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Giving PA people what they "want" (Stories!) UPDATE P27
BabyMama:
--- Quote from: Traska AKA Diane on December 31, 2012, 11:02:44 AM ---Talk about self-defeating...
Unless what she really wants isn't time, but trashing... in which case, I'd have to say you can both get what you want out of it.
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What she REALLY wanted was for us to go over there and make a big fuss over her. Which my sister would have done if I hadn't been there.
Did I mention that one of the people she was on the phone all night was my cousin, who lives in New York (so half the country away.) And it was her birthday. Nothing like spending your birthday in NYC on the phone with a crazy person.
weeblewobble:
--- Quote from: bloo on December 31, 2012, 10:07:38 AM ---
--- Quote from: weeblewobble on December 31, 2012, 12:52:50 AM ---
--- Quote from: bloo on December 30, 2012, 09:41:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: elephantschild on December 30, 2012, 09:33:56 PM ---Good gravy, weeblewobble, she sounds like a nightmare. :P I'm pretty sure my MIL blames me for the fact that her son will no longer, you know, come down and move furniture or run errands for her on a moment's notice, but Linda's MIL makes her look like a saint!
And is it awful for me to admit I really, really want to hear the wedding planning stories? >:D
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Yes please Weeble! If Linda's MIL is not PA, maybe she'll need her own thread but I'd also look forward to the guilty pleasure of hearing about the wedding planning stories!
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I don't want to give too many stories for fear of being identified, they were pretty specific. Let's just say that one of Don's sisters actively tried (and succeeded) to conceive so she would be heavily pregnant at the wedding, "because it's not fair that Don and Linda get so much attention." Linda figured that was the sister's choice and she wasn't about to complain.
But during the rehearsal dinner, the mother of the bride heard this sister talk about pretending that she was going into labor during the vows and causing a big disruption. It was not said in a joking tone. I believe the mother of the bride's response was to tell the sister that the MOB would wait until Sis gave birth and then smack the stupid right out of her. Sis of course pitched a fit about being threatened and it turned into a big ugly scene.
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Gulp! :-[ Maybe I wouldn't be able to handle the Don-n-Linda Saga!
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PS, by MOB, I mean the mother-of-the-bride, not an organized crime family.
PastryGoddess:
--- Quote from: weeblewobble on December 31, 2012, 12:52:50 AM ---
--- Quote from: bloo on December 30, 2012, 09:41:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: elephantschild on December 30, 2012, 09:33:56 PM ---Good gravy, weeblewobble, she sounds like a nightmare. :P I'm pretty sure my MIL blames me for the fact that her son will no longer, you know, come down and move furniture or run errands for her on a moment's notice, but Linda's MIL makes her look like a saint!
And is it awful for me to admit I really, really want to hear the wedding planning stories? >:D
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Yes please Weeble! If Linda's MIL is not PA, maybe she'll need her own thread but I'd also look forward to the guilty pleasure of hearing about the wedding planning stories!
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I don't want to give too many stories for fear of being identified, they were pretty specific. Let's just say that one of Don's sisters actively tried (and succeeded) to conceive so she would be heavily pregnant at the wedding, "because it's not fair that Don and Linda get so much attention." Linda figured that was the sister's choice and she wasn't about to complain.
But during the rehearsal dinner, the mother of the bride heard this sister talk about pretending that she was going into labor during the vows and causing a big disruption. It was not said in a joking tone. I believe the mother of the bride's response was to tell the sister that the MOB would wait until Sis gave birth and then smack the stupid right out of her. Sis of course pitched a fit about being threatened and it turned into a big ugly scene.
PS, by MOB, I mean the mother-of-the-bride, not an organized crime family.
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Tell me someone popped popcorn for all of this
Hillia:
--- Quote from: weeblewobble on December 31, 2012, 12:52:50 AM ---I don't want to give too many stories for fear of being identified, they were pretty specific. Let's just say that one of Don's sisters actively tried (and succeeded) to conceive so she would be heavily pregnant at the wedding, "because it's not fair that Don and Linda get so much attention." Linda figured that was the sister's choice and she wasn't about to complain.
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And what a charming story for their children. Most parents can start with 'Mommy and Daddy loved each other and we were so happy when you came along!' This poor kid gets 'We wanted to mess up Brother's wedding and this was the best way we could think of'. Of course they may well have been planning to have a baby anyway and just delighted in the chance to time it this way, but I can't imagine people who treat their siblings that way will be much more loving towards their kids.
Kimblee:
--- Quote from: Hillia on December 31, 2012, 03:09:37 PM ---
--- Quote from: weeblewobble on December 31, 2012, 12:52:50 AM ---I don't want to give too many stories for fear of being identified, they were pretty specific. Let's just say that one of Don's sisters actively tried (and succeeded) to conceive so she would be heavily pregnant at the wedding, "because it's not fair that Don and Linda get so much attention." Linda figured that was the sister's choice and she wasn't about to complain.
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And what a charming story for their children. Most parents can start with 'Mommy and Daddy loved each other and we were so happy when you came along!' This poor kid gets 'We wanted to mess up Brother's wedding and this was the best way we could think of'. Of course they may well have been planning to have a baby anyway and just delighted in the chance to time it this way, but I can't imagine people who treat their siblings that way will be much more loving towards their kids.
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Wow... I think that's actually a more heartless baby conception story than my friend in high school who charted her cycles so her teen pregnancy would net her the maximum ammount of college financial aid possible. (She managed to get a totally free ride to college between getting a grant for single moms, one per year for teen mothers, one for her cheerleading and one for being a minority. Plus some small scholarships for various other activities. It took some serious planning to pull what she did!) Student loans weren't an option because of a lack of qualified co-signers IIRC.
For the record, the "college" baby is seven now, and is VERY loved. To my knowladge she has never come right out and admitted to the kid that it was born because Mommy wanted to go to college and couldn't get a loan.
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