My mom is a major SC.

[Joyius]

I so apologize to anyone who has the unfortunate luck to serve my 5'0" mother who is a major SC. We went shopping to get me some paint and fake blood for my costume, she walked up to some poor girl wearing a red hoodie and went. "Excuse me! Where is your craft paint!" The girl ignored her and my mom rolled her eyes and went "Ugh, whatever!" . Even after I yelled at her that the woman wasn't an employee she just shook her head at me. She's also even worse at flying, she'll demand to have the whole three seats to herself cause she wants to lay down and sleep.

Someone please give my mom an anti-sc shot...and remind me why I ever ask to go shopping with her?

[Kristev]

I wish there were such things as nice person potion.

[Mel]

Ugh, it sucks when it's someone you know! Even worse when it's family!

[Merriweather]

I so apologize to anyone who has the unfortunate luck to serve my 5'0" mother who is a major SC. We went shopping to get me some paint and fake blood for my costume, she walked up to some poor girl wearing a red hoodie and went. "Excuse me! Where is your craft paint!" The girl ignored her and my mom rolled her eyes and went "Ugh, whatever!" . Even after I yelled at her that the woman wasn't an employee she just shook her head at me. She's also even worse at flying, she'll demand to have the whole three seats to herself cause she wants to lay down and sleep.

Someone please give my mom an anti-sc shot...and remind me why I ever ask to go shopping with her?

You have my sympathy, dealing with an SC mother is never easy. As the daughter of a major SC, I know.

I've no idea at what age it dawned on me that the correct thing to do at the movies is to drop your popcorn container, etc. into the trash on your way out, not leave it on the floor "because it's the usher's job to clean it up" as I'd been told since I was old enough to go to the movies with my mom. I'm sure I was still making discoveries of the "right" way to handle some things well into adulthood. Lists of all the bad examples I had could go on for quite a long time.

Worst thing is, my mom worked retail She worked on and off at several types of jobs during my childhood, but the best, and her favourite, was working in the meat department at supermarkets in several places we lived.

[Pixilated]

At least you realized at some point that your mom's method of doing things was often wrong, instead of just blindly continuing to follow her lead ...

Mine hardly leaves the house anymore but she gets really snippy with telemarketers. I know the calls can be annoying but I've tried to tell her they are doing a job (for the record, I've never been one) and if she says "No thanks, not interested" politely, most will go away. Those who won't, well, those are the ones you get snippy with -- or just hang up on.

Not having much luck, though, I'm afraid, so if anybody out there in telemarketer-land has called my mom ... my apologies ...

[PepperElf]

she'll demand to have the whole three seats to herself cause she wants to lay down and sleep.

With other passengers (paying customers) sitting in them? I mean what happens if the plane's full up?

[thatcrazyredhead]

You're not alone, Joyius! My mom has her moments, even though she spent at least 19 years working retail. She's not rude or an EW in general, it's just that sometimes she doesn't think.

There was the time that we wanted to go to a restaurant that was supposed to open at 4:00pm. Mom hadn't eaten all day and was really hungry. We arrived at the restaurant around 3:50pm. By 4:00, there was a line of maybe ten other people behind us. At 4:10, the restaurant still hadn't opened. We could see inside and it looked like a staff meeting was taking place. The hostess even came out to check the book at the podium once or twice, but she didn't say anything. At about 4:15pm, my mother had had enough of waiting politely. She started to chant, "We want food! We want food!" She got most of the people in line behind us to chant with her! I was absolutely mortified by her behavior and I hissed at her to knock it off. I told her that you don't piss off the people who see your food before you do (besides the fact that that was just plain rude). She didn't get it then and she doesn't get it now. We were finally let in soon after that, and I bent over backwards to be polite to the servers.

[Mytical]

You know those famous SC lines. "I'm never shopping here again.", "I've never been so insulted." etc..my dad uses those all the time.