them to be so ignorant.

SGertie · 17/08/2011 08:23

Catsup I think you win! Rofl!!
OP that would have really pissed me off, what an inappropriate thk g to say

SGertie · 17/08/2011 08:24

Grr, stupid iPhone thing not those random letters...

Original poster
Georgimama · 17/08/2011 08:37

Catsu wins, definitely. Long straight pubes beats shroud babygro. We could print these little gems on cards and sell them as "Mad Mother Top Trumps".

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chenin · 17/08/2011 08:40

Went to see my dear Aunt, bless her... she hugged me and said 'oh I DID prefer you when you were really FAT'. Hahahaha... I had lost weight so coped with that remark!

Anniegetyourgun · 17/08/2011 10:27

Little pink flowers on shrouds, is it even likely?

kazmus · 17/08/2011 10:42

How about, 'you must have done something awful, cos the sins of the parents are always visited on the children' when dd was diagnosed with severe heart problems...my now exml thank god!

droves · 17/08/2011 11:20

My mother is worse that all of yours .
Seriously , she is evil bonkers.

Her "finest moment" , was to say to my older sister "you shouldnt have let the doctors do a post-mortam on that baby ...they will have kept bits of her , pickeld in jars ."

This was on the morning of DSIS baby`s funeral , as we were waiting for the hearse . Sad Sad Sad.

Neadless to say i no longer have contact with my mother.

knobbysEx · 17/08/2011 11:26

A friend of minehas a MIL who says the strangest things.
After the trauma of an ectopic pregnancy (that the surgeon said was the biggest he'd seen, she was lucky she hadn't died) my friend got pregnant again. On telling her MIL the good news, MIL said "Well I hope THIS one's in the right place!"

BeStillMyBeatingFart · 17/08/2011 11:42

Undertakers use polythene these days, not even sheets.

When they did use sheets they were plain white ones, not pink Cath Kidson styl prints!

dolldaggabuzzbuzz · 17/08/2011 11:59

My MIL bought DS a present before he was born and was so excited about it that she told me she had bought him something but that it was bad luck to give gifts before the birth so she would give it to him once he was born.

I am not normally a superstitious person and I did not know about this old wives tale but having lost my previous pregnancy I didn't bother to say oh I don't believe in all that mumbo jumbo (which I don't). However, before she left she said oh sod it I can't resist and gave me the toy. She said if anything happens, I've got the receipt and will be able to get my money back!

The next time I saw her she said 'Is he still alive and kicking then?'.

Thumbwitch · 17/08/2011 12:20

I think Droves' ma has taken the lead for sheer bloody insensitivity, although dolldagga's MIL isn't far behind.

Livinginoz · 17/08/2011 12:35

At least your DM comes out with stuff that is interesting

I get this:
"You remember don't you? You know, the one that went to your school [about 8 years after me]"
"No mum I don't"
"Well, anyway, her sister's boyfriend's mother did ........[something very boring and random]"

A variation of this conversation happens every time I call home!

TheFlyingOnion · 17/08/2011 12:49

Livinginoz my DM does that ALL the time:

"You remember, she was a couple of years younger than DB in primary? Her mum helped at playgroup? She had the sister that went to Ireland? You do! You do! Brown hair! Long! You do!

Well anyway her sister's dog has just had puppies"

NO I don't remember this random punter from 25 years ago and NO I don't care that her dog's just had puppies....

aStarInStrangeways · 17/08/2011 12:52

My stepmum decided that clearing out my late mother's pots and pans from the kitchen cupboards was the perfect opportunity to state how much of a slattern my mum had been. I was 14, mum had been dead for about a week.

MorelliOrRanger · 17/08/2011 13:39

Some of these are so sad and I think Droves mum beats everyone else, that is just vile. Also astars SM not far behind that. Sad - how can people be so bloody thoughtless.

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