parents getting on my nerves, anyone else?

Jamiecakes
Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:11:46 +0000

Kids, be patient. Just like we were when you were little, and we were trying to get dinner on the table, feed the barking dog, change the baby’s diaper and answer the phone:

Child: I have new shoes!
Mom: Really? Wow! (thinking, I know that, I bought them)
Child: They are red shoes!
Mom: Red shoes are great! That’s your favorite color! (oops the dog is puking, quick out the door!)
Child: My shoes are red, see my new shoes? (Of COURSE I see them, because you are standing on my toes)
Mom: I TOTALLY love your new shoes, honey. Red is perfect. I can see you really like them. (red, totally ridiculous. Should’ve made her get black, but I love her so I got the totally silly red shoes! LOL!)
Child: Watch me walk in my new shoes.
Mom: Good walking, sweetie (OMG, shoot me now)
Child: See, my shoes make a tapping sound. Tap, tap, tap
Mom: Tip, tap, tap go the shiny red shoes! (Crap, what’s burning?)

Mother realizes she went college and then grad school and yet she is reduced to a looooong conversation about shiny new red shoes for the FOURTH TIME THAT DAY.

We had those conversations with you…cut us some slack, guys.