It's official, I've become my mother.

Yes, the transformation is now complete. I've noticed a few words here and an action there before now, but never the full channeling of my mother until today.

My daughter has company over. Nothing unusual there. It starts with one guy then another shows up with his girlfriend. The new arrival has a chip on his shoulder. I have no idea about what but you can tell when the girl gets out of the car in my drive and he is raising his voice saying something to her out the window. They have a disagreement about whatever and he refuses to get out of the car. My daughter and her other guy friend try and reconcile the situation. Arms are being waved and hugs are being given. It appears to be under control.

Let me explain my driveway at this point. I live about 300 feet off the main road with a road-base gravel drive that leads into a curved 60 foot concrete drive in front of the house. He's parked on the concrete drive.

I'm back to cooking dinner keeping an eye out the window on the events. A third vehicle pulls up and it's another friend. I didn't know he had been called to defuse the situation but he had. He goes to the pouting one in the car and talks to him, then he goes to the crying (by this time) girl and talks to her.

All of a sudden the pouting one slams his car in reverse (leaving a black skid mark on my drive) and screeches onto the gravel. He backs up and peels out slinging gravel and digging ruts in my driveway. My daughter and her friend rush over and chastised him. I started for the front door. As soon as I opened it he peels out again digging more ruts and pelting the my daughter and her friend standing there in gravel, they yelled at him to stop and he does about 100 foot up the drive.

Here's where I became my mother.

I, somehow, made it to the side of the care before my daughter did and when she and her friends saw me coming they parted like the proverbial Red Sea. I'm at the side of the car holding onto window (which was open) leaning in and telling the pouting one what I thought of his actions before he even knew I was coming.

I'm not sure if my eyes rolled back in my head or not but I know I was slipping into channeling my mother at this point.

Me: I can see your angry, and that's fine, I don't know what's going on and I don't care. What I do care about is you using a 2,000 lb car to express your anger as if it helps to prove your point. It doesn't. All it does is make you look like a moody jerk who just jacked up my driveway, which you ARE going to fix by-the-way, and shows you don't respect other peoples property. <---- 100% channeling of my mother at this point.

Him: I'm sorry I didn't mean to.

Me: Yes, you did. You did it twice. Once is an oops, twice is a jerk.
Now get out and go in the garage and get a shovel and a rake and fix it.

Him: Yes Ma'am.

Me: I won't ever have to witness you behaving like this again, will I?

Him: No Ma'am.

He just finished and he and his girlfriend left.

Thanks mom. :)

The praise should go to my mother, really.

sneaks up on us...slowly, but surely.
:eyes: :shrug:

BTW. Your Mom must be a very smart woman.

EDIT: I would bet that his Mom never speaks to him that way, and he probably wishes she would.

She always dealt with things with a cool head but a firm hand. She really was the one there handling this, without her I never would have known how. :)

You did right. He won't act that way at your home again.

I did tell him he's still welcome here, so long as he respects my home and everyone in it, before he left.

You seem like a really cool mom to me! :yourock:

This was cool mom in hardcore mothering mode.

Been there too and it is SCARY when that channel opens. Ha Ha, this is really funny but hooray for you. I hope he now thinks about what a weapon he could have been in that car and stops to think the next time before he does that (oops, just channeled mine!). :)

I heard my voice uttering her words. I only wish I could have seen if I was mimicking her body language, too.

I really do hope he's more careful in the future. It's really is dangerous. He's a great guy, he just not done learning is all.

I wish a few more Moms would have done that to me in my youth...

RL

If you feel a need for reprimand give me a call and I'll see if I can channel my mother again. :)

My wife is pretty good at reprimands when needed. And her mom channels multiple generations of stern, farm-raised, no-nonsense, ass-kicking, strong, impressive women.

I fly straight these days...

But I'll keep you in mind for a backup if needed.

:hi:

RL

To all the stern, farm-raised, no-nonsense, ass-kicking, strong, impressive women out there...

:yourock:

They're major hotties!

:evilgrin:

RL

the transformation is now complete!

Good for you, that was a great rant.:rofl:

I was scared to look into a mirror for fear of seeing my mother's face superimposed over my own. :D

All of a sudden there you are and the words are coming out. It's almost an outer body kind of experience. All those things you swore you would never say and it's so uncontrollable, like it wasn't really you saying it.

It's not that I wasn't in control, it's that I wasn't me. It was kind of cool though. :)

And good on your mom, too. :yourock:

Now that it's over I'm pleased with the outcome. When it was happening I wasn't feeling too nice.

than the guy being direspectful of my then 16 y.o. got. I just hope he doesn't treat his gf's that way.

I would be very wary of him.

I'm not sure how he is to his girlfriends normally. What I saw today was manipulative, though. I probably should have a talk with her when she's here without him sometime.

Domestic violence seems to be a way of life around here. A third of my business.

Her best friend was in an abusive relationship, the poor girl was only 17 at the time. Her friend isn't anything like she used to be before that experience. She's lost her bubbly disposition. It's so sad.

I've noticed a few phrases or intonations here or there, of my dad, as well :( Nothing that full-blown yet, but then my daughter is only 2.5! I'm sure the time is coming.

Good for you, though, seriously.

That's how it starts out. A word here and there. My daughter just turned 18 and as I said, the transformation is now complete. :)

And in some ways, I really don't want to become my mother. Luckily, those are things I can generally avoid. She's a great mom in terms of being supportive of anything I wanted to try or take on in my life, but not great in terms of actually being a mom, you know? I'm mothering her, still, LOL. But I know that she will love me no matter what, which is a good feeling!

So far, and my daughter is 18, those less then desireable traits of my mom haven't been trasfered to me, I'm sure my daugher will tell you I have my own private set of annoying traits, however. :)

accident victim. NOT cool would have been telling his mommy on him. By assuming he could pay for his actions you probably actually made him feel like a responsible human being--brava!

I never even considered telling his mom. Honestly, until you just said that the thought hadn't even popped in my head. He's 17 years old not 7. He knew he was behaving like a jerk and got called out on it. He took it very well, too. He was very mature about the entire discussion.

You and yours! :D

Figures, I finally figure this parenting thing out when I'm nearing the end of my tour. :P

Just when you figure something out, it's finished. Not that I know from mothering...:P

Every time I felt I had a job position mastered they'd move me to a new area, too. Either it's fate or I'm a slow learner. :P

I NEED a new job. The one I have I can do in my sleep, so I'm bored. :boring:

...was an ax murdering vigilante.

For my sons, I'm trying like hell to be like my father.

I wish he were here so I could tell him that.