My mother annoys me because.......

[Pruni]

She pronounces urine and genuine as "yoo-righn" and "jen-yoo-wine".
She cackles, throws her head back and cackles and waves her feet in the air when laughing.
She holds her knife like a pen.
And she pokes me, prods me, brushes my hair off my face and examines me for fat deposits.
And finishes my sentences - wrongly, every f**king time.
I could go on.
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wordsmith my mother went on a week's course to learn how to use the internet and still doesn't know what a search engine is. what on earth was she doing?

she does switch her phone on now, in fact she is obsessive about it. whereas pils insisted on being bought one each for xmas and never switch it on. once we went to a shopping centre with them and tried to organise how long we would all be and where we should meet up again; dh said 'you've got your mobile, so phone us when you're ready' to which fil spluttered 'What? It's not an emergency!'

My mum uses her mobile phone in the manner of someone in a 1943 film. She holds at arm's length and peers at it mistrustfully before dialling. You almost think she's going to pick it up and say 'Operator, I wish to make a trunk call to Westbury 263' in BBC English. Shouting, of course.

And if you ever ring her on it she answers it in a tone of total panic. Because you'd only be phoning to tell her something catastrophic had happened, right??

orlando lol

my mother always presses the green dial/ hang-up button three times, really hard, to end a call, while staring at it similarly to yours

how many times do I need to tell her only to press it once? it irritates me soooo much I sometimes need to leave the room

also when telesales people ring her she doesn't just say no thank you and puts the phone down, she chats to them for a while whilst vaguely sounding interested and then turns on them like some feral creature for no good reason and actually shouts at them for their 'aggressive sales techniques', slams the phone down and then stomps off into the kitchen to test her blood pressure with her little digital monitor

well actually I've only seen her do this twice but honestly

LO very L, cappucino.

And the medical stuff. Ye gads. The gadgets. It's the OAP equivalent of the dds Bratz accessories. One of them gets something-- they all want it.

mother has started wanting one of \link{http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/0450306/Trail/C%24cip%3D36237.Sports%2Band%2Bleisure%3EC%24cip%3D36253.Living%2Baids%3EC%24cip%3D36254.Mobility%2Band%2Bhome%2Bhelp.htm\these} because she has so much crap in her room she needs to start piling it on top of her bed

also has that medical gadget feel

My mum annoys me because she is more computer literate than me and even has her own web site. That's just not right is it :o

LOL at your post orlando. If we go out and my mum phones, she says
"you didn't tell me you were going out" followed by
"who was that person babysitting for you? Do you know them, how can you trust them?"

I once said
"No mum, i don't know them, i stood at the front door and shouted on a complete stranger to come in a nd sit with the kids". I then got told i was rude and had upset her!

When i was pregnant with DS1, she used to phone at breakfast, lunch, and teatimes and about 9pm every single day to "see how you are". It was my birthday and we went out for a meal to a Chinese place. We got back about 11pm, to fine 18 messages on the phone, asking if i had gone into early labour and why had no one told her. Next morning we were woken by Dh's workmates (he's military) because she had phoned his boss (still don't know how she got his number) and demanded that someone come round our house to see if i was ok

lol at all the parents and gadgets

my FIL has a pc, he has only ever used it to play solitaire

he goes on hundreds of holidays, i keep telling him he should book them via the internet, but he insists on going to the travel agents

"I go and book it with Margaret at the travel agents, she knows what i like"

margaret can see him coming a mile off

he still cant get the www. business

i have to spell it out for him and he still asks "is it all lower case? no spaces?"

he phoned the other day saying he had "wiped out the internet"

he had been looking at a hotel website, something had happened and the page had disappeared, he was almost phoning the hotel to apologise for breaking their website LOL

and why do they turn the phone off? drives me batty, also the all have home phones that MUST be returned to the base after each use, for some strange reason

my dad is the worst for the remote control, he insists it is kept on top of the telly, whats the point of having a REMOTE control if you have to get up and walk over to the telly to change channels?

My parents are jealous of my inlaws. They can't bear the fact that my dd and ds have other grandparents - they think they "belong" to them. .

oh thats so sad fimbo

my dd's only have one gran, they have 2 grampas but one is so ill he cant play or look after them

my nephew doesnt have any grans

its so sad

when he comes round to mine he asks my mum if he can call her gran

mums eyes well up

my mil got really upset when she realised that her computer saved files

she got it to write her letters

'I don't want them to save! I just want them to go away! I don't want it to do that!'

I feel sad for your nephew NP.

I guess my parents are the way they are because I am an only child. They can't bear to share me in any way. My dh is convinced they hate him. We are going on holiday for a week with my pil in July and have to be careful what we say. There is loads more, but I will fill this thread!

tell them life is too short for ridiculous things like jealousy

what a waste of time feeling like that, fimbo

they are depriving themselves of an extended family

dh's family are EXTREMELY formal (including with each other) and i keep thinking they are all depriving themselves of hugs and kisses. when MIL died dh went to hug his dad and his dad held out his hand for a handshake dh was so upset

anyway, enough of this sad talk, i need to go and shop for these shoes, fimbo!

I have tried (and dh has tried) on various occasions but it's like hitting your head off a brick wall and then the major sulks start........anyway enough.

GO SHOP - Throw some shoes my way in the passing please.

What is it with parents and mobiles? I once arranged to meet Mum and Dad at a carboot sale but they got a bit lost. I tried to ring them but, quelle surprise, no answer. We eventually found each other they insisted the phone wasn't ringing but it was making a funny bleeping noise and saying something about incoming calls .....

Oh, and then there's my mother's habit of when she's been out for a meal, she'll ring me and tell me not only what she ate for every course in exacting detail but what everyone else ate and what was on the menu but she didn't eat - wtf??

My mum did answer her mobile phone when I called once. I nearly fainted. She had taken DS1 out for the day and was at the Sea Life Centre. I phoned to see how they were getting on. She answered it very cautiously, as though she couldn't work out what it was, then she said, "Oh, it's you! I heard this funny noise coming from my bag - it was vibrating!!! - and I didn't know what it was!"

Then she forgot to switch off after the call and every time I picked up the phone for the next two hours all I heard was the sounds of her handbag.

My DH tried to explain to my mum, in easy words, how the internet worked. Her main concern was how so many pictures and words got sent down the phone line without interfering with phone calls, and what would happen if someone dialled 999 and couldn't get through because the phone line was jammed with pictures!!!

My parents in law went abroad today - flight departed at 3pm, they arrived at airport at 9.30am - just in case!

My mother annoys me because

if I am busy when she phones and I can't talk she'll sulk, but if it's the other way round......
she always favours and spoils my brother, even when he's being an a*se, he lived at home until he was 29, I wonder why?

she also talks at me on the phone, example below,
during my first OFSTED she rang and this was the conversation
DM - so how's it going?
ME - not too bad.
DM - well.......( insert a lot of talking about my brothers tooth and how awful it is for him and how much it hurts).....Maybe you should send him a get well card.
ME - OK, bye then.

Love her really

My mother annoys me because she never listens to you when you try & talk to her and always comes out with the very irritating line of "changing the subject..." when you are halfway through your conversation!
She annoys me because she doesn't have DS2 anywhere near as often as she does DS1
She needs to be constantly praised
She is very false!

Blueteddy, are we sisters, my mom doesn't seem as intersted in ds2 and is always chaging the sunject to what she wants to talk about. As for constant praise, the worst mistake I ever made was asking her to diet with me in the run up to my wedding...
How much have you lost? Oh is that all? Well I've lost......!