Oh goodness, RedRose! I don't know how you managed to keep your cool when your mother made a mountain out of your humming. It really is amazing, isn't it? I mean, any normal person would think that someone humming is evidence of them being happy and having a good day. Only an N would turn something nice so horribly around like that. I can totally identify with going "what the hell?" with these people. They just come way out of left field all the time!
The update on this saga is that I replied to her last email and all its desperate, probing questions with a "Hi, gee, at first I was so confused by your email but then I realized you must not have got my last one a week ago where I said everything is fine on my end and thanked you for the gifts you sent. Must have been a server problem."
Two days later she replies, "Thanks for the email Rojo, I am glad you are both well. We live in a dangerous world all round and I get a bit twitchy when I don't here from you
[But she had!]and the rest of the family even if it's a one line of " hi we are all well this end"
[I had done just that with 12 lines!!!] Especially from your side, I don't know where any of your friends live and there are no close relatives around you
[Thank God for the miracle that is emmigration!!!] so if something had to happen to you and [your husband](heaven forebid) we would not know anything.
[Ok, so she just assumes our friends wouldn't know what to do and wouldn't call her?]. YOur phone is always on an answering service
[Duh, because my mother is insane 
] and the 9 hours time difference does not help and you don't have a text messaging service
[Because I'm not a masochist!] which is the easiest and cheapest way to say hi.
[Like there's ever a simple "Hi" with her...RIIIIGHT!] So you just have to put up with my crap.
[Crap it is and who the hell is she to tell me what I HAVE to do?!]Isn't it amazing how deaf, assumptive and bossy these people are?
Scotch anyone? LOL!!!
God bless,
Rojo
