I wonder if I'm going to be a chatty old, stopping moms in the bread aisle to talk about all my kids and how they all slept through the night since day 1.
Other annoying things old people do with cell phones: turn them off when they aren't making a call. Hey, MIL, your cell phone is completely useless to everyone except you when you keep it off 23.5 hours a day!
My mom does this and it's so obnoxious. Why have a phone if you're not going to have it on?!!! Wait. H does this too and he's only 37.
My mother did this, too, she said the phone is for her to use when and how she wants to, not for others to contact her, she doesn't want to be bothered.
She was so indignant about it, she cancelled the damned thing entirely. If there's one person in the world who should have a cell phone so she can be contacted, it's my mother.
My mom texts and facebooks as if it is an e-mail. For example "Honey, What time is your marathon on Sunday? Love, Mom". I will reply "7" and she will reply "OK, Honey, I will be there at 6 so I can see you before. Love, Mom". "Do you need me to bring anything? Love, Mom" FFS, I know who it is!!!
You know how in the 70s everyone had a slide projector and they'd invite people over to look at their vacation pics? Well, the 2000s version of that is, "Let me show you 500 pictures I took of basically the same thing, all on my iPhone". I will also hover over you closely and explain each one and periodically snatch the phone from your hands so I can enlarge a picture or swipe back to add something I forgot to say"
I bet in the 70s there was booze at the slide show parties.
Nailed It. I've tried to work out how to edge away from the iPhone slideshow. "Oh oh! Just one more!! You have to see Junior on the horse! OH & look at this chipmunk family we found!!" I can see a professional picture of a chipmunk family on the Internet anytime I want. Which is why I've never looked, because I'm Not Interested!
Post by pantsparty on Aug 28, 2015 15:33:56 GMT -5
My mom talks to me on speaker because "cancer" and she also tells me I shouldn't talk on a Bluetooth because "cancer." More than once she hasn't told me someone else is in the room when she's talking to me. Not that I talk shit about others on a regular basis, but COMMON COURTESY, MOM.
Omg my parents make well over double our income and are upper middle class. They are very generous with their money BUT my mom is apparently stuck in 1985 when it comes to restaurant prices. She will loudly complain and then leave a shitty tip if she thinks a place is too expensive ie over 10 for lunch or 15 for dinner. It's so embarrassing.
Speaking of shared cells, my parents each have their own but my dad has it set up so the texts go to his phone and my moms (how this is possible I do not know).
So, I will send my DAD a text, "Where's Mom, she is not picking up her phone" and I will receive a text back from his number, "I'm at the office". Which is great DAD but where is MOM? "This is Mom". THEN ANSWER YOUR PHONE
It's so freaking annoying.
My boss and his wife have this setup (they are both VPs in our company) and they're in their 40s. It's so weird because he NEVER told me this and I kept texting him and he wouldn't respond. I was super pissed and asked his wife's admin about and she said I have to specifically reference who I am sending it to or they won't respond. Queue the WTFs? and eye rolling.
Speaking of shared cells, my parents each have their own but my dad has it set up so the texts go to his phone and my moms (how this is possible I do not know).
So, I will send my DAD a text, "Where's Mom, she is not picking up her phone" and I will receive a text back from his number, "I'm at the office". Which is great DAD but where is MOM? "This is Mom". THEN ANSWER YOUR PHONE
It's so freaking annoying.
My boss and his wife have this setup (they are both VPs in our company) and they're in their 40s. It's so weird because he NEVER told me this and I kept texting him and he wouldn't respond. I was super pissed and asked his wife's admin about and she said I have to specifically reference who I am sending it to or they won't respond. Queue the WTFs? and eye rolling.
Trust issues, much? I think this same thing about shared FB accounts. Yeah, yeah, we get- you're SO open with each other
Turning their phones to silent then calling me multiple times because she can't hear her phone ring.
Being asked if I remember the neighbor who used to live down the road, two houses down from the tree that was hit by lighting in 1968, but the neighbor moved before I was even born.
Write checks at the grocery store. Or Target. Or any place in general.
My mom has never had a debit card. She runs to the store to right a check for over the amount for cash every single time. Luckily she is always in need of a cold bottle of Chardonnay.
You know how in the 70s everyone had a slide projector and they'd invite people over to look at their vacation pics? Well, the 2000s version of that is, "Let me show you 500 pictures I took of basically the same thing, all on my iPhone". I will also hover over you closely and explain each one and periodically snatch the phone from your hands so I can enlarge a picture or swipe back to add something I forgot to say"
I bet in the 70s there was booze at the slide show parties.
My DH does this and it kills me. He LOVES taking scenery pictures (I have to remind him that I want pictures of people...) on vacation. They are NEVER as nice as the actual location but he will take 50 pictures of one sunset and then make someone flip through with him... It's excruciating and he refuses to listen to me.
Post by lissaholly on Aug 28, 2015 16:36:25 GMT -5
I have an aunt who takes fuzzy pictures of my kid on her cell phone and then tags me on FB. I am positive now that she doesn't know they are fuzzy.
My MIL signs every text, but in abbreviated form like LOL, L(ove)M(om)K(first initial of last name). I thought I needed to let her know something forever!
Mom: Did I tell you about Lisa divorcing her husband because he cheated on her with her sister? Me: Yes mom. You told me all about it last week. Mom: Oh ok. Yeah well Lisa found out that her husband was cheating on her with her sister. [goes on and on for 10 minutes telling me every single pointless detail of the same exact story she told me last week when it could have just been summarized by the summary she gave me at the beginning] Me: Yeah that sucks. I gotta go now. Mom: Oh yeah me too. I just have so much that I need to do. Me: Ok b--- Mom: I need to do [goes on for 10 minutes about what she needs to do]
Hey, I'm impressed that many of you have parents or older relatives who CAN text. LOL! I'd fall over dead if I ever received a text from either of my parents.
Oh, and I always get stuck behind those check writing people at the store. grr
Post by birdistheword on Aug 28, 2015 17:35:11 GMT -5
My mom inserts entirely unnecessary details into every story she tells, making them 100 times longer than they need to be. And she gets hung up on these details that don't even matter.
Example: "So I went to the pharmacy last night at 6. No wait, it was 7. Well, no, I think it was closer to 6:28. Wait...no it was 6."
MOM! I do not care EXACTLY what time you were at the pharmacy. Just get on with the story.
I wonder if I'm going to be a chatty old, stopping moms in the bread aisle to talk about all my kids and how they all slept through the night since day 1.
Probably.
I 100% know I will be like this. I am too much of a know it all to not be like this when I am older.
Post by laceylaplante on Aug 28, 2015 17:43:55 GMT -5
Love my grandma, but every time she visits, she brings boxes and bags of junk. Random things she gets at garage sales or she cleaned out an area of her house and flat out tells me that it's junk she doesn't want and I can throw it out if I don't want it. It might make me sound like an ungrateful bitch, but our house is small and I hate clutter!