<p>So, after twelve days the MIL is back with the favored son. Twenty eight hours after the scheduled arrival I get a call (after the late news), “We’re back!”</p>
<p>Are you aware that you told us and your mother that you would pick her up today? You told us that you would be home last night?</p>
<p>And I quote verbatim, “Whoops.”</p>
<p>She ran out of her medicine which you packed in one of those daily boxes, ran out of underwear…guess what…you screwed up. She was so upset that I called my oncologist to find out if I should be her baby aspiring just in case. He said yes. </p>
<p>Ran to the maid’s room to tell MIL that favored one was home. She cried from reliev (understandable).</p>
<p>“I’m kinda of tired. Can I pick Mom up at twelve?”</p>
<p>No, I’ve got things to do. Can you make it by 10? </p>
<p>no…He meandered in at 10:45. </p>
<p>Gave us a souvenir (with price tag on) from the travels. </p>
<p>Next time, give us an iternerary, emergency contact, AND perhaps don’t go away again. She pays you to take care of her. Do it.</p>
<p>Now that son is away at college, I’d like to go back to work full-time and make a living. I know I’ve been the chauffeur of the family for the last 18 years, but you have a driver’s license. Pick up your own medicine at the drugstore.</p>
<p>I hate when CCers go: “do I have a shot?” and they have an SAT of 2350, super GPA and magnificent ECs, so, what do they as that question for, not only that, why do they trash other CCers with lesser credentials, as if they were not worth of existing? Btw, who are we to judge anyway, we are not working for the adcoms!</p>
<p>I am still in shock to have sat in a room full of teachers who freely admitted they have NEVER called a parent in their many years of teaching high school. Called as in initiating a call when a student was failing or had behavior problems. Seriously?</p>
<p>It is 64 degrees in the office. That is too cold. I am sorry you overextended yourself and didn’t follow up on collecting from deadbeats. I get to the office at 8:30 am every day. I do not like arriving to 20 emails that you started sending from home at 4:00 am. You hired me to work as a paralegal on a part-time basis. All of this work cannot be done in the hours you allow me to work. Now I find out you ripped the other employee off by refusing to pay overtime and you have some bull**** incentive system that is supposed to compensate us for our hard work above and beyond? Guess what. I’m not going to play.</p>
<p>To the driver ahead of me this morning:
“Yield” means just that. OK, you couldn’t figure out how to mesh with the highway traffic so you had to stop. But you remained stationary until you couldn’t see another car coming. Anywhere.</p>
<p>Sheeeeeesh. I am SO glad no one rear-ended me while I waited for you to wake up.</p>
<p>Aren’t you tired? When I’m not really angry at your blantant hypocrisy, I am lmao that you are so worked up about this issue, that losing that one battle seven years ago apparently still so irks you that you have continued your jihad to this day. The only thing I regret is that because you have harped so loud and so long that some people actually believe you. But more and more people are beginning to see right through your back-room maneuverings; I just hope the powers that be do as well. I’m wondering whether I can help that process along …</p>
<p>To my big brother who talked to me on the phone via long distance from our parents house a thousand miles away on Thanksgiving Day - is it really necessary to repeatedly refer to me and my nuclear family as “people like you” ? Do you think by the age of 57 you might finally grow-up?</p>
<p>Please don’t respond to work emails from your phone. You aren’t reading with comprehension and hence your responses don’t make sense. They just waste everyone’s time, and most importantly mine. It would be so much better if you waited to actually read and think before responding.</p>
<p>Yeah, my kid is going to Rutgers and saving us a ton of $ that we told her we will apply to grad school. Sorry you can’t understand it and only think some overpriced LAC can work for your spoiled brat. Yeah, she probably would have gotten into an Ivy, but she’s happy with her choice. I would never pay $50,000+ to send my kid to school to major in English.</p>
<p>You left it all to the last minute as usual and now your computer is broken. It looks like this could be the point in which you prove to yourself if you have it in you to complete the job. I am watching quietly but my nerves are shot. Why do you continue to function in a way that has never proved to work for you?</p>
<p>Please, all you men out there: Remember to think of your wives, girlfriends and sisters this holiday season–especially the really nice, sacrificial ones who’d do anything for you. Why is it that the demanding and ***chy women seem to get better results come gift-giving time than the humble, sweet ones? It’s not the gift that’s important–it’s the fact that you took the time to think about these special ladies (rather than just about yourselves) and what they might appreciate.</p>
<p>I know there is a learning curve to college, but you’ve been here a full semester now. You should know how to take notes successfully by now. You are holding the rest of the 120 person class back by asking the instructor to repeat every other word/slide. Really, it’s Intro to Biology…it’s not Rocket Science 400.</p>
<p>Thank goodness I am not a single woman ! You are probably the biggest jerk I have seen out there looking for your " soul mate " blech…it was not pleasant being in your company and hearing all about how much you hate the state we live in and how you love ballroom dancing and singing the merits of subserviant Asian women…if you were putting out feelers to see if any of the others at our table are supportive of you getting yourself a mail -order bride, then you are a bigger *#@~ than I thought possible</p>