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| My mom always told me eating cookie dough would give me worms. To this day, every time I eat cookie dough ice cream, I hear her voice telling me "You'll get worms!" |
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| Whenever there was a lice announcement at school, my mom would treat us all, even if we did'nt have any. Then she would wash everything in hot water, and basically freak out. All over an alert! I never had lice by the way. |
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My mother also adds an S to all store names like this. As a passenger in a car, she reads aloud all the signs as you pass them, like "oh, Paneras Bread. Best Buys. United States Post Office. Hmmm." It's incredibly annoying! |
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They should get jobs as cosmetologists. |
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My mom called me outraged the other day because a high school acquaintance 1) sent her a political email and 2) use the TO line instead of the BCC line.
Do you know how many freakin times over the years I have had to ask my mom to 1) not send me political or impersonal group emails/forwarded emails and 2) out of respect for privacy, please use the BCC line? Anyway it's not such an issue with my mom now because she has discovered facebook. Now she spends all day posting dozens of political items. My friends all laugh. One of my friend's mom is the "Jesus" mom, always posting about Jesus. My mom is the liberal political mom. |
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| My father always calls Olive Garden "the Green Olive". |
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My parents rinsed out used plastic bags to reuse. My dad washed his hair with soap to save money on shampoo. My mom was afraid to get on the freeway and would stop at the end of the entrance ramp waiting for a break in the traffic rather than merging.
They have both now passed away, and, God, I wish they were around to kid them about their habits. |
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My mom was always obsessed with sunburn. Never go to to the pool between 10 and 2 and goodness, never ever go to the beach.
To this day, I do little tests. I mention going to the beach and see how long it is before she says "sunburn." Usually the first thing out of her mouth. |
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But I bet your skin is lovely? Signed, a mom who takes her kids to the beach every year, we use sunblock although it's not as effective as not going to the beach at all |
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My mom mixes cold cereal when there isn't enough left in the box for a full bowl.
She hangs laundry when it's too cold to dry (frozen jeans = not fun). She kept the house at 65 when we were growing up (we had a line on the thermostat and weren't allowed to turn it past) but now complains it's cold when my heat is set to 70. She only buys jeans at Wal-Mart. |
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My mother invites everyone she meets... and I mean EVERYONE... to come visit her. If she strikes up a conversation with the mailman, she says "we live in Racoons Backside, TN. It's so lovely. You should come visit." And THEN, if she happens to see that person on a subsequent visit, say some casual acquaintance of mine, she says "why haven't you come to visit yet??"
I get that it's her way of making conversation, but it's so terribly uncomfortable. She also asks everyone who looks non-aryan or speaks with any kind of accent where they're from. Without fail. Basically, she has no social filter whatsoever. But she's friendly, so that's nice... I guess. |
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My father pronounces merlot with the "t", as in "mer lot." And he spoke Italian and French before he learned English. We've given up trying to correct it.
My mother has been putting "I can't believe its not butter" spray on her morning toast for about 20 years. Hasn't made a dent in her waistline, but she won't stop. (Much rather have her dunking her toast in coffee!) |
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| My mom has to deliberately mispronounce everyone's name. Tricia gets called Pat-reece-ia. Karen is Co-reena. No, she's not European. She's simply irritating. |
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Woa. This is a pet peeve of mine. I deliberatel did not name dd Sarah b/c my mother mispronounces it like Serra! I was looking at spelling it Zarah to make her pronounce it right, but I gave up |
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Umm... Sarah IS pronounced like Serra. 
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