Last night left me completely emotionally exhausted. Do you know how hard it is to keep your mouth shut when you disagree so vehemently with the conversation going on around you but you know that saying something will just make it worse?
Back to that in a minute.
Dinner went basically exactly as I anticipated. Michael's mom thanked him very sincerely for the card both of us wrote in.
She shared a look (you know the kind) with her friend across the table when Michael's grandmother made a reference to our first Christmas tree.
She snapped at me for my choice of outerwear:
Me: Brrr, it got cold out!
Her: Well, Molly. Maybe if you were wearing a proper jacket, you wouldn't be so cold. I mean, really. It's not that cold out.
Me: I came directly from work. This jacket was just fine this afternoon.
Her: Well, it's not really worth complaining about, is it?
Right. Silly me. What was I thinking--rushing home from work to attend your birthday because 6 o'clock (rather than 6:30) is really better for you--and not bringing a suitable jacket for the drop in temperature that was bound to happen in the two hours we were in the restaurant??
Oh, the conversation that left me wanting to just die?
The nicest way to put it is that it was very, very, very close minded and bigoted. And I had already used my bathroom break escape to avoid an earlier conversation so I couldn't leave the table again without looking like I had a serious bladder problem.
I love Michael. I really, really, really, really do.
And now I completely understand why he doesn't like to go to his mother's for dinner.
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3 comments:
maybe if you wore your i luv jesus t-shirt it would have gone over better. maybe a tip to remember for next time.
just continue to keep it unpleasant because later on in life when she gets old and senile, you don't want her to come and live w/ you guys :)
She sounds like a complete nightmare. I didn't know people like her existed outside of television and the movies. I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. Luckily he seems like he's totally worth it.
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