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Flame me too, I'm selfish
Ugh, so it's a good thing that I lost my job because yesterday my mom had a fall in a parking garage and needed me. She ended up with a chipped tooth, scraped up knee and cheek and a bruised arm.
Thankfully I was out of work and able to help her and take her to the dentist yesterday and dress her, bathe her, ice her, bandage her, etc. Today I chauffeured her around to the dealership for car issues, mall for makeup, lunch, grocery store, etc.
I have no problem helping her, but she's the kind of person who needs to tell EVERYONE what happened to her. I'm about to scream because I no longer have patience. The freaking guy at the gas station does not need to know that you chipped your farking tooth, woman!!!! Our errands are taking 5x as long because she needs to give everyone her life story and I just need some "me" time.
I'm debating getting a drink before volunteering tonight with a friend. I can't go from helpless mother to helpless children without some downtime and booze. Flame me, I'm an assshole.
ETA: I'm posting and running because I need to drive her to get her lip waxed. At least she can pull her pants up after she pees now. Seriously, I'm a jerk. Flame away.
Re: Flame me too, I'm selfish
I wont flame you for being a jerk, but I will flame you for making me literally laughout loud....now my co-worker is asking what is so funny and I really dont know quite how to explain that. Seriously this post is so gawddamn funny for a variety of reasons.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
I don't think you're being selfish at all.
Andplusalso - WHAT THE WHAT??!?!?!?
The things I miss when I go offline for most of a day...
I'm torn between wanting to give you an "awww...I'm sorry" and a "hells yeah!". I think I'll settle on the latter and offer to buy you a celebratory drink when we finally get around to having a gtg.
"You don't get to be all puke-face about your kid shooting your undead baby daddy when all you had to do was KEEP HIM IN THE FLUCKING HOUSE, LORI!" - doctorwho
"I'm so selfish, I feel frazzled between helping my mother do a gazillion errands and then going to volunteer"
SELFISH FAIL!!
Im defintely not flaming either because this is one of my MAJOR pet peeves. Probably because I have a friend who acts like shes dying when she has a cold and tells people she is deathly ill every 2 minutes. AHHHHHHHHH! Suck it up.
PS I broke my tailbone in December and didnt tell anyone until they noticed I could barely walk and sat on a donut all day.
Just a quick update Mint....I am still rolling "ova heya" (the best John Travolta impersonation I can do)
She really told the guy at the gas station about her fall? Bahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahaha this. I give you mad props for helping her out for so long without yelling at her. I would have broken down and said "MOM SERIOUSLY STFU!!!!"
This is my mom! She talks to everyone! I fear being on a plane and sitting next to someone like her sometimes. I love her to death but seriously, people don't care. The worst part is the lack of self awareness. It's embarrassing sometimes. Ugh, I feel like a bad daughter for saying this.