With Mothering Sunday just past in England it occured to me, why do we express affections for others through cheap cards with crappy messages in them?
Can a card really show a person how much you care? Yet it is seen as the norm. I didn't get my mother a card, I was her only child who didn't. I've told her lots of times I don't buy cards and that they will never come close to expressing how I feel. Yet she still gets indignant when she doesn't get one off me. It seems silly.
Or maybe i'm just too cheap to buy a card.
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Regardless of how YOU feel, it's the least you can do. Don't you want to do the least you can? Don't you?
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Did you do anything?
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Samira wrote:
Did you do anything?
That's the key. My mother is not so big on cards, but the woman does love a free breakfast with her son.
I gave her a hug and told her I loved her. Surely that means more than a card.
On the one hand, yes, of course it does; and on the other hand, Bob, what a cheapskate.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
as a mom myself, Id rather not get a card. I would rather something special from my son and not necessarily material unless it was something he made on his own. something special done with us together.
If you did something *other* than a card, then fine. But if youre bit[Blue][/Blue]ching about the card thing without having done anything else to show your love, then you have no leg to stand on.
If you did something *other* than a card, then fine. But if youre bit[Blue][/Blue]ching about the card thing without having done anything else to show your love, then you have no leg to stand on.
what? You dont hug your mom everyday? You're just lazy and cheap. I'd be bummed if I had a son like you too. By the way, did you get the labor talk? You deserved it
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what? You dont hug your mom everyday? You're just lazy and cheap. I'd be bummed if I had a son like you too. By the way, did you get the labor talk? You deserved it
I don't hug my mom every day.
I don't think that there is anything on this earthly plane I can do to show how much my mother means to me. To me I see a card as insulting.
Cooking her breakfast would be a fair start.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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You dont hug your mom everyday?
I'm British, so no.
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Cooking her breakfast would be a fair start.
I'm not up in the AM on Sundays. It's a holy day of rest.
TheDave wrote:
I don't think that there is anything on this earthly plane I can do to show how much my mother means to me. To me I see a card as insulting.
but you showed her no way of how much she means to you by doing nothing extra on a day to celebrate and thank what shes done for you. A card may be insulting, but its less insulting than if you wereto do nothing at all out of the ordinary.
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I'm not up in the AM on Sundays. It's a holy day of rest.
Make an effort, you lazy git. No wonder your mother was disappointed.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Enough of berating how much of a lazy son I am, lets get back on point.
Why do we find in necessary to express feelings in cards?
Edited, Tue Mar 28 13:59:56 2006 by TheDave
Why do we find in necessary to express feelings in cards?
Edited, Tue Mar 28 13:59:56 2006 by TheDave
We don't. Cards are an option, a commercially generated acknowledgement.
They're still better than nothing, if not by much.
They're still better than nothing, if not by much.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Hallmark employs many mothers. You refusing to get with the card giving program takes food right off their tables.
So the real question we all keep coming back to is: Why do you hate mothers?
So the real question we all keep coming back to is: Why do you hate mothers?
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So the real question we all keep coming back to is: Why do you hate mothers?
She never took me to Disneyland.
/sniff
TheDave wrote:
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So the real question we all keep coming back to is: Why do you hate mothers?
She never took me to Disneyland.
/sniff
Maybe if you had hugged her...
I take it this mom hugging thing only applies if you see the ***** woman occasionally right?
that should go without saying. benifit of the doubt you are using your brain and all that
Lady DSD wrote:
benifit of the doubt you are using your brain and all that
Edit: With the red name and that avatar, at first glance I keep thinking you're Twiz.
Edited, Tue Mar 28 16:57:54 2006 by Elderon
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