Witchy Woman

Mar 25, 2006 15:03

It's always been quite apparent to me how obssessed my mom can be about being right all of the time. Like, ALL the time - I've never seen her admit "ok, i was wrong, my bad. I'm sorry" even when she's wrong, ususally because in the case she IS wrong, i never have the energy or time to duke it out and argue. She usually wins her arguments by tiring me out to the point where i just stop caring and start agreeing because I have work or guitar or piano or something else I'd rather be doing. I think she knows this too - it's like a switch is flipped on me and all of a sudden my argumentativeness (word?) is just shut off and i start nodding and agreeing with everything. She doesn't seem to mind though - I guess she likes being agreed with.

Today, I casually told her "oh mom, by the way, the metrocard you told me had a ride on it was actually empty." She started "no, Chris, it was not empty, there were at least TWO rides on it, i saw it myself-"

"no mom, you're wrong. it was empty"

Then the yelling started - blah blah blah at a high volume. She even said "DIDNT IT EVEN OCCUR TO YOU THAT THE MACHINE COULD HAVE MADE A MISTAKE?!?" I kind of laughed at this, and since we were going down to the train station to have lunch with my cousin today, i would have a chance to show her. I stopped at one of those metrocard checkerizers and stood there swiping for 4 minutes, again and again and again. "Hmmm," i thought outloud, "I thought you said this one had money still on it...this machine must be busted too" and handed her the card. She was pretty pissed the rest of the way there, complaining to my dad about how i was being arrogant and that had it not occured to me that she might have taken another ride that day and forgot about it. Never once did she tell me that she was wrong.

This kind of stuff bothers me.
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