Wednesday, March 30, 2005
M is for the many ways you nag me ...
There is one sentence that, no matter how it is said or what the intention behind it is, will instantly make me see red. "You are just like your mother."
Don't get me wrong... I love my mom but she definitely takes nagging to a new level. No matter what you do she knows a better way to do it and she's angry that you didn't think of it to begin with. However, if it's something she has to do she's completely helpless and you have to do it for her. Especially if it involves a computer. Last week, for instance, I had to order something off of Amazon for her and today I had to bid on something on Ebay. The thing is she owns, like, four computers. She was a computer operator for an electronics supplier. She may not be hip to all the ins and outs of Windows but she's not helpless around a computer. I hate to use the word lazy to describe my mother so I'll just say she has got the whole delegation-thing down pat.
The thing that pisses me off the most about my mother is that I can see myself becoming her. I definitely like things a certain way and I am the first to tell somebody my opinion. The thing that differientiates me from my mother is that I realize I'm doing it and I really want to stop. I wonder if there's a 12-step program for nagging?
Don't get me wrong... I love my mom but she definitely takes nagging to a new level. No matter what you do she knows a better way to do it and she's angry that you didn't think of it to begin with. However, if it's something she has to do she's completely helpless and you have to do it for her. Especially if it involves a computer. Last week, for instance, I had to order something off of Amazon for her and today I had to bid on something on Ebay. The thing is she owns, like, four computers. She was a computer operator for an electronics supplier. She may not be hip to all the ins and outs of Windows but she's not helpless around a computer. I hate to use the word lazy to describe my mother so I'll just say she has got the whole delegation-thing down pat.
The thing that pisses me off the most about my mother is that I can see myself becoming her. I definitely like things a certain way and I am the first to tell somebody my opinion. The thing that differientiates me from my mother is that I realize I'm doing it and I really want to stop. I wonder if there's a 12-step program for nagging?
