Just a general rant about mother-isms.

Liz3yy

hoyles10 wrote: »

I know i'll miss it when she's gone and I shouldn't really moan about it. My dad died 7 years ago when I was 23 and i'd give anything for him to ring about something pointless.

The most annoying thing mum used to do was when I was still living at home, i'd go out on a Friday night and usually get in about 5am Saturday morning then at about 9am mum would come and wake me up because the postman had been and I had a letter. I usually ended up apologising for being grumpy when I got up at lunch time.

Those were of course in the days when the post used to arrive in the morning

Ha ha, my Dad used to do that! (bless his soul)

When I lived with them, I would often go out with friends on Saturday evenings and be back well after midnight. Dad would get up at 7am the next day and wake me up with a cuppa! he thought as he was up I should be as well! I didn't have the heart to tell him off for it

sazzybum

Am I the only softie both laughing AND crying at this thread?? Haven't even had any wine yet either...;)

hoyles10

sazzybum wrote: »

Am I the only softie both laughing AND crying at this thread?? Haven't even had any wine yet either...;)

I haven't had a drink yet either but if I do i'll stay away from this or i'll end up remembering all the things dad used to say, then i'll get depressed which will lead to me thinking it's a good idea to open another bottle of wine which i'll regret in the morning

I do hope i've not upset anyone though by making this thread

kara2868

Me and my mum speak every weekday at 6pm if I'm not going to be in I have to ring hr to let her know else she worries tha I've crashed my car lol

caroline78

My Mum and me must phone each other maybe twenty times a day, and we only live 3 minutes away from each other. Even when I go abroad I would phone maybe twice a day. My brother often jokes that I would phone to let her know when I am going to the toilet...lol

sazzybum

hoyles10 wrote: »

I haven't had a drink yet either but if I do i'll stay away from this or i'll end up remembering all the things dad used to say, then i'll get depressed which will lead to me thinking it's a good idea to open another bottle of wine which i'll regret in the morning

I do hope i've not upset anyone though by making this thread

Don't think that for a minute Hoyles! I know my Mother's gone, but it made me remember all the funny stuff she used to say to me, and how-at the time-it made me sooooo frustrated and irritated....stuff that I had forgotten with all the bustle of everyday life-hence the laughing and the crying...Thank you for making me take the time to remember it-if that makes sense. I've opened a bottle now, so in the morning if we start duplicate threads about hangovers..............;)

Valli

Years ago I bought a purse I really liked. My mum liked it, too, so she bought herself an identical one. Fine - but the number of times she's had been in MY house and seen MY purse and thought it was hers and try to put it in her bag...
(She has more money than me, you'd have thought I'd be trying to take hers;))
anyway, one day the window cleaners came, and I went to get my purse and I couldn't find it. Cue one VERY embarrassed Valli trying to explain to the window cleaners why I couldn't pay them....
Phoned mum. Yep - two purses in her bag.
Anyway thanks to the skanky bloke who helped himself to her purse a couple of years back, in Morrisons, we don't have identical purses anymore!
(And on praise,vent and warnings you'll see that after today, I'm lucky to still have mine...)

and for those of you who no longer have your mums around - I hope you can smile at happy memories... precious people, mums.

jackieb

Valli wrote: »

Years ago I bought a purse I really liked. My mum liked it, too, so she bought herself an identical one. Fine - but the number of times she's had been in MY house and seen MY purse and thought it was hers and try to put it in her bag...
(She has more money than me, you'd have thought I'd be trying to take hers;))
anyway, one day the window cleaners came, and I went to get my purse and I couldn't find it. Cue one VERY embarrassed Valli trying to explain to the window cleaners why I couldn't pay them....
Phoned mum. Yep - two purses in her bag.
Anyway thanks to the skanky bloke who helped himself to her purse a couple of years back, in Morrisons, we don't have identical purses anymore!
(And on praise,vent and warnings you'll see that after today, I'm lucky to still have mine...)

and for those of you who no longer have your mums around - I hope you can smile at happy memories... precious people, mums.

My mum and me were shopping together one day. We saw some nice purses. We were both needing a new one. We bought identical ones. It's supposed to be unlucky to buy your own purse so once we'd paid for them we put a 10p in it for luck, and swapped them over. I gave her the one i'd bought and vice versa. I think the assistant thought we were a bit mad.

emmell

I used to settle down to watch my favourite programme and the phone would ring, my mother, "there's nothing on the telly tonight" and I'd say I'm watching (whatever it was at the time) and my mother would say "Oh, I hate that programme I don't know why you watch it it's all a load of rubbish etc., etc.," and she would go on and on until the programme finished.
But if I rang her she would say, "can't talk I'm watching the Monkeys on Animal Planet".
I just wish she were here to ring me now, I wouldn't care what was on telly.
ML.

moggylover

Thanks for this thread, it is a case of laughing and crying at the same time, but as another poster said, it makes you remember all sorts of funny quirks that were annoying at the time but so dear to your heart when remembered from a distance.