I got to thinking about this this morning. Just wanted to share.
NM is very self righteous and never watches anything on tv that is the LEAST bit 'off color'. Her standards for tv are set very high and she gets very huffy if anything is on that she doesn't approve of.
My NGM came to live with us after my DGF died. NM loved to play the martyr over this. That she had to take (minimal at first) care of my NGM. NGM is my EF's mom.
But about the tv...NGM figured out how much my mom hated certain tv shows. NM wouldn't watch soaps and NGM loved them etc. NGM had a sitting room set up in the back of the house and she sat back there almost exclusively, watching tv or reading. NGM started watching Jerry Springer while living with us. NM had a cow over this. I believe at one point she told NGM that she did not want that type of thing in her house. So NGM started watching it with the volume turned all the way up. Omg, I'm laughing right now just thinking about it. Every morning at 9 you'd hear her turn it to Springer and then the volume would go up, up, up.
NM & NGM in the same house were an interesting mix. They were verbally sparring constantly. There was one instance where NM stuck her tongue out at NGM and NGM returned the favor. They both like to have a public image of being upright, put together, pillars of society. Ha! They were two big six year olds.
NGM was interesting. I think I could see her games more clearly since I wasn't as emotionally involved with her. Her bedroom was next to mine and she would beat on the wall with her cane if I wasn't up by nine. Even though I worked second shift. My parents went on vacation for a week after I moved out and I agreed to help my NGM out while they were gone. I drove 30 minutes twice a day to fix her meals and sit and talk with her for at least an hour each time. When my parents got back they asked if I had been by and NGM said, 'No, I never saw her.' I refused to help with her again after that.
Every time NGM saw me she would say, 'Pull your shirt down, your butt looks fat.' She was such a classic N. From her early thirties she was 'too sick' to do much of anything. I don't know how old she was when she took to her recliner and never really did anything after that. I would say it was in her fifties. Surprise, she lived into her mid-nineties. Didn't have any real health issues until she was in her 80's.
When my DGF was alive, NGM decided he was having an affair. I believe this was just a series of attention getting stunts she pulled over the years. Well she decided she was going to call everybody and tell them about how DGF was doing this. Her pastor actually ended up calling my parents to ask them to tell her to stop calling. Her pastor! I don't think NGM actually had any proof of this. It was just another attention getting ploy.
Oh FOO, what do I do with you?
Worn
