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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I totally get it OP. My parents do the same thing. They invite us to dinner at their house, set up a slideshow on the tv [b]and tell us every little detail. Of every single day. I'm happy to listen for 15-20 minutes, but enough already.[/b] We are family and I love them, but I think anything more than 20 minutes is excessive and frankly RUDE. It's inappropriate to wax on and on and on about your good fortune to anyone, family or not. Some details are ok, but there's a limit. Especially when the person you're addressing isn't able to afford what you did/bought/experienced. It's like the friends on Facebook with the excessive pics of the ins and outs of every day of their vacation.

OP, I'd be dreading it too. I like the idea of setting a time limit "I only have 15 minutes"... In my case, we bring our young kids to my parents post-trip dinners, and the kids need our attention/help/etc after about 15 min, so it's a natural break.

You're human OP! [/quote]

See, I think that's a separate issue.  No one really wants to sit and listen anyone talk for an hour about their vacation, and no one wants to look at the 300 photos you took, but that's separate from being unwilling to listen to your mom talk about the fun thing she just did.  It sounds like OP just doesn't want to hear about the trip at all, which is sad.  I mean, I'm low on vacation and money is tight, but when my mom went to Turkey for two weeks with her best friend, I did want to hear about it when she came back.  She was excited and happy, and I was excited and happy for her.  Yeah, I would have liked to have gone, too, but I couldn't, and that wasn't her fault, so why should I begrudge her her enjoyment?[/quote]

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