The Stuff of Legends..
My parents are of the slightly older generation; my Mum was 40 when she had me, pretty unusual 25 years ago. My Mum is also very handy with a sewing machine and over the years, supplied my sister and I with the latest “fashions” (when your 12, your 52 year old mother, doesn’t quite “get” fashion) She made herself a pair of trousers, using 4 different types of tartan. Yes, tartan. Not the nice kind of dark tartans, 4 really bright, yellow, green-y ones..
My Mum also loves plants. We had a huge garden, always full of plants, trees, she’d keep them in the bath, the living room, always lots beside the piano (makes them happy apparently)
My Mum is a legend, ALL because of the following incident:
Arrives at our High School, to pick up my sister. Her classmates know what my Mum is like and lock sister in the cupboard till Mum gets out of the car…. Wearing, said tartan trousers, shocking pink socks, with the trousers tucked into them (don’t know why) the most battered pair of trainers (Hi tech ones from around 1988), a woolly body warmer and a t-shirt (thankfully, a normal one) and wanders into the school reception. Spotting that the office staff don’t take good care of the plants, she decides to take them home for some “TLC”. So, she starts to load about 20 plants from the school, into the car. Meanwhile my sisters classmates sit and laugh, while she is still in the cupboard. Eventually they let her out, sister goes down to usher Mum out the school before any MORE of her friends can see her, rushing a 57 year old woman, wearing the most obnoxious pair of trousers, shouting loudly about how these poor plants were all dying. That was nearly 10 years ago and we have tried in vain to dispose of the trousers, but they are my Mums favourite item of clothing. I haven’t let her make me any clothes recently.
I'm sure she's going mad: She recently asked "What are those green things that look like Lemons"
(earplugsdont _work and I'm fed up listening., Fri 6 Jul 2007, 22:24, Reply)