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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 60524" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bby31288</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Its funny while my mom can't qualify for difficult child status. It seems as she gets older, she is 67 I think. She just says whatever she wants wherever she wants...You know when you are thinking something in your mind, but you know socially you can't say it out loud. Well know she just does. She said she is old and can speak whatever she feels like it. Its downright embarrassing when we are out in public. :smile: </div></div></p><p></p><p>My mom too! She claims she's "put in her time and now she can speak her mind when and where she darned well pleases" Ugh - it is soooo embarrassing at times. And her manners have gone out the window. When she asks for something, whether it's family or strangers, she uses hand signals and just says "give me that will you?" No Please or Thank you or anything. It's horrifying when we're in a restaurant and she needs something. She's rude to the waitresses and staff. One time we were waiting for a table at this nice decent restaurant and she decided to cry and act like she was going into a diabetic coma for lack of food (mom is not malnourished and never goes long without food). The hostess came running over and my mom was surprisingly lucid enough to demand 'that nice rosemary bread you have' and a 'cold drink, maybe orange juice or some red wine'. My H and I just gaped at her. Haha - She was fine, it was all an act so we could beat everyone else waiting out and get a table!!! Ugh. I was mortified.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 60524, member: 2211"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bby31288</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Its funny while my mom can't qualify for difficult child status. It seems as she gets older, she is 67 I think. She just says whatever she wants wherever she wants...You know when you are thinking something in your mind, but you know socially you can't say it out loud. Well know she just does. She said she is old and can speak whatever she feels like it. Its downright embarrassing when we are out in public. [img]:smile:[/img] </div></div> My mom too! She claims she's "put in her time and now she can speak her mind when and where she darned well pleases" Ugh - it is soooo embarrassing at times. And her manners have gone out the window. When she asks for something, whether it's family or strangers, she uses hand signals and just says "give me that will you?" No Please or Thank you or anything. It's horrifying when we're in a restaurant and she needs something. She's rude to the waitresses and staff. One time we were waiting for a table at this nice decent restaurant and she decided to cry and act like she was going into a diabetic coma for lack of food (mom is not malnourished and never goes long without food). The hostess came running over and my mom was surprisingly lucid enough to demand 'that nice rosemary bread you have' and a 'cold drink, maybe orange juice or some red wine'. My H and I just gaped at her. Haha - She was fine, it was all an act so we could beat everyone else waiting out and get a table!!! Ugh. I was mortified. [/QUOTE]
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