On Friday the local ABC radio station had a rather odd talkback segment: people were invited to ring in and tell the stories about the most embarrassing thing their mothers had ever done.
Embarrassing? I thought. Was my late and much-lamented Ma ever embarrassing?
Couldn't think of a single time. Not once.
Mother's Day is a bit bleak these days, what with nobody to give a new dressing-gown to. So I'll cheer myself up by wishing all of my bloggy mates what is mothers themselves a very happy one. Especially Cristy and Zoe.
And did you hear the woman who said the best advice from her mother was 'a lady's greatest asset is a man's imagination'.
ReplyDeleteThirdcat, I wish my mother had the imagination to come up with summat like that.
ReplyDeleteThanks muchly for the wishes, PC.
My most embarrassing mother moment was when I invited my partner to my parents' place 6 years ago to meet them. As I made coffee I overheard my mother tell him: "Well, at least we Australians don't throw our children overboard."
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Me too, Pavlov.
ReplyDeleteI really can't believe that, PC. Surely all mothers are by definition embarrassing. And what was that thing Marguerite Duras said -- why does every woman think her mother is mad?
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteI plan to be a very embarrassing mother.
why does every woman think her mother is mad?
ReplyDeleteMy psychiatrist told me she was!
And thanks Pav - I tried to leave a ta yesterday but was foiled.
the not quite 5 month old on my lap looks embarrassed regularly.
ReplyDeletemy mother is embarassing too, but pales in comparison to her best friend. her children were and are routinely mortified.
My Mum isn't too bad, but the MIL has all the tact of a brick in the face so it evens out.
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My mother is very very very.
ReplyDeleteOnce she rode a horse to my workplace
(large govt office) and made me picnic in full view of half the building.
Seepi -- your mother sounds excellent!
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