I don’t know what it is (Okay, I do know what it is … a particularly vicious time for the cocktail that passes for my hormones) but recently I’ve been finding everything my mother does insufferably annoying.
Every conversation I end up wanting to punch her. She talks in baby talk for no reason. Why? She talks through my favorite programs and then goes crazy when I do the same. She doesn’t tell us that there are things she’s bought for herself to eat, then goes nuts whenever me or my dad eats it, blaming us for not figuring it out. In company, she laughs ridiculously over the top, bending forward at the waist and clasping her hands at her own jokes and stories, that really aren’t funny. We’re all smiling weakly at best whilst she’s going through hysterics. She bitches constantly in public, making her look mean. She constantly says things like “So there you go then…” and when telling stories, she prefixes any sentance she’s relating with “Oh”. As in “So he said ‘Oh, well if you want then I’ll come Thursday’ and Maureen replied ‘Oh, well that’s okay then’”. She always says “It was quite funny” … when it’s not funny at all. So many little things that are so goddamn irritating.
She’s my mum, and I love her. But GOD she winds me up.
