Annoying habit

**pomtzu** · 03-18-2010, 08:10 AM

Interesting comments. Thanks all for your input.

I guess my views are because of my old fashioned New England/Italian upbringing. Acknowledging a person when they speak to you, was always as important as a please or thank you. With this fast paced world, these most basic responses, seem to be left behind all too often.

Not expecting (or wanting) a response to every sentence, but a simple acknowledgment at the end is all that's needed.

With my DIL - maybe it's just a carryover from her life when she was growing up. She despised her stepmother (still does), and ignored her whenever possible, from what she has told me. I have also brought up her lack of response to me in a lighthearted manner, but it still continues, so I suppose I might just as well get used to it.

The "Mom" thing is really no big deal - I just threw that in to see what others did. I was closer to my best friend's mother, than I was to my own, and I called her Mom E. till the day she passed away at 95.

**wombat2u2004** · 03-18-2010, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by pomtzu

I guess my views are because of my old fashioned New England/Italian upbringing.

Common courtesy isn't old fashioned, it's swept under the carpet by those who don't remember the importance of it.

**pomtzu** · 03-18-2010, 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by wombat2u2004

Common courtesy isn't old fashioned, it's swept under the carpet by those who don't remember the importance of it.

Or maybe were never taught.

Amen!!

**RICHARD** · 03-18-2010, 01:09 PM

I would love to see how long she would last if you did the same thing to her?

Just work around her. (I bet you would hear about it in no time.

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**pomtzu** · 03-18-2010, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by RICHARD

I would love to see how long she would last if you did the same thing to her?

Just work around her. (I bet you would hear about it in no time.

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I just can't be that way - it's just not the way I am...........

Hey - she makes my son happy - so that's what counts when all is said and done. Afterall - she married him - not me. I just came along with the deal as an accessory at no charge!

**wombat2u2004** · 03-18-2010, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by pomtzu

I just can't be that way - it's just not the way I am...........

Hey - she makes my son happy - so that's what counts when all is said and done. Afterall - she married him - not me. I just came along with the deal as an accessory at no charge!

You could learn to speak like Donald Duck. That'd really get on her nerves...