Another Outbreak of Foot-In-Mouth Disease.

[mumma to KMC]

Except the person who is infected won't seek treatment.

Yesterday after Mass, we had a reception for our Pastor who had been gone for 3 months, to welcome him back. The parish we go to is the same parish my dh's whole family attends. We all gathered in the gym for cake and punch and "fellowship". I was talking to my sil about something when I heard my mil going off on how ugly the state we live in is. Then she started in on the farmers and how ugly they make the state look. (Hey to me there is something appealing about corn, soybeans, dairy cows and fruit trees.) She wasn't very quiet about it either. I heard her over the din of screaming children and talking adults.

I whispered to my sil "Poor Mrs. C, she is stuck talking to your mom. Your mom is going off about farmers." Sil's eyes got really big and she said "That's just great, Mr. C is a farmer."

[twinkletoes]

"I whispered to my sil "Poor Mrs. C, she is stuck talking to your mom. Your mom is going off about farmers." Sil's eyes got really big and she said "That's just great, Mr. C is a farmer.""

Did you start praying for the ground to open up and swallow you or your MIL whole?  At least, that's what I did when my mom's friend started ranting about the firefighters in town...right to the fire marshal's face.  No, she didn't know it at the time.  Unfortunately, once it's been said, it's hard to put a spin on it.  "Oh, no, she called the firefighters 'fat jerks' because, uh, she thinks they're really muscular.  Yeah, that's it.  You're not buying that, are you?"

[mumma to KMC]

Did you start praying for the ground to open up and swallow you or your MIL whole?

Once I found out Mr. C was a farmer, yes. Well prior to that I wanted her to shut the heck up as she was talking very loudly!

[Twik]

I was talking to my sil about something when I heard my mil going off on how ugly the state we live in is. Then she started in on the farmers and how ugly they make the state look. (Hey to me there is something appealing about corn, soybeans, dairy cows and fruit trees.)

As opposed to what? Natural, unspoiled wilderness? Or would she prefer it to all be suburbia?

[kathrynne]

I was talking to my sil about something when I heard my mil going off on how ugly the state we live in is. Then she started in on the farmers and how ugly they make the state look. (Hey to me there is something appealing about corn, soybeans, dairy cows and fruit trees.)

As opposed to what? Natural, unspoiled wilderness? Or would she prefer it to all be suburbia?

Stripmalls! That's the ticket! Let's just pave it all over and put up one huge stripmall. That way we can all take our groceries off the nice, tidy shelves (provided they're stocked correctly) instead of someone having to deal with all that dirt and fertilizer and icky stuff. @@@