The pregnancy homone Iritatin* causes normal phone conversations to be cut short from increased annoyance on the part of mom-to-be.
My mom called earlier to demand her Mother's Day salutations and handed my brother the phone for a second to talk. He's 14, so half of what he says when I'm not pregnant pisses me off. Imagine that nothing has changed. We had a short conversation as such:
Him: "The baby's going to have my nose." [And what a nose it is...]
Me: "Doubtful, seeing as how you have your father's nose and we don't have the same father."
Him: "Well, it's going to have my eyes."
Me: "I just don't think that's likely."
Him: "Have you started walking like a chicken yet?"
Me: "..."
If my mom hadn't be sitting in the front seat of the car within earshot of the cellphone I would have cussed him up and down.
Furthermore, my paranoid mother is convinced that my mother-in-law will take over every major aspect of my child's life fully overshadowing any other family that exists. I used to get yelled at because I'm "sensitive" and tend to "overreact." How can you not overreact when people say stupid shit like that?
*not a real hormone
Posted by Tiffany at May 14, 2006 05:00 PM | TrackBackMarry someone whose inlaws don't speak your language? Worked for me.
Actually, I'm being facetious. My mother-in-law was a saint. I don't think I have enough lifetime left to become half the person she was.
Posted by: MarkD at May 14, 2006 06:23 PM