Horrible Old Woman

[poliphilo]

Dot is vile to Ailz. For instance, in the car today she was telling us how much she dislikes the CD we bought her for her birthday. The only song she likes is the final track, all the other songs are wrong in one way or another and one of them is about happiness and that's the last thing she needs.    At the time I listened to her dodder her way through the complaint and thought, "Poor senile old thing, one can't take this seriously." But afterwards I reflected on the content- divorced from the dodder- and thought, "No. Actually, that was poisonous!"

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[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

My mother in law is a similar sort, with the added bonus of being sweet as honey to everyone not related by blood our marriage. Reserving the Mr. Hyde side of your personality for the people in your life who would find it more difficult to avoid you is especially insidious. My MIL has the daughters she treats rather cruelly. For myself, I had little difficulty writing her off years ago. She lives only 25min away, but in the last 10 years I've said maybe 10 words to her.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I have as little to do with Dot as I can. My role is to support Ailz. That said, we're taking the old hyena to the shops this afternoon.