July 4, 2013

  • Unsupported

    My friends have told me time and again that my family (particularly my mom) is very unsupportive.
    I can agree at times this is true but the love (bond) we have is pretty strong. Today's episode really pissed me off.
    My moms pretty abrasive at times (I can be too and so could my grandpa I think it's in the genes) and if she isn't interested or disbelieved something can be pretty vocal in a pretty bad way.
    Daddy on the other hand is really easy going and enjoys social game play and living it up so to speak. He's fun loving likes stories and generally can get along with anyone. This year his mental facilities have been going down pretty rapidly and since my aunt has had Alzheimer's for yrs and it hereditary and she's got a very "nice" personality along with a huge sweet tooth (like daddy) I feel like he's getting early onset. So when I find a cute story in my genealogy research ill sometimes share with him. Depending on the story.

    (WOW that was a really long intro)

    So I found a guy that was the mayor of London around middle 1500s which was cool bc he saved a girl from drowning to go on later to marry her. It was a medieval love story published in a few romantic passages in books. SUPOSIDLY.

    So when I'm trying to tell him my mom starts scoffing nay saying in the background so I finally shut up and leave without finishing the story.
    Bc she doesn't believe it no one should hear it.
    I come back after she left and finished telling it only to have her bust in and accuse me of drinking/moving her glass (which I told her earlier was in a weird place where SHE left it).

    Thank God I didn't tell her about the pirate (almost cannibal) that got left in the Philippines and ran away with a Malayan princess and settled in Bayse Samar. No telling what she would have said then.
    I like the stories they are interesting. It's what makes it worth doing. But not being able to share the stories suck.
    I just needed to let it out.

Comments (4)

  • Thanks for telling that story, it was sort of hard to believe. At times I do want to make up certain stories. My friend told me about how the butcher got shot at a chinese market and I sort of added my father into this story.

    Once my father was a butcher at this market. The owner of the place had gotten a batch of opium to sell and he sold it and told the seller that the police came near and he got scared and threw that batch away.
    By the second and third time of trying to cheat the opium dealer, the dealer had enough and carried a gun to get his payment. The owner was not at the store and so the dealer shot the butcher and went outside to reload his gun. The pool hall next door people saw him reloading and decided to hit the drug dealer with a cue stick while he was reloading.
    However my mother before this shooting told my father to become a plumber and drop the butchering job. Hence my father's life was spared because my mother's advice saved his life.

  • @PPhilip - that's a great story in itself. Unfortunately the poor butcher got shot (thankfully not your father) and really your mom did in a way save his life. :)

  • It is interesting that you should use this incident to back up the claim your mom is unsupportive.

  • @RulerofMasons - she isn't

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