Fortunately I didn't have to grow up with her-- she married my father when I was 32 (and she was 43, yikes). She then spent the next 30 years slowly destroying my relationship with my father (fragile to begin with) and when she'd managed to banish me, started in on my brother, who has a mental illness, and then blamed me for destroying their relationship with him.
There's just nothing in the world like the step-mother stories I've heard all my life from my friends and suffered from my own step-mother. I mean, who even says these things? (stepmothers!) Where do they come from? Why are they all alike? How'd they get so evil? Why did my father pretend not to hear the ghastly things she said to us? Man alive. Altho when Sarah Palin came on the scene from out of the blue!-- her head full of botox-- and jeered at Barack for having been a "neighborhood organizer" while she'd been a mayor!!! I had a kind of chill go over me. I thought it was like the arrival of my stepmother-- so full of verve and confidence but why would she be confident? And putting down someone we all love for some insane reason. It was so similar to my stepmother's insulting each of us in secret conferences to the other, and giving as reasons the very things that made them good.
I answered this already so I'm totally confused. I told you exactly how you'd be greeted in Heaven by a great big woman with a fruit basket on her head, a beautiful dress and a Victrola strapped to her back plus two brother Microphonies!!! Welcoming you to the Afterlife with bellows!!! It will be a bee-you-tifull thing. You know it will!
I've thought about getting a copy of the will just to see if she isn't actually lying, but at this point she's almost certainly gotten rid of all mom's stuff. I don't care about the money, if there even is any (most likely just his pension, which died with him).
And maybe you'll come around the corner and there he'll be with the fruitbasket on his head and the beautiful skirt and blouse, and the Victrola strapped to his back to greet you with the other Microphonies, why not? They say you see someone you're really glad to see.
I was just thinking about this now defunct thread, and our conversation. I was thinking, because Curly is now so much a part of my psyche since childhood, that when I'm on my death bed, staring into the abyss, I think my very last words as I shed this mortal coil will be, "Gnaa gnaa gnaa!"
Yep. Per Mencken's prediction, the "plain folks" Made America Glorious Again. Idiocracy wasn't just an amusing film that made us feel vaguely uneasy at the time; it was every bit as prophetic as we feared.
She should have behaved herself at the beginning. My father's will had a little section at the end saying: my three children were not mentioned in this will and that was deliberate.In fact I know she and her family were disappointed we didn't contest it.Families are disgusting-- know what I mean?
I hear ya. From Nixon to Reagan, then Dubya to Dumpf, the devolution of Republican presidents continues apace. At this rate, we can expect them to nominate an actual neanderthal to run in 2024. Or maybe a Cro-Magnon. Come to think of it, a Troglodyte would probably poll well with their base. Or perhaps a turnip? Nah, no turnip is petty and vindictive enough to win their nomination.
OH yeah. Bigly.
You know what I say? I say to Hell with your Dad too.
Fortunately I didn't have to grow up with her-- she married my father when I was 32 (and she was 43, yikes). She then spent the next 30 years slowly destroying my relationship with my father (fragile to begin with) and when she'd managed to banish me, started in on my brother, who has a mental illness, and then blamed me for destroying their relationship with him.
The best is getting away.
There's just nothing in the world like the step-mother stories I've heard all my life from my friends and suffered from my own step-mother. I mean, who even says these things? (stepmothers!) Where do they come from? Why are they all alike? How'd they get so evil? Why did my father pretend not to hear the ghastly things she said to us? Man alive. Altho when Sarah Palin came on the scene from out of the blue!-- her head full of botox-- and jeered at Barack for having been a "neighborhood organizer" while she'd been a mayor!!! I had a kind of chill go over me. I thought it was like the arrival of my stepmother-- so full of verve and confidence but why would she be confident? And putting down someone we all love for some insane reason. It was so similar to my stepmother's insulting each of us in secret conferences to the other, and giving as reasons the very things that made them good.
I answered this already so I'm totally confused. I told you exactly how you'd be greeted in Heaven by a great big woman with a fruit basket on her head, a beautiful dress and a Victrola strapped to her back plus two brother Microphonies!!! Welcoming you to the Afterlife with bellows!!! It will be a bee-you-tifull thing. You know it will!
I've thought about getting a copy of the will just to see if she isn't actually lying, but at this point she's almost certainly gotten rid of all mom's stuff. I don't care about the money, if there even is any (most likely just his pension, which died with him).
I admit, I was happier when it was satire...
And maybe you'll come around the corner and there he'll be with the fruitbasket on his head and the beautiful skirt and blouse, and the Victrola strapped to his back to greet you with the other Microphonies, why not? They say you see someone you're really glad to see.
I was just thinking about this now defunct thread, and our conversation. I was thinking, because Curly is now so much a part of my psyche since childhood, that when I'm on my death bed, staring into the abyss, I think my very last words as I shed this mortal coil will be, "Gnaa gnaa gnaa!"
And then they'll put a sheet over my head.
Peace... God bless....
Yep. Per Mencken's prediction, the "plain folks" Made America Glorious Again. Idiocracy wasn't just an amusing film that made us feel vaguely uneasy at the time; it was every bit as prophetic as we feared.
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Stephen watches Fox News so we don't have to. I appreciate that.
She should have behaved herself at the beginning. My father's will had a little section at the end saying: my three children were not mentioned in this will and that was deliberate.In fact I know she and her family were disappointed we didn't contest it.Families are disgusting-- know what I mean?
I hear ya. From Nixon to Reagan, then Dubya to Dumpf, the devolution of Republican presidents continues apace. At this rate, we can expect them to nominate an actual neanderthal to run in 2024. Or maybe a Cro-Magnon. Come to think of it, a Troglodyte would probably poll well with their base. Or perhaps a turnip? Nah, no turnip is petty and vindictive enough to win their nomination.