Wish me luck

[Calamity Jane]

rant

I have to be nice today, to someone I'd really rather not see. My husband's cousin is in town, and we're meeting her for lunch. I have to wear make-up, do my hair, get the kids dressed, and drive an hour to meet them... I'm sure I'll end up picking up the tab too.

This woman was one of the few people in my husband's family who attended our wedding. She spent the three days before the wedding trying to convince him to back out... at one point, she told him she didn't think she could live with the fact that he was marrying someone 'so far beneath him'... after the wedding, she told him that it still wasn't too late, all he had to do is not file the license at the courthouse and we wouldn't be legally married, so he could still leave anytime he wanted. She was/is convinced that I'm far too white trash to ever be worth anything except to produce more white trash children...

It's going to be so much fun to sit there and chat with her and pretend that I've missed her over the past 7 years!

If I make it through lunch without wanting to put a bullet in someone, it'll be a miracle.

/rant

 

[Wiggles]

Well good luck to you.

Maybe you can just think of it as a way to show your children how people with class act around someone they despise.



Or, you could 'accidentally' spill a gigantic glass of iced tea on her lap....

 

[Guest]

Don't hand over your power to this woman. You don't have to kiss her ass. Be you. And channel positive energy.
Good luck, hon.

 

[Cipher]

Pagan,
Sorry to hear u have to deal with such an ignorant woman. I do wish u luck however with the "ordeal". If you don't like eachother, why is this lunch even taking place?? I mean lunch after 7 years of not seeing her..why now?? Were u forced to go??
In any case..i'll stop back later to see how it went, and once again, Good Luck

~*~Cipher~*~

 

[Calamity Jane]

eachother, why is this lunch even taking place?? I mean lunch after 7 years of not seeing her..why now?? Were u forced to go??

Because she happens to be in town for the first time in years. My husband adores her and insists that we do the lunch thing. I have to attend so that the kids will be there.

It'll be so much FUN!!!!


Thanks for the well wishes, folks. I'll let you know if we all survive it.

 

[RawHumor]

Ahhhh... family

Isn't it lovely to have such hateful people in your family?

You should surprise her with a gift, but tell her not to open it until she gets home... and SURPRISE - here's a vibrator to loosen up your dried up old c... okay, that's just not nice of me.

 

[Cipher]

Re: Ahhhh... family

Isn't it lovely to have such hateful people in your family?

You should surprise her with a gift, but tell her not to open it until she gets home... and SURPRISE - here's a vibrator to loosen up your dried up old c... okay, that's just not nice of me.

LMFAO!!!!! Damn...LoL
I needed that laugh..Woooo..LoL

~*~Cipher~*~

 

[Cipher]

Because she happens to be in town for the first time in years. My husband adores her and insists that we do the lunch thing. I have to attend so that the kids will be there.

It'll be so much FUN!!!!


Thanks for the well wishes, folks. I'll let you know if we all survive it.

Oh i see..Crappy deal tho...But i guess on a brighter note..Ur doing it for ur hubby
The lunch will probley be quick..seeing as the 2 of you don't like eachother...and i'm sure few words will be spoken..LoL Which is a good thing..Sounds like she's a monster I'll b wishing good thoughts for you girly girl

~*~Cipher~*~

 

[Rubyfruit]

Good luck, Girlie. That does not sound like my idea of a good-time afternoon.

Make sure your husband knows that you're a saint for doing this.




edited because I shouldn't post before I've had all my coffee

 

[InnocentAngel81]

good luck on not trying to choke her over dinner

 

[Problem Child]

Take paganangel with you. He'll take care of her.

 

[alvin462]

Your a better pearson than me . If I would go at all I think I would be arrested as she would get a big piece of my mind . I don't think I could even go . Good luck

 

[patient1]

Just be charmimg

"Ma'am "is code for bitch

"That's nice" is code for bullshit

 

[cymbidia]

Hey pcg?

I had 21 years of a mother-in-law who **always** viewed me as the trash who actually lived with her precious son BEFORE marriage. (Doesn't matter that he lived with me, too - i was the godless one who did the dirty out-of-wedlock thing.)

I had 21 years of learning to smile and be polite to someone who let everyone in the family know that i wasn't ever going to be good enough for her only, her wonderful, her do-no-wrong son.

This is what i did:
1. I smiled.
2. I gave her a small gift every time i saw her (which wasn't all that often thank all the gods since, after 8 or so years of yearly visits, i categorically refused to go to her home in Nebraska or have her come to visit us more often than once every two years).
3. I never ever failed to be polite and kind to her - even when she was being snotty and mean to me. (Well, we did have one screaming fight but that was long long ago... and she really deserved it, too).

Then, when it was all over and she was gone from my life again, i RAGED to everyone i knew about her.

Sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet and do the right thing, pcg. You're an intelligent, witty, amusing, honest, real woman. Who really gives a flying fuck about her, especially if she's only there every seven years or so.

Be polite but reserved.
Smile.
Take frequent sips of water.
If she says anything at all even the slightest bit nasty, smile again and comment on the room decor or the quality of the salad ingredients or tell a little story about one of the kids.

Don't let her under your skin. She wins if you allow that.

Maintain your control, as raindancer so gently reminded you.

Breathe in.
Breathe out.

It's just a lunch.

 

[Dillinger]

I know the feeling. You'll do fine. Just remember, this too shall pass...

 

[sexy-girl]

good luck ... just say to yourself you are a better person then her because you are putting yourself out to keep your husband happy ... she obviously doesn't care about your husbands happiness



i've had the opposite my gf's father said im too good for her lol ... he was joking though

 

[Cheyenne]

Just keep talking about the wonderful life you have married to her cousin. And lots and lots of kid stories! Your kids are the most wonderful kids that walk the earth. Today, anyway. Tell her all about them over and over and over, as many stories as you can think of.

 

[nasty]

Beans...LOTS of beans. That out to clear her out of the room. And, that "Beneath him" thing. Just tell her, "Well, at least I'm beneath SOMEONE!!!!!!!! And, sometimes on top. How bout you?" That oughta shut her up.

 

[glamorilla]

Lull her into a false sense of security,get some dirt and then slam the bitch when she least expects it.

(or what they said )

 

[Calamity Jane]

Just be charmimg

"Ma'am "is code for bitch

"That's nice" is code for bullshit

I always thought "That's nice" was code for fuck you.

 

[Shaq]

I smell grits cooking...

in the kitchen....Good luck!!!

 

[paganangel]

pcg,
show up in over-alls and barefoot. put the kids in straw hats. black out one tooth and smoke a big fat cigar. when the waitress asks you to put it out tell her to kiss yer ass without even removing the stogie from your lip.

pc....i'm honored.













but i really can't be left alone with pcg.

 

[Calamity Jane]

I'm so nice, I scare myself.

Lunch is over, I'm home and I don't even feel a migraine starting yet.

but i really can't be left alone with pcg.

PA, is that a threat?

And I didn't even go all hillbilly'd up. I even knocked the shit off my boots.

 

[MissTaken]

Good for you, PCG!


They didn't serve humble pie for dessert, did they?

 

[CarolineOh]

I'm so nice, I scare myself.

Lunch is over, I'm home and I don't even feel a migraine starting yet.




PA, is that a threat?

And I didn't even go all hillbilly'd up. I even knocked the shit off my boots.

It sounds like things went as well as could be expected. I know how it feels dealing with people like that. My ex-mother in law liked to refer to me as "the little Polack".