My mum is so so RUDE...tell me your horror storys.

[charliecat]

She butts into the kids conversations like they werent saying anything, she even done it today to a woman in the supermarket who I was talking too.
She farts loudly and doesnt even apologise. Thinks its amusing. Which in your front room it might be, but not in public FGS.
She trys to shame me in front of the neighbours by saying Oh have you not tidyed that up yet....
Please rant and make my mum seem insignificant.

Farts loudly in public? - I'm sorry but that's priceless

Dont laugh, this is in front of her Grandkids. even they are embarressed.

MIL - drinks sherry during the day and gets very loud

• she butts into everyones conversations
• she gets really p*** off that we won't allow her to smoke in front of DD

my mother

• told me on seeing a picture of her first grandchild that she looks fat and ginger (she was 6lbs and nearly bald)
• expects everyone to have a perfect son and daughter family like she did, and that you should only be "allowed" to have more than 2 kids if you have the misfortune of having two of the same sex
• thinks I starved DD by breastfeeding her, said I should put her on the bottle and make the hole bigger with a nail so I could feed her mashed up rusk in her milk
• thinks I deprive DD by not giving her tea
• told all her friends I was a lesbian as I had never had a boyfriend (not that I would have brought one home)
• weaned me at 8 weeks on potatoes and mince ( I was premature)
• working mothers should not be allowed children if they are not prepared to look after them and that women that work are selfish as they want too much

oh i could be here all day

oh Sweetkitty If i ever end up like my mum I will seriously end my life.

but please don't sweetkitty!

Does it smell ?

Badly

Ugghh - that's vile. Sympathies

My mother chucked me out when I changed my mind about going to university and had got myself a job instead.
She got drunk at my DD1's christening and started an argument about women vicars with the female vicar.
She refused to see me and DD's last week because her hair had been cut too short.
Thats just a selection of stories.

When I said she was rude earlier with the woman in the supermarket she puffed up like a chicken ruffling its feathers. I wanted to deck her. Any more?!

My mum is not that bad really but she does talk over the top of dd2 (to be fair, she is very talkative!!). When she did it the other day, I waited until she had finished, then said pointedly, "sorry, dd2, carry on with what you were saying"

Dm had the decency to apologise!

Only just found this and had to post. Don't have a mum but my MIL is shocking.

-smokes and drinks

• farts loudly in public -burps loudly in public -scratches "herself" in public -talks really loudly and disagrees with everyone -made dh buy his father's things when his father died -sleeps around -now has genital warts!!!! -gambles - has lost house, furniture all money and owes us thousands

do I need to go on!!!!!!!!!

You mean there's more?!

I think perhaps when you get older the "polite" button is switched off. I don't have stories of foulness but my Dm and grandmother have both become very rude in terms of what they think they can say to members of their family as they;ve aged. So we get "ooh you've gone fat. I say, you'll be divorcing her if she gets any bigger!"; constantly (and I think deliberately) "forgetting" the names of children and grandhcildren's partners; asking loudly who's been eating garlic; telling people to shut up mid conversation because "it's boring and noone wants to hear it"; talking in another language about our partners knowing we can understand but they can't, and so on. I'm hoping I've inherited that gene .

My gran used to do the butting in thing - but not just to children, to anyone. Got worse as she got older. Think when you are a bit socially isolated you tend to talk, talk, talk when you get the chance.
Farting's a bit yucky though. My mother sneers at people in public... and gets very obviously angry with bad service, muttering to herself. Instead of just addressing the problem politely. Often find myself smiling pathetically at shop assistants and waiters trying to compensate, even when we've waited half an hour or more for our order, because she is soooo nasty about it. She's definitely got more intolerant as she's got older (and she's only 59 - God knows what she'll be like by the time she's 80)...

My step MIL (loving known as Step Witch From Hell) is so excruciatingly embarrassing that I stopped seeing her about 18 months ago.
She is very quiet when sober but when drunk (which is often) is a nightmare.
I have had the pleasure of seeing her show everyone at a party (in the middle of the day) the scars left by her wonderful surgeon who did her boob job ...
I have seen her barred from a nice restaurant at lunchtime for disorderly behaviour and foul language to the staff.
She has shouted the 'C' word in front of my (then) 3 year old son.
She snogged (tongues and all) my cousin (20 years younger than her) at my wedding ...
I could go on ...

Just think, everyone with loudly farting mums and MILS: your kids won't do that! It won't be cool to fart, it'll be something gran does!

Just trying to see the light side ... it is frustrating when people's tact disappears.

My Mum makes it very obvious that she is not listening to people when they are talking & often, when you are half way through a conversation, she will pipe up "Changing the subject...!"
Once, she asked dh a question about his job & just as he started to answer her, she walked out of the room!!!!
She also picks her toe nails & her scalp (Yuk!) & doesn't care who's sofa she is sitting on while she does this!!!

I actually like my MIL. She has her annoying points, but nothing as excrutiating as these.

I dislike my friend's mother. I couldn't put my finger on exactly what but then I started to realise it was because she never really listened to anything I said, just pretended to take an interest. I talked with friend's DH (so HIS MIL) and he said it drove him nuts and once he told her all about breaking his leg and the pain he was in, clearly standing in front of her with NO broken leg in plaster, and she just kept saying Hmmm. Yes. Oh dear... ????

Sure you are not talking about my Mum there catbert?!!!

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at a go
or only bread and pickles for a week
and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
and pay our rent and not swear in the street
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

In a restaurant last week (LOUDLY):

"I'm not saying that all homosexuals are paedophiles.."

(sound of pin dropping)

morningpaper ... PMSL ... that reminds me of my uncle ...
[posh upper class ex RAF accent} "Homosexuals ... didn't have 'em in my day you know ... I don't have anything against them but it is the buggery aspect of it I don't understand!"
This was over sunday lunch with the whole family.
My brother and I had to leave the room we were laughing so hard!
Sorry, off topic ...
Carry on ...

When announcing my second pregnancy to my family my Mother told me 'oh no, haven't you heard of contraception!' 'Why do you want another one?'

My DH's mother has told me every time I've seen her for the last 6 months I look sick.

I love my family and have endless story to tell.