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[quote=Anonymous]My mother tries to act like the queen who should be waited on and catered to.  I recall as a child MANY times where my mother would sit on the couch in the living room with her bare feet on it (illegal in our house, but I guess just illegal for the peasants), with an iced Coke with a straw that my brother or I brought her while he and I were dusting and vacuuming and how much PURE GLEE she had in her voice saying "You missed a spot."  She wouldn't even tell me where - she'd make me re-dust the whole dam room.

Once we totally humiliated her.  Her friend was over and our mom said that she'd been busy the prior week taking care of one of us because we'd been home sick.  We laughed and said, "No you didn't!" and she said, "Didn't I make you jello?" and we said, "No, Daddy did before he went to work." so she said "Didn't I make sure you took your medicine on time?" and we said, "No, we had to wake you up to tell you the time and ask if we could take it and then go write down the time."   And on and on.

She always acted like she was SO BUSY running our household.  But the truth is that she slept all morning, then made eggs and toast and brought the plate upstairs to EAT IN BED (also illegal for the peasants), then watch tv and nap, and she'd tell us to wake her up 15 minutes before our dad got home from work.  When he'd get home she'd be sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee and vaguely imply she had been busy furiously making calls.

Oh!  She also always implied she spent all day on hold or trying to make appointments.  Like we really believed she spent all day trying to make a haircut appointment or a vet appointment.  Same with doctors appointments.  My brother and I would spend five minutes on the phone, and it'd be done.  When we'd point that out to her she would be like "I guess you just called at the perfect time" or "I guess you have better luck than I do." [/quote]

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