Psycho Momma

So, coughing and hacking, I did the drive down to mother's and took her shopping for the day.
It seems that this lung condition is not spreadable, so I filed this in the back of my mind to work on.

Mom is of course, a few bricks short of a full load.
And she was in roaring form Wednesday!

She started off with lecturing me about all of the real and imagined goings on in her trailer park!
As Swede commented, it would be so much easier if we had not found out so much of her imagination did not turn out to be real over the past year!
Gees!
Of course, then we had to run into a guy she has had a restraining order against for the past 10 years and arrested numerous times!  I just naively stood between them and he just judged me based on my height and build, like everyone does - shut his mouth and moved along!
Really, I am a pussy cat.
I like to purrrrrr.

Then at lunch she launched into a "why did you_____?" line of attack, recalling all of this stuff from when I was in high school and demanding explanations.
Thank heavens for amnesia, I would have been forced to betray trusts were I to have answered!
And I will not lie.
I will not be my father!
I will not live as my father did!

After lunch came the predictable tirade about how people are damaging her trailer.
In this case, painting black strips on her roof!
It is mold, but you can't tell her anything ....

I side swiped her tantrum by buying her some tea and rhubarb tes!
It was great and made her happy.
I ran her home, unloaded the car and headed home in a blinding rainstorm.
She really needs to get her act together, but that is in the realm of miracle here.

As for me, it is now late at night and tea is no longer keeping me awake ...