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Excellent, my dad's sister has been telling my dad what his mother in law has been saying to me. I initially thought this was a very stupid idea because what would my dad care about it? I mean, she's like that to everyone. Interestingly, he asked her what to do about it and according to my aunt he's extremely pissed off with her (my grandma). So my dad does have feelings. Who knew?
She told him to talk to me. This should be amusing -he'll ask me what I think about it. And since I've inherited his inability to talk about feelings etc, I'm not sure I'm going to give a very good answer. Both my dad and uncle can't stand my grandma but my uncle takes it because there's not much you CAN do but my dad is not tactful. There are a pile of photos in my photobox from when I was a lot younger that my mum gave to me because it's my gran taking the family picture and my dad is posing stupidly.
Apparently the thing that pissed my dad off the most from what his sister told him was that my grandma had told me that I had clearly taken after him and he's not good enough for her daughter. I then asked her (through gritted teeth) if that meant if I wasn't good enough for her family. And she hesitated saying "there are moments when we question it." So I pointed out the general agreement was I took after her and my aunt with the Polish blood running thick through us while my mum and cousin took after my grandad, being typically reserved British. And she told me to shut up saying there is no way I take after her. Again, I pointed out the agreement that my dad and her are much more believable as mother and son than her and my mum as mother and daughter. She hung up on me.
What I find amusing is she can be a cow but if you manage to get in there, you can knock her off her pedastool. What should be interesting is how I react to a mother in law of mine who acts like her...
She told him to talk to me. This should be amusing -he'll ask me what I think about it. And since I've inherited his inability to talk about feelings etc, I'm not sure I'm going to give a very good answer. Both my dad and uncle can't stand my grandma but my uncle takes it because there's not much you CAN do but my dad is not tactful. There are a pile of photos in my photobox from when I was a lot younger that my mum gave to me because it's my gran taking the family picture and my dad is posing stupidly.
Apparently the thing that pissed my dad off the most from what his sister told him was that my grandma had told me that I had clearly taken after him and he's not good enough for her daughter. I then asked her (through gritted teeth) if that meant if I wasn't good enough for her family. And she hesitated saying "there are moments when we question it." So I pointed out the general agreement was I took after her and my aunt with the Polish blood running thick through us while my mum and cousin took after my grandad, being typically reserved British. And she told me to shut up saying there is no way I take after her. Again, I pointed out the agreement that my dad and her are much more believable as mother and son than her and my mum as mother and daughter. She hung up on me.
What I find amusing is she can be a cow but if you manage to get in there, you can knock her off her pedastool. What should be interesting is how I react to a mother in law of mine who acts like her...