So I just got into a huge argument with my mother about something really lame and stupid.
Normally when she gets angry with me about something really lame and stupid, I just sit there and let her yell at me and play games and completely ignore her. This usually works and draws a response from her later on of "Im sorry blah blah blah blah"
So it goes. (Kurt Vonnegut reference sorry)
But today I thought hey, I've tried the same strategy for my entire life. Why not go for another strategy?
Now, understnad that my mother approves of my going into engineering, but she hates how I look at the world from a mathematical/scientific perspective. She just hates it.
After about five minutes of her blabbing on about how wonderful she is and how much of a jerk I am, I started being very flippant. (I actually wasnt just ACTING calm, I WAS/AM very calm as this is such a common occurance that arguments are like eating soup for me.)
She said
"you know Im not looking forwad to spending time with you in waterloo, christ"
and I said "well, I'm not exactly looking forward to you yelling at me there either, you know"
to which she responded something along the lines of Im the one who 'makes' her yell at me
So then I started talking about how I deal with her yelling at me and purposefully made a reference to her as an experiment. I said "Well, I've tried a number of times to just sit here and let you yell at me. But that hasn't been producing desirable results. And, after all, a man has to defend himself from time to time. So this time I'm trying arguing back to see if it produces better results."
This sounded very reasonable to me.
But something odd happened this time she said "you know what, F*CK YOU and your LOGIC" and started crying and ran off upstairs.
Now, I must admit that it did bring a faster conclusion to the whole argument process. I'm just sitting here on my comp waiting to see if she comes down to apologize or if the impossibility of a mother never forgiving her son actually happens.
Normally when she gets angry with me about something really lame and stupid, I just sit there and let her yell at me and play games and completely ignore her. This usually works and draws a response from her later on of "Im sorry blah blah blah blah"
So it goes. (Kurt Vonnegut reference sorry)
But today I thought hey, I've tried the same strategy for my entire life. Why not go for another strategy?
Now, understnad that my mother approves of my going into engineering, but she hates how I look at the world from a mathematical/scientific perspective. She just hates it.
After about five minutes of her blabbing on about how wonderful she is and how much of a jerk I am, I started being very flippant. (I actually wasnt just ACTING calm, I WAS/AM very calm as this is such a common occurance that arguments are like eating soup for me.)
She said
"you know Im not looking forwad to spending time with you in waterloo, christ"
and I said "well, I'm not exactly looking forward to you yelling at me there either, you know"
to which she responded something along the lines of Im the one who 'makes' her yell at me
So then I started talking about how I deal with her yelling at me and purposefully made a reference to her as an experiment. I said "Well, I've tried a number of times to just sit here and let you yell at me. But that hasn't been producing desirable results. And, after all, a man has to defend himself from time to time. So this time I'm trying arguing back to see if it produces better results."
This sounded very reasonable to me.
But something odd happened this time she said "you know what, F*CK YOU and your LOGIC" and started crying and ran off upstairs.
Now, I must admit that it did bring a faster conclusion to the whole argument process. I'm just sitting here on my comp waiting to see if she comes down to apologize or if the impossibility of a mother never forgiving her son actually happens.
It's usually messed up.
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