My mother’s favourite movie is Superman.
There is one reason for this, and one reason only. Because it always gives her the chance to embarrass me with the following story.

I was a little wee Scarpe, a little four year old thing, when they took me to the cinema to see it. Apparently I sat wiggling with excitement in my seat, unable to contain myself. This continued right up until Lex Luthor has Superman, weakened by Kryptonite, drowning in his swimming pool. At which point, poor distraught little me, tears streaming down my chubby little cheeks, ran, screaming to the front of the cinema and yelled at the screen, ‘Come On Superman, You Can Do It!!!!!’ to gales of laughter from the rest of the audience.

To which I responded by having a tantrum and repeating in my snotty high pitched sob ‘stop laughing, stop laughing, stop laughing’.

Sadly, my embarrassment doesn’t end there, as the story has a post script.

Eight years later, I have friends round for my birthday party and we have Superman on video (or it may have been on the TV, I forget), which prompts my Mum to tell all my friends the above story.

Which results in 12 year old me stomping my feet and crying again while saying ‘stop talking, stop talking, I hate you, I hate you’.

I’m now 34 and my Mum still tells that story to anyone she meets for the first time.

Cow.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 11:19, 4 replies)

Awesome! *Clicks*
And everyone should click this so it wins this weeks QOTW so that more people know. Then you can stomp your feet some more :D

Good answer, far more interesting to read than a list of movie titles :)
(Miggyman, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 11:22, closed)

You're not related to Legless are you?
He had a similar experience with Bambi. Except he was a full grown adult at the time and stoned off his box...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 18 Jul 2008, 11:23, closed)

My Ma does that to me all the time
especially with new girlfriends. Imagining trying to mount the brand new missus and she turns around and says, "What if I say 'no'?. Will you throw a tantrum?" then pisses herself laughing at you.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 11:34, closed)

parents are evil
Mine still have me branded as a bad loser ever since I cried about going down a snake in a game of Snakes and Ladders when I was 4. In actual fact, their teasing moulded me into a gracious loser and left me with huge issues about competitiveness. The cunts.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 12:01, closed)