Back in PA

May. 26th, 2006 11:39 pm
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Drove through some hellacious storms to get here but I'm none the worse for wear. Need to drag out and get some pictures of the irises that took over the world...

Dad's already winning the obnoxious brat award. I asked him some time tomorrow to please take the license plate off my car because I can't and put on the new ones. He immediately goes to do it (that gives him bitching rights for me making him work at night) and comes back in 'who put this plate on?'
Me - Honda garage in Orange City
Dad - a HONDA garage put it on with a sheetmetal screw? The entire socket is stripped
Me - Dad, where would I get a sheetmetal screw? YES Honda did it.
Dad - Where did they get a sheetmetal screw? (disappears back into the garage)

Dad (coming back) well it's off. How did that sheetmetal screw really get used on that plate?
Me - want to call [livejournal.com profile] evil_little_dog and ask her? HONDA did it. I couldn't get the rusted screws from WI off so I took it to the dealership. They CUT the original screws off and sent me out of there with ONE screw which made the plate swing. I went back and told them to fix it. I knew right away it was the wrong screw but the damage was already done.
Dad - where's the front plateholder
Me - well it's been in the trunk of the car for 6 years now (thinking that's where I last seen it but I bet it's not there now)
Dad - I put it with its screws, where is it
Me - Dad, the Honda dealership in FL took that off not you
Dad - I DID it
Me - it was sitting on the Harvest table in ELD's house for 3 years dad.
Dad - Don't tell me what I didn't do
Me - Fine, you took it off, whatever, I ate the screws and replaced them with sheetmetal ones since I have a stash.

Later we have the SAME conversation we had (nearly word for word) at Christmas and Easter, the one where he raves like a lunatic about the slutty tank tops of the CSI women and how professional women wouldn't wear that. Somehow he thinks I disagree (I don't). I suffer through this rerun with him until he starts the SAME coversation we just had about this again during Numb3rs which neither mom nor I have seen because the lady FBI agent there actually DOES almost dress professionally. We both tell him to hold it until commerical since this was new to us. He picks up his snack and storms off to the computer room. OMG. This behaviour isn't acceptable when you're 5. It's definately not when you're 60+ and I've only been home 3 hours by this time.

argh doesn't begin to cover it.

Date: 2006-05-27 04:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mjules.livejournal.com
*pets*

Oh, God.

I remember those days, I remember them well. Thank God they're not extremely recent memories.

Your dad + my dad in the same room would make the universe explode from frustration. And that's WITH my dad having most of his anger under control. He's still... difficult to live with.

Date: 2006-05-27 04:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cornerofmadness.livejournal.com
and let's not factor in MY anger management issues (which have gotten better but as ELD will attest are NOT all that great)

Date: 2006-05-27 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mjules.livejournal.com
*laughs* My anger barely exists... unless someone is pushing my buttons. My Dad seems to know instinctively where all mine are. Him and a guy at work. *shudders*

Date: 2006-05-27 04:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cornerofmadness.livejournal.com
you're more like ELD then. Me, let's just say there were good reasons when i was younger that I chose to refrain from relationships and having kids

Date: 2006-05-27 04:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mjules.livejournal.com
*nods* ELD and I have talked about our methods of anger management. *G*

Date: 2006-05-27 05:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] purple-smurf.livejournal.com
Oh, God, family. You have my sympathy. They're great to visit -- for an hour. Less. Ugh. You have my sympathy.

Date: 2006-05-27 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cornerofmadness.livejournal.com
thank you vrey much. I dont' know why a week is bothering me so. It's not like i'm not stuck here a month over Christmas

Date: 2006-05-28 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] evil-little-dog.livejournal.com
Oh, my. So, you'll be there for a weeeeeek? Ummm. How much booze is available?

Date: 2006-05-28 02:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cornerofmadness.livejournal.com
mom, SIL and I drank mango/guava/vodka slushies all night

Date: 2006-05-28 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] evil-little-dog.livejournal.com
Don't go driving. *points at icon*

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