I am currently waiting to see my hematologist, who practices out of an oncology center. A woman is sitting in the waiting room with me and her phone rings. She answers and listens for a minute and says, “Eat a bowl of cereal with a banana like you do every day. I can’t believe you called me to ask me what to have for breakfast. You are 68 years old and it is time for you to grow up.” And then she hung up.
I fistbumped her. Rock on, waiting room lady.
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Sometimes I call my mom to ask what I should have for dinner. It’s just an excuse to call and chat.
Hopefully it wasn’t their dement Grampa / Grandma
Wonder if the person on the other end was her husband. My father calls my mom with inane questions like this frequently, usually anytime she’s away from him. It’s so obvious what he’s doing but she keeps indulging him.
Made me think of this (I am a nerd)
Whenever I see stuff like this, I just wonder if straight women are okay. This sounds exhausting
My mom used to pull this shit on me all the time. As the oldest daughter, I was the only “parent” at home, which made it so that my mom relied on me for decision making. One time while waiting for a job interview I got a call while she was out for brunch with her friends “What do I order?”
I almost screamed.
Fuckin’ eh.
My mom finally developed a backbone?
Seriously though good for her
guys like that need to be forced to live on their own for a few months: if I don’t make my own sandwich (or order one, which gets too expensive fast) I’d starve
Unfortunately she actually gave him an answer. Should’ve left out the first sentence too!
I hope that I am making my children better people because I make them order food at restaurants.
It sounds like anxiety, which can make people do weird things. A friend of ours showed up for a day of baking with completely unrelated contributions from her kitchen — a bag of raisins, a couple bags of whole grains, one of which had been turned into empty husks by weevils. No one had asked her to clean out her cupboards into our kitchen, but there we were. I can totally picture her calling a friend to ask what she should have for breakfast.
And you just know that he didn’t bother to ask how she was feeling
When I was 25 (husband was 31) and our son was a toddler, I joined some friends to sell things at a flea market down the road and left husband and child at home.
Around 1 in the afternoon, husband and child show up, husband asking “what’s for lunch?” He’d had to pass a grocery store and a Burger King to reach me.
He’s an ex now.
Off the main topic, but my former hematologist works out of the cancer centre. I loved her, but I had to switch to a different one because the powers that be decided that she couldn’t see non-cancer patients anymore. I dont get the same level of care now 🙁
The thing that pisses me off most about this is that she’s clearly in a doctors office. Maybe fighting cancer? WTF is wrong with that man baby on the other end of the phone? Ugh. Her response was a good one!
Suddenly my dad seems super capable
I’m so relieved she told him off. I knew a woman who left a social event early because her teenaged sons called her saying they were hungry and when we asked why, she explained as if it should have been obvious to the rest of us that they don’t know how to use the microwave or put food together themselves. When the eldest went to college, the family moved with the kid so that he wouldn’t be living on his own.
Ok, gotta give the dude benefit of a doubt. I sometimes get a “…you ate what for dinner?? Why not eat this or that….”
I have a coworker who is currently in treatment for cancer. While she was at chemo her husband called to know when she would be done because it was his lunch time and he was getting hungry.
They are in their late 70s and that man can’t figure out how to make food for himself. She went right home after she was done to make him something to eat.
My BIL (53) does shit like this with my sister (49) all the time. He asks her to do something for him and goes “But you do it better!” when she says to do it himself. Follows her around like a puppy when she’s home but then bitches about what a pain in the ass she is. I’d go nuts with a husband like that. Mine has his flaws, but can cook, clean, do laundry, and keep himself alive without my help because his parents raised him correctly. When I tell my mom I can do something for/with her and not include my son, she asks, “Who’s gonna watch the baby?” Uhhhh, his father? She’s a 73 year old boomer so unfortunately the men of her generation did fuck all when it came to child care.