We could probably all relate to this! My girlfriend was just telling me something similar about her mother today. We had a good laugh and she told me that her mother used to say that if she ever got to be like her mother to just shoot her. My girlfriend said that a little while ago, that one of her sisters-in-laws, after a conversation with the mother, said "Get out the gun!" LOL

I know i'm not like my mother. (Oh God, i hope not! LOL)

Pudge, sounds like a Seinfeld episode! LOL

I admit, I use coupons ;) I'm not a fanatic about it, but I do save a few hundred dollars a year by using them.

Waaay too funny Pudge! Sounds like my Grandma, she is 92, bless her nonogenarian soul, and since she isn't allowed to cook or go shopping anymore she clips coupons for me. She also hoards plastic bags for me and offers to give me her polyester grandma pants everytime I visit her (just go in that drawer over there, there is a pair of nice mauve pants that are too long for me, you take them). Never mind the fact that they are size 18 petite and I am size 7 tall. And that I would run naked before I wore polyester grandma pants.

Aw, c'mon, Gil - you could take them in and wear them as capris, couldn't you? :>

Pudge, this is way too funny. I guess the most important question is, tho, - How'd they do at the casino? Did they win $10.00? That would have made their day.

Bless both of my mothers' souls - my mom has been gone for 11 years and my MIL for four. I miss them both dreadfully. But they both decided that to really get me, they had to pass away on the same day of the year. I guess they figured that's the only way I would remember the date. LOL! I always knew that they were conspiring together to get me somehow. But, reading your escapades of the other day, Pudge, I could just imagine the two of them or my mother with one of her seven Victorian sisters. I think I would have been ripping my hair out by the end of that one. I am giggling so hard as I write this.

I keep looking in the mirror and catching my mom looking back at me. That's what drives me crazy. Or when I talk (yell, scream, nag, whatever) to my kids with the same voice that I heard when I was a teenager. Yeesh. I hate myself when I do that.

I already have days when I think it would be nice to just be able to be in the big garden in the sky. Just like the bubble or those cream cheese commercials. When my dad was departing, he used to drift into unconsciousness for brief times. He came out of one such spell and started telling me about the wonderful greenhouse that they had waiting for him - "It's so lush and green - just like a jungle. And you don't have to be afraid. It smells so nice and fresh, like damp earth." I think of that all the time and now I have days that I can hardly wait to get there. : )

Shauna

I'm glad you all enjoyed the story - I figured some would be able to relate.

I don't think they won much - enough to keep playing probably. I went in to pick them up, decided to try my luck and lost $20 in about 5 minutes, so I know that's not somewhere I could go for hours at a time.

I think casino's are like an arcade for the elderly. Lots of grey haired people milling about and I'm kind of surprised that they put up with all the noise those machines generate.

Shauna, it sounds to me like your dad had a great sense of peace - that must be very comforting.

I get to take them both again on Thursday when I have to go again. I guess I'd better search out the coupons beforehand to be prepared.

Pudge, your coupon story was so funny! I can so relate, I spend way too much time with 80+ year old people, they almost drive me over the edge. Last weekend I was at my mom's afternoon b'day party, I was the only one there under 80, oh, the stuff they talk about, I can barely hold my tongue and want to run screaming out of there.

And when you do say something, tabardca, are you ever right? :) My mother-in-law is 80, so i can certainly relate!

Priceless!

Oh that is SOOO incredibly my MIL who is 71 now. She is a coupon fanatic. Its so funny. She even goes so far as to take a coupon from one store and try using it at another store where the same product is cheaper. She really does "win" sometimes! Too funny. I tend to be busy looking at other stuff some distance away though. Hehehehe!

I do use coupons but ***fingers crossed*** I'm not as fanatic as my MIL about it (my kids may disagree with that statement though! LOL). I love the SuperStore "Item of the Week" coupons, especially the $30.00 off when you spend $250 ones! I literally do shopping for 2 weeks just to get them! Sure helps!

No Marcia, I am never right. One of the "guests" started arguing with me about whether one of the plates I picked up off the table after lunch was clean or not! I stacked the lunch plates and she hollered out, "that one plate is clean!" I didn't respond, I mean, it is one plate, argh! So she said it again, must think I am hard of hearing or something, so I said "it isn't clean, one plate was mine and one was the cheese plate." She finally let it go. Oh my gawd, I loathe those events.

I worked in an "old folks home" many years ago - not a PC thing to call them now. I think the one i worked in is now called something like a "long term care facility". I loved the old people there. Many of them were like kids again (now i work with kids! LOL). Most of these people had some form of dementia, so working with them was a lot different from dealing with your regular senior citizen, like my mother-in-law. I love her dearly, but boy is she crabby! :)

Yesterday's trip to the city was much easier - I didn't take them to Superstore! LOL. Neither needed groceries, but they did spend a bit of time in Wal Mart and both commented on their need for shoes. Of course, taking them to anywhere that charges more than $20 for a pair of shoes is fruitless.

So I dropped them at the Casino, again, and while I was cruising The Bay found a great shoe sale. When I went to pick them up again and got them settled, I informed them we were going back to The Bay cause they had some great old lady shoes on 75% off. There was a bunch more 50% off the sale price. That got them excited (still flushed after spending 3 hours on the penny machines in the Casino). In to The Bay we go where these boxes of shoes were stacked really poorly, falling all over the place but that sure didn't deter these two (plus me helping). My mom walked out with 3 pair for $25, Tilly unfortunately has a more common size which were pretty much sold out. My mom, though, was grinning from ear to ear - she loves a good deal just as much as I do (hmm, maybe I am like my mom after all, LOL).

Do they actually have penny machines at a casino? My dh would be all set then. He'd like to go sometime but he hates to risk too much - even a nickel might be too much! LOL I have no interest whatsoever - just drop me at a nursery and come back a couple hours later with all your winnings!