Pointless Conversations
 

I went out to eat earlier this evening and when I got home, I got a call from my mother. As soon as I answer the phone, she barks out "Have you seen those new cars?"

"What new cars?"
"The new cars that they came out with," she tells me.
"But what kind?" I ask. "Honda, Toyota, Subaru?"
"Yes."
"Yes what?"
"Those cars!"
"But which ones? Those are all from different companies," I tell her.
"THE ONES YOU SAID."
"So you're talking about the new cars from all different of companies?"
"Oh, forget it." And she hangs up on me.

Does anyone else get telephone calls as inane as the one I recently received? Do they irk you as much as they irk me? Do you ponder changing your number afterwards and not giving it to anyone so that they can't bother you? Crikey.

LOL... I can relate.

I often wonder if our elderly are over medicated. :shrug: You know some of that arthritis medications can have them in a stoned stupor by 2 pm. Seriously.

Ok, but maybe I can help translate her...I think she was talking about hybrids....after many years of trying to translate inane conversations with my own relations.....that is what I think she was trying to say....scary that I can interpret the overmedicated ramblings of an old person (maybe your mom isn't old, maybe she isn't overmedicated, but the conversation sounded familar).

I think all mothers are like that. :laugh:

I have a couple of friends who only call when they're driving from place to place. "Well, I'm here...gotta go!" :mad: :laugh:

My mom and I have those conversatons, but more often, it goes like this:


Late Night Non Sequiturs With Mom

ME: Aww, I never finished the hem on that curtain.
MOM: Do you want me to iron this shirt?
ME: Hey Mom, do you ever look at me and remember me small? Like, sometimes when I look at the boy, I look at his feet, and I think how weird it will be when he is a tall adult, to remember those little feet.
MOM: My brother went to school with a boy from a farm family, near us, who was so smart, brilliant really, and he went on...
ME: Who? Mom, what are you talking about?
MOM: What did you ask me?
ME: I wondered if you ever think of what I was like as a toddler, and find it strange that I am grown.
MOM: Sure, you are still the teeny Elizabeth - I will always think of you that way too.

My ma is only 46. :laugh:

She could be talking about hybrids, but it was so damned vague and inane that I was surprised she even told me that it was CARS that she was talking about.

You don't know my mother. :laugh: She's crazy as bat****. In a good way, but crazy nonetheless.

I get those, too. Mostly from friends. :laugh:

My mom lives with us, so I get these conversations live and in technicolor on an almost daily basis. :shocked:

be patient with your mother maybe she just wanted a reason to call you.:)

don't say that! if that was my mother she would beat my sorry behind...and she's 62!:nod:



You don't know my mother. :laugh: She's crazy as bat****. In a good way, but crazy nonetheless.

lol, I can relate to that. I have a friend who calls all the time when she's bored, and yet 85% of the time we end up either talking about pointless stuff (i.e. she seems to get a kick of out me saying the word 'biscuit' for some reason, and asks me to do so 3 times in a row) or else sometimes, it's just 10 minutes of solid silence. It gets quite annoying after a while, really.

Pointless conversations are always funny and instructing for me, also because I tend to indulge in them too. People sometimes are more honest and open with the others in their surreal moment, when they struggle to get out of their own world to communicate.

Romy

On a video phone you would be just staring at each other. ;)

I know of at least one character who does that here.

Diss, my roommate is young and I have that conversation all the time.

Roommate: Ummm...
Me: [waiting]
Roommate: Did you hear about that guy?
Me: No, what guy?
Roommate: Something happened to him.
Me: What happened to who?
Roommate: You know, that guy from, umm...
Me: [???]
Roommate: [silence]

:lol: She sometimes just trails off like that and never finishes. It drives me batty!!

Diss, my Mom is a complete nut but she's adorable. :laugh: Her thing is to tell me a story for the 17th time. Oh yeah, and her boyfriend doesn't like onions, so whenever she goes out she orders something with onions. Then she rolls her eyes and says, "I have to get onions when I'm out. Rick don't like onions." So now the big joke is, I always say to her, "Rick don't like onions." :lol: She's got a good sense of humor about her. She invented CRS (Can't Remember Sh*t). Despite the poor grammar she's a bright lady! She's got the math smarts though, not so much with the language.

This is Hilarious!!!

Im showin this to my friend, he will love it.

Consider yourself lucky, Diss. My mother never calls me. :(

It ain't just the old folks.