Post by simplyinpenguin on May 17, 2013 16:13:18 GMT -5
My dad is the worst at time. For church at noon, my mom will be up at 9:30 so she can have a leisure morning. She has to start waking my dad up at 10:30 so that he can be up at 11:30. But he has to shower and then deliberate which suit he wants to wear. Meanwhile my mom is downstairs fuming and pacing. Then he's all irritated and surprised that there's no parking at 12:05, "these aren't real Catholics!"
What my h and I think is a social visit on a Saturday afternoon turns into chores, gardening and running errands "with" them. We stopped dropping by in the afternoons, it was getting so bad. My dad never goes anywhere. He seriously turns down business trips to Italy because he whines that he wants to stay home. If my mom takes the day off from work, my dad will "suddenly" come down with a cold and call in himself, then hassle my sick mother that he wants to clean the house and run to this hardware store and the grocery store. Then he gets huffy when she says no and doesn't do anything himself but sleep. I secretly think my mom can't wait to put him in a home.
My 78 year old mother is OB. SESSED. with making sure she always knows the fastest rout to get somewhere. She keeps a freaking notebook in her car and tracks the mileage vs time of different routes to get to places she goes regularly. When she tries a new one she has to have 30 minute conversation about it with me with all the intimate details of her drive and compare it to every other route to determine which one is truly the best route.
And to those who have already said their parents take forever to eat, I'll take that bet and put them up against my mother any time. Part of the problem is she never stops talking, even at the dinner table, but when she does bother to put a bite in her mouth she has to chew it at least 500 times... probably because Dr. Oz said she should. There's yet another tangent I could go off on, right there.