Pointless Conversations

[dissention]

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.

[reebokandlace]

Originally Posted by dissention

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. 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).

[GypsySorcerer]

I think all mothers are like that.

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

[Jyqm]

Originally Posted by reebokandlace

I often wonder if our elderly are over medicated.

It ain't just the old folks.

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by reebokandlace

I often wonder if our elderly are over medicated.

I don't think they are medicated enough.

[ragandbone]

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.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by reebokandlace

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).

My ma is only 46.

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.

Originally Posted by amber

That's weird she just hung up.

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

Originally Posted by amber

Oh, and no, I don't get those. I get guilt trip ones, though.

I get those, too. Mostly from friends.

[jannieC]

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

[UnwindedDreams]

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



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

[Red]

[QUOTE=amber]
My mom is crazy too, but astonishingly astute, and not at all vague, in fact the opposite. It's gross. She's really negative, though, which pisses me off. She'll call me and be like "well, I wish you had finished school earlier, now that you are thirty you probably won't be able to get a job" And she'll be like "Well, did you pay such and such? You suck with money, I think you have a problem and should get therapy!"

Yes, it's magical.

and then she tells me about bunches of stuff that is dangerous - like the place I live, and how she never wants to drive across that bridge again, and earthquakes, and blah. She majored in environmental science, so she knows more dangerous things than most people.
Oh, and I love when she tells me things about my Dad that I would never, ever, ever, want to know.

And then there's the times (usually) where I'll be like "oh, then I did this and this, and my friend blah, and whatever!" and she'll be like "OH! I did that and that and that, too, and my friend blah!" and then follow with some advise.
That's why I rarely talk to them on the phone.
Like, I WISH my mom said something vague and then randomly hung up!
On the upside, she's very smart, so it can be fun, but whatevs.[/
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Can I just interject here and tell you Amber, that regardless of what you're going to school for, you HAVE to be a writer. Be a columnist or something, because I damn near pissed myself reading this post - tears streaaaaming down my face. So there- you have a brand new career!!

Oh and Diss, I think you're Mom was talking about the Smart Car. I had a similar convo with my Mom and she could't think of the name as it really doesn't have a "car" name, like something named after a carniverous animal or a planet.

[ragandbone]

Originally Posted by amber

My mom is crazy too, but astonishingly astute, and not at all vague, in fact the opposite. It's gross. She's really negative, though, which pisses me off. She'll call me and be like "well, I wish you had finished school earlier, now that you are thirty you probably won't be able to get a job"
Yes, it's magical.

and then she tells me about bunches of stuff that is dangerous - like the place I live, and how she never wants to drive across that bridge again, and earthquakes, and blah.

It is magical.
My mother combines the vague and the negative, or rather she embeds the negative in the vague. I will tell her something her grandson did at the park, and she will say
"Oooh, I worry about Leo" (my son) but she won't give me the details of the worry when pressed, or how they relate to the park anecdote. Them, moments later, she might drop in an awful story from the news about a freak accident, complete with grisly details.

I got the ..."wish you had finished school earlier" for years. It's a little maddening, because, of course, you can't fix that one, even with a degree. The one negative thing my mother does that I have caught myself doing with my son, (and which I must stop doing) is that she broadcasts her concerns over my shortcomings. When I did poorly in Algebra, even while sailing through honors science and English courses, she told just about everyone she knew. Of course, my 2 year old is not in Algebra, but I have caught myself telling my friends that I am concerned about him getting pushed, or that he is short for his age, and I have done this while he is in the room. Noooo!