Why do all these people I don't know ask how I'm feeling?
I think a couple weeks ago I might have told mom in passing that I had a cold and you were fighting it.
So why are they talking to me about it?
I think we need a flashback to my childhood.
1989
I heard from your second cousin who heard from your first cousin who heard from your aunt who heard from your grandmother who heard from your mother that you have swimmer's ear. Get better.
Nice to see a close-knit family. In my family it's almost like the telephone game. In this scenario, when it got back to boorite, it would be that he tried to commit suicide Romeo & Juliet style after seeing you taking a nap.
posted Jan 20th, 2007 ( permalink )
It does that too. Usually I buy a new pair of shoes and it ends up that I'm on the lamb from the cops for knocking over Younkers or something. This was pretty tame. It went from a passing comment that boorite was fighting my cold (which he didn't get) and ended up that he was either still sick with the flu or he got food poisoning on the road.
posted Jan 20th, 2007 ( permalink )
And it's not so much "close-knit" as it is "everyone tells everyone else stuff about someone else that's none of anyone's business in the first place." I know lots of embarassing and useless things about people I've never met before because mom insisted I needed to know about it.
posted Jan 20th, 2007 ( permalink )
Your Mom sounds like my mother-in-law. Does she also do the thing where if you tell her you almost died from pneumonia, then she had walking double pneumonia and didn't even know she was sick until they took her to the ER?
posted Jan 20th, 2007 ( permalink )
Yes, she always had it worse (according to her). Then she tells me my experiences mean nothing because she's older and wiser and I could never possibly know how bad it could be and ten years later I go "aha! I had those experiences!" and she responds with the experiences SHE had in the last ten years that trump mine. It never ends.
posted Jan 21st, 2007 ( permalink )
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