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[Guest guest]

How's that for a subject?

Well tonight I finally got mad. My nada has been here for two weeks,

one more week to go. I have put up with my share of crazy. Let's see,

where to begin. Ah yes. The first day I saw her, she put her hand on

my butt. " You look good! " Yes, very appropriate. Then there's the

endless push and pull... she wants to spend every minute with me and I

have to actually, you know, work for a living. There was the day we

went shopping so that she could buy stupid presents for people back

home. Of course, that involved asking store owners for discounts and

then complaining the the discount offered wasn't enough. There were

several near car accidents because she was too busy looking at the

sights to pay attention to the road. There were obnoxious comments

directed at my husband. Inappropriate comments made to friends. And

the usual " lookit me! " behavior.

I've been patient, I really have. Then tonight, she calls me on a

cellphone a friend lent her (because she was too cheap to bring her

non-US cellphone with her and enable it to work in the US).

Apparently, she went shopping at a department store today and thought

it would be perfectly OK to give them *my* address so that she could

sign up for the department store credit card and get a discount. Then

she said that I should open the statement for her when it arrives and

make sure that the payment she made on it today went through. I calmly

explained that I didn't appreciate this because I need to be consulted

first before my address is given out. Not only that, it's not just my

address, but my husband's and half-brother's too. And this is not the

first time she's done this. I explained that she did this before, with

her bank account. (Not to mention that I'm not her secretary and am

not interested in examining her bills.)

Naturally, she said that she " hears " me, and that next time she'll

check again before using my address. And anyway, the bank thing was

" so long ago " (actually, only several months ago) that she doesn't

remember what happened. What check *again*? There's no again here. She

never asked my permission in the first place! And I reminded her that

I called her when the bank statements started arriving, because my

husband, half-brother, and I were all confused about the sudden

appearance of her mail. So obviously, it happened.

It was amazing, she behaved just like the books say. She pretended not

to remember about not having consulted me in the first place about the

bank statements, she got defensive about my criticism, and finally

started shouting at me on the phone.

Nada: " <icy voice>Qwerty</icy voice>, how many times do I have to say

that I hear you?! "

qwerty: " You didn't hear me. You said you'll check again. You didn't

check in the first place. You didn't ask my permission either time. "

Nada: " <chilling voice>Qwerty</chilling voice>, <shouting>enaff eez

enaff!</shouting> "

qwerty: " Goodbye. " click.

We spent $90 mailing that nutcase her stupid accumulated bank

statements by FedEx to the country where she resides. Next time I'll

send it to her and make *her* pay the bill. I'm hoping she'll get

tired of spending the money on receiving her statements and make

alternate arrangements. And I'm trying to figure out what to do about

this new department store credit card thing. Send it to her unopened

with her bank statements and have her pay for the shipping?

Anyway, just wanted to vent. She made me so frustrated and angry. I

think I spent 15 minutes venting to my husband. Our poor dog was

concerned that I was mad at her, but I petted her and spoke kindly to

her so she'd know that she'd done nothing wrong. But ARGH! It's so

very aggravating! I spent the past 3 weeks (2 weeks while nada was

here, and one week prior) worrying about the inevitable blowout, and

here it is! And it's annoying as all hell! And I'm sure there will be

more.

Thanks for listening.

qwerty