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To find my mother's obsession with being "posh" really bloody annoying

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EmilyRH · 27/08/2020 13:09

My mother seems to have an obsession with everyone thinking she is "posh" and I'm starting to find it really bloody annoying. This morning she asked to take my son to McDonald's next week (his naughty favourite!) and I made a joke asking if she was getting me McDonald's too Grin her response, "You can eat in the rough McDonald's where you live, I will take DS to the posh McDonald's around my area." There is a posh McDonald's? 😂 She is constantly telling everyone how nice the area she lives in is (and how not nice mine is!), how the people are "just different" where she lives, how they dress better, etc. I've noticed when we go out, she will be very polite to staff if we are eating in a fancy restaurant, but rude and ignorant to staff in a fast food place, for example. This really bothers me. I've tried to ignore it over the years but she seems to be getting worse. Why is she so fixated on people thinking she is some kind of upper class?! The irony is, she was on benefits my whole childhood!

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dottiedodah · 01/11/2020 08:17

I think the fact she was on benefits while you were growing up, speaks volumes really .She feels superior now she isnt presumably, and also wants to feel she has "made it" by living in what she sees as a "naicer area"! A bit like the North /South divide really, where everyone north of Newport Pagnell lives in a shed and there are no nice Semis or Detached homes there ,and everyone South of London lives in a lovely house!

Justnotfeelingit · 01/11/2020 08:32

I was going to agree with ‘the posh end of fife’. Surely it’s the St Andrews end, versus the end with Cowdenbeath, Kelty etc?

josbd · 01/11/2020 15:13

[quote Mammylamb]@josbd yes! The north east is posh. St Andrews, Newport on Tay, Guardbridge, Crail etc[/quote]
Ahhh, tis my misfortune to live in the defnotposh Glenrothes, see!

Sweetpea1532 · 01/11/2020 15:15

What a great topic for a doctoral thesis!

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