my crazy mum
I'm quite tired of this.
My mum seems to have gotten a new house rule stuck in her head: "Don't leave empty dishes/ food containers on the kitchen table after eating - put them directly in the sink or thrash them." This rule apparently applies only to me? Not to my parents anyway.
Well, excuse me if what used to be drilled into me by my Papa was "take the empty dishes to the kitchen and leave them on the kitchen table after eating" for the past years of my life.
I was working from home on Friday. And she screamed for the whole morning because I left something from breakfast on the kitchen table. Said now she had to change the newspapers (she always spreads newspapers on the kitchen table) and threatens to pour the contents of dishes onto my computer if I do it again. At least she didn't threaten to kill me. I closed my door and she stood outside my door yelling stuff in dialect that I couldn't fully understand. Some words like "siu ji" and "siu na na", which I think might mean "crazy something", cause that's what she scolds a character in one of her TV dramas who is mentally unstable. (I hope I'm not unknowingly listing some crude vulgarity. ^^; I know from asking meanings before that some words my mum uses can be pretty bad. XD) At least rant at me in something I understand? Lol. It's not very effective otherwise? I got irritated though, because with her volume, I couldn't concentrate on work. And then when my father got home, she told him about what I did, he tried to speak in my defense, and the screaming started all over again. Gosh.
The introduction of this rule is as sudden as the "My father doesn't get to sleep before I go shower and she watches him wipe whatever chair I had been sitting in with a wet cloth" rule - no matter what time of the night it is. If he tries to sleep, she makes him wake up to wipe my chair. D: (And if she falls asleep, she makes him wake her up to watch him wipe my chair before they sleep.) Another reason I want my father to retire and sleep in more. Sigh.
I think it may be a result of her OCD (I am dirty => the chairs I sit on are dirty + the dishes I eat from are dirty; I know the chair rule applies to my friends who visit too, so I'M NOT ALONE IN BEING DIRTY, no idea about the dishes rule yet though, COME, COME TO MY HOUSE AND LET'S TEST IT OUT) + having too much free time that she spends mostly sleeping and watching TV + simply cooping herself up at home and adamantly refusing to leave the house except on Sundays. (Did I mention? I celebrated my birthday with my dad and aunts without my mum 2 (?) years ago, even though I kept asking with please-please-please'es for her to come with us till right before we left the house. Because it wasn't a Sunday. She joined last year, because it was a Sunday. I suppose I won't be expecting her this year.) It's like house arrest, almost like being bedridden, except yeah, it did get through to her that she needs to get out of bed, so she walks around the house for exercise during the day.
Well, I guess this situation probably won't change. I've pretty much given up on bothering to change my mum already. I'll try to remember if I can. My father tolerates her so well. He's amazing.
My mum seems to have gotten a new house rule stuck in her head: "Don't leave empty dishes/ food containers on the kitchen table after eating - put them directly in the sink or thrash them." This rule apparently applies only to me? Not to my parents anyway.
Well, excuse me if what used to be drilled into me by my Papa was "take the empty dishes to the kitchen and leave them on the kitchen table after eating" for the past years of my life.
I was working from home on Friday. And she screamed for the whole morning because I left something from breakfast on the kitchen table. Said now she had to change the newspapers (she always spreads newspapers on the kitchen table) and threatens to pour the contents of dishes onto my computer if I do it again. At least she didn't threaten to kill me. I closed my door and she stood outside my door yelling stuff in dialect that I couldn't fully understand. Some words like "siu ji" and "siu na na", which I think might mean "crazy something", cause that's what she scolds a character in one of her TV dramas who is mentally unstable. (I hope I'm not unknowingly listing some crude vulgarity. ^^; I know from asking meanings before that some words my mum uses can be pretty bad. XD) At least rant at me in something I understand? Lol. It's not very effective otherwise? I got irritated though, because with her volume, I couldn't concentrate on work. And then when my father got home, she told him about what I did, he tried to speak in my defense, and the screaming started all over again. Gosh.
The introduction of this rule is as sudden as the "My father doesn't get to sleep before I go shower and she watches him wipe whatever chair I had been sitting in with a wet cloth" rule - no matter what time of the night it is. If he tries to sleep, she makes him wake up to wipe my chair. D: (And if she falls asleep, she makes him wake her up to watch him wipe my chair before they sleep.) Another reason I want my father to retire and sleep in more. Sigh.
I think it may be a result of her OCD (I am dirty => the chairs I sit on are dirty + the dishes I eat from are dirty; I know the chair rule applies to my friends who visit too, so I'M NOT ALONE IN BEING DIRTY, no idea about the dishes rule yet though, COME, COME TO MY HOUSE AND LET'S TEST IT OUT) + having too much free time that she spends mostly sleeping and watching TV + simply cooping herself up at home and adamantly refusing to leave the house except on Sundays. (Did I mention? I celebrated my birthday with my dad and aunts without my mum 2 (?) years ago, even though I kept asking with please-please-please'es for her to come with us till right before we left the house. Because it wasn't a Sunday. She joined last year, because it was a Sunday. I suppose I won't be expecting her this year.) It's like house arrest, almost like being bedridden, except yeah, it did get through to her that she needs to get out of bed, so she walks around the house for exercise during the day.
Well, I guess this situation probably won't change. I've pretty much given up on bothering to change my mum already. I'll try to remember if I can. My father tolerates her so well. He's amazing.