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"My mom's dead."

MalkavianMalkavian
edited 2011-08-30 22:05:29 in Meatspace
MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
Son of a bitch, I really fucking hate when this comes up in conversation. Usually it's just me talking to someone and family comes up and I mention my father and how he trades in vintage memorabilia and how I live with him and my sister at the moment while currently 'between jobs' and then the next question comes up.

"So what does your mom do?"

I've made peace more or less with her passing but it's not really something I think you can really get over. In addition to just really abruptly depressing me it completely stops the conversation dead and makes the other person feel like an asshole even though they didn't do anything wrong and I sit there feeling weird while waiting a few minutes after the subject has changed so I can be alone for a bit.

Gah. First world problems.

Comments

  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    People curious about you are inevitably going to ask about your Mother.
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    I don't really get this very often, but that might just be because I don't work.

    On the plus side, you're practically immune to all "Your Mom" jokes ever.
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    Awww. You do your best to avoid digging up old stuff and it sucks when you get unintentionally cornered into it.

    I'm usually on the opposite end in this. Though there was one time where someone was a major douche and pretended one of his family members was dead when I asked about her.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    I have a friend whose mom died of cancer when he was a kid. He doesn't seem to get depressed or offended if it gets brought up, but I sure as hell don't want to go down that path of awkwardness.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    ^^^^Yeah, I know. They're not doing anything wrong. It still sucks when it happens though.

    ^^Jesus. What a douche bag. I can't even fathom why someone would feel the need to lie about that.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    @Malkavian.

    Sympathy fishing ~puts on a fisher's hat~

    You just got to line the bait ~puts on a tag labelled "Dead Relative"~

    and then bam, you're doing something morally wrong. ~hits the lever for "Whhhhy.jpeg"~
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I guess, but in my experience most people tend to have a proverbial shotgun or two for sympathy fishing that they shouldn't have to lie.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    Beats me ~shrug~


  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Also,

    "Gah. First world problems."

    This doesn't count as a first world problem. The loss of a family member is almost universally tragic.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    I think Malk is just saying that because he feels people who express problems whilst in a First World Country are complete whiners.


  • MalkavianMalkavian
    edited 2011-08-30 22:45:05
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    'The conversation just became awkward' is though.

    ^Well, I can't speak for all first world country members but I certainly am one.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    What about the part about the thought being depressing?
  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person
    Oh fun, I can look forward to this? Any tricks from steering the conversation away from that question?
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    If I knew any, I would be using them already. =/
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    You could always try Black-Humor/Comedy as a means of shutting them up.

    "So what does your mom do?"

    "Well, I wouldn't call her an archaeologist, but she sure spends a lot of her time in the dirt"
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    "My mom loved gardening so much she decided to become fertilizer!" (twirls cigar)
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    "My Mom moved to the sea... you could even say, she's sleeping with the fishes"


  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person
    Bluh it's late at night, I can't think of any cremation jokes that don't tip over into black humor.
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    You could say that now I call my mom...mummy.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    not sure if i should laugh
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    edited 2011-08-31 01:10:23
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I joined in, so it's cool by international law of I Say So So Go Fuck Yourself.
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    If there are cheesy jokes to be made, it's pretty much a rule for Malky and I to make them.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Yo momma so dead, the worms that ate her are decomposing.

    Yo momma so dead, it makes Mr T.'s career feel alive just thinking about her.

    Yo momma so dead, necromancer guilds haze new recruits by tasking them to revive her.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Goddammit. I'm gonna feel awkward if that's the last post.
  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person
    Keep posting after yourself. Let it become a singularity of awkwardness.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    A black hole of sheer wrong.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    ^ I read that as Sheen wrong for a second, as in, "A black hole of (Charlie) Sheen wrong."
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