I tried to be a good son and check in with mom everyday when Pop passed. But she was curt and cold in return and I just gave up. She can call me if she needs anything, and I’ll be there to help. If that old bitch falls down the stairs and dies and goes to hell…there was a time I’d have gone down to the bar and bought a round for the house to celebrate. But now? I’d just shrug, and maybe wish we’d been able to be better friends. It’s not all bad… she came over yesterday and told me I might need to mow her lawn next week. I said I’d do it but she had to pay off with coffee and cookies and babysit the niglet while I do it. I know she’ll bitch about the job I did afterward but, meh - I don’t care. I will do the best I can.
I hope that your mother was one of the good ones, and that you can be close to her today. If not…this kinda stuff often eventually works out. Give your Mom my regards, by her some flowers and be her good son if you can.
Cheers
Filthie
I let it go in one ear and out the other now or say yes Ms. Daisy in a sarcastic tone.
ReplyDeleteIt will turn to shit once the last of the silents are gone and the functional boomers hang it up.
Always a feature and never a bug.
Chaos is a ladder. (honk honk)
Amen ST.
ReplyDeleteGlen is that you? Sure sounds like you. This is Thatcher from CPI. Hope you are doing well.
DeleteSure is, Thatcher! It is so good to see you again! I hope you had a great Mother's Day!
DeleteI dropped by the old CPI board and the place is just dead. That is unfortunate, they used to be a great bunch of people...
Yes, I had a very good day yesterday. I think Gator is still posting at another Canadian board that survived.
DeleteEver make it to Texas? As I recall you wanted to move there at one time.
My mom's been gone almost 5 years now. She was a very kind, sweet soul. Happy Mother's Day to your mom.
ReplyDeleteAnd same to you Sarah - thanks for stopping in!
DeleteI can relate. My Mom passed of pancreatic cancer in 2019. She was a devoted, hard-working lady, but she was also a nag and a drama queen. I hope I can forgive her before I join her.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn’t matter M. Sure you’d like to forgive (and I only barely managed it with God’s help)…but if it doesn’t happen…don’t sweat it. These things can be worked out in the world that comes after this one - or so I’m told. Your mileage will vary…😊👍
DeleteMine is still alive I think; last time I talked to her was over a decade ago. My last words were telling her to never come near my family again. My mom made my childhood unpleasant, the things she did later made me decide my kids were better off not having her in their lives.
ReplyDeleteHonestly i'm closer to the mother in law than i was ever was to the women who birthed me.
Exile1981
Who was it? Jung? The old nickel goes that we are not the sum of what happened to us - we are what we choose to become. And some folks are just better off left in the rear view mirror....
DeleteMy Mom was a Saint, born in 1913, died in 1977. She was a West Virginia coal minors daughter, before it was cool. All her male relatives died from black lung, or was it whyte privilege?
ReplyDeleteShe was smart and wise, warned me about the Catholic Church when I was 14 (1965). She (we) were Church of Christ, once she detected the hypocrisy/churchianity, it was find a new church time.
She's probably the main reason my mostly wonderful wife and I are still together after 48 years.
I still miss her.
Yeah I don't get it Mike. If anyone in the world deserved a wretched, spiteful mutant of an ex-wife ... I suppose it would be me. But my marriage was mostly the stuff of love songs and fairy tales. We had a rough patch where bad actors in the family tried to ruin it but somehow emerged, even better off than before. Your Mom sounds a lot like my grandmother.
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