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

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Pruni · 04/06/2006 22:49

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.
[rictus grin]

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blueteddy · 05/06/2006 17:47

Oh no, poor you! There is another mother like mine!! Very irritating isn't it?
Full sympathies!

wanderingstar · 05/06/2006 17:50

Bran I didn't know I had a sister - you are she !

My mum does exactly what yours does.

Also I recognise the "suspended" sentence thingy; no simple sentence can be completed without about a dozen tangents and extraneous facts/opinions/asides being brought in. It makes my head hurt, it really does. Sadly I don't phone her as often as she'd like me to, because I just haven't time to listen to malarkey concerning "Mavis from the choir who married your uncle Ted's friend from that house on our corner", when (a)she means her corner 50 years ago,(b) I may have met mavis as a toddler but certainly don't remember her and most annoyingly (c) her sentence was meant to be about something else entirely !

Maybe I'm a real cow but I don't always manage to follow it all/ keep my patience with her.

Cappucino · 05/06/2006 17:56

years ago my mother taught me to just say 'oh' when my grandma went on and on

now she gets really peeved if I do it to her

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Pruni · 05/06/2006 17:57

You know the scary thing is, we will be like this one day soon.
[doom emoticon]

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nailpolish · 05/06/2006 17:58

do you think we wil still all be here on MN

Cappucino · 05/06/2006 17:58

pruni we need a doom emoticon!

kate100 · 05/06/2006 18:00

Oh God!!!! The thought of turning into my mother and being unable to stop talking has filled me with dread.

blueteddy · 05/06/2006 18:01

If I ever start to turn into mine, I have asked that someone shoots me!!

kate100 · 05/06/2006 18:03

I'll do it blueteddy, if you do the same for me

blueteddy · 05/06/2006 18:11

Okay - deal!!!

southeastastra · 05/06/2006 18:24

she is not here anymore to nag me about smoking and dentists

Blandmum · 05/06/2006 18:36

She doesn't know who I am.

She never learned ds's name

She is old and frail and ill, and totaly out of her mind, has no idea who or where she is, let alone anyone else.

And now it is too late to build bridges and mend old ills, and patch up quarels.

And I hate myself for being spineless and critical of her when she is so ill, and demented.

Whatever they say or do girls, and I know just how fucking awful they can be, say everthing you need to now. Because the time may come when nothing you can say to her will get through, and nothing she says will ever make any sense ever again.

notanotter · 05/06/2006 18:38

She had four children despite hating all children and the world

LotosEater · 05/06/2006 18:39

wanderingstar - mine is exactly the same as well.

sunnydelight · 05/06/2006 18:52

This really isn't a sympathy call but I am in tears readeing this beacuse I so wish my mum was still alive to annoy me in any way she would have liked!

frogs · 05/06/2006 18:52

She was not a great mum, and has said some unforgiveable things to me in her time.

However she has done her damndest to be a seriously good granny, and has a policy of never commenting on her children's childrearing policies other than to say how delightful our children are and what fantastic parents we are.

And she's just had all mine to stay for the whole of half term so that dh and I could go away for a child-free holiday in the sun.

So, frankly, she can mispronounce anything she darn well pleases.

glassofwine · 05/06/2006 19:18

Frogs - my long lost sister. My mum was a really useless mum, but is now a great granny. Also has the kids a lot, babysits on New years Eve! Still, I can't quite get over how crap she was/is with me and then feel guilty because she helps so much.

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Pruni · 06/06/2006 07:02

What a mixed thread. mb so sorry about your mum. And sorry for all of you who'd love to have your mum around.

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ernest · 06/06/2006 08:02

blimey, nannyme, I know a thee-etter sayer too & it winds me up no end. but it's my lovely mil who's ill so I can't laugh at her anymore. thee-etter (shudder) and reech instead of retch.

my mum is a slow, mumbly dozy arse who needs a rocket up her bum. she put work before her kids & grandkids. ALways favours my sister, even tho she's a cow. and she & her dh are so bloody mumbly. Can't understand a bloody word they say.

booge · 06/06/2006 08:09

She never lets me forget I was a difficult teenager and she her had to put up with me and what a saint she was not to kick me out. She accuses me of always thinking I'm right when it is also one of her faults. She has always favoured my brother although she was upset when her mother seemed to favour my uncle. She does a poor me act. She goes on about her health but won't visit a DR. She always phones when I've just got in. She obviously adores DS to the point where sometimes I wonder if she is even going to say hello to me when she comes to see us. God I could go on and on, for some reason I always get most irritated with her when I'm pg.

2shoes · 06/06/2006 08:40

enjoy them while you can. my mum died when I was 18 and not a day goes by when I don't wish she was here to annoy me.

WelshBoris · 06/06/2006 08:44

Saltire, your mum sounds lovely, caring and lovely

My mum annoys me because she eats too loud, and talks with her mouth full. She also thinks every man apart from my dad and brothers are pervs because they stare at me in ASDA.

"Mum Im wearing shorts and a vest top, of course theyre going to stare"

But, if it wasnt for her my childcare costs would double, I would have no social life, she did my washing for 2 weeks when my machine broke down, I honestly couldnt live without her

And the way her face lights up when DD bounces into the living room is worth all the annoying habits in the world

booge · 06/06/2006 10:13

I'm very sorry for everyone who's lost their Mother, I lost my Father and of course I understand you wish they were still here or still healthy and it must be galling to see us whinging. However a moan like this is cathartic, it's always the people we love the most who drive us round the bend. Perhaps we should have a I appreciate my Mother because... thread running in tandem.

jamese · 06/06/2006 15:31

booge, i still enjoyed reading this thread although i lost my mum in December. It made me cry of course, but could still laught at some of the comments.

It is hard though, as on the one hand I understand the winges (and certainly had them in my time) on the other hand I do sometimes want to shout out at least you have your mum...

But on the most past, I read, enjoy, wish and then pick another thread...

Lets be honest her, people who no longer have their mums around, didn't have to read this thread...

But I also agree, when our mums (or dads) and in my case both are no longer around, these whinges can sound very trivial.

saltire · 06/06/2006 18:29

welshboris, she is lovely, she just winds me up. I still love her though, i realise there are people who don't have their mums anymore and it must be sad for them, i don't have my dad and wish i did. However most of this thread is just us having a wee moan about our mum's.

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