Daily Nugget

Yet another memory nugget to prove I am not crazy when I say she is crazy:

Many years ago, my mother decided she was dying again/still.
Not getting enough attention with her usual moans, groans, and pleas for help...she decided to raise the stakes.

It was about 1993, and she was on yet another kick about my dad being a workaholic.
(Never mind that his work paid for the extravagant things that she insisted she needed.)

For whatever reason she decided she was not feeling well that day (read: not getting enough special treatment).

When my dad was getting ready for bed, she informed him that she'd had several small strokes during the day, and that THE BIG ONE would probably come during the middle of the night. Therefore, would he check on her during the night to see if she was unconscious.

Because it was late, and he was afraid of getting yet another "Nobody-notices-how-sick-I've-been-for-years" lecture, he agreed.

THEN she says... "and if in the morning I am unconscious or dead, please call the ambulance. But you don't have to stay. You can go on to work. All I ask is that you leave the door unlocked so the paramedics can get in."

Yep... life with Mother was never boring.