My mom invited our extended family from all over the country into our tiny shitty apartment for a Christmas feast, only instead of cooking, she wanted to surprise everyone with nearly $300 worth of Chinese food from her favorite local place. She hadn't even told me that this was the plan, so when our guests asked when we were planning to start cooking, I shrugged and told them their guess was as good as mine.She fell asleep on the couch sometime around noon. We all sat around in awkward silence, making trivial conversation, watching TV, and waiting for her to wake up, which she did not do until 6 PM. When she finally arose, she tried calling the restaurant in a frenzy only to find out that they closed sometime around 3 PM. She called at least 10 more times, threw a huge tantrum, left quite a few angry voicemails about how they shouldn't be closing early today because "Chinese people don't even celebrate Christmas anyway," and is now pouting like a child, refusing to utter more than a few words at a time.We looked up other nearby places that were open on Christmas. She refused to pay for anything other than the Chinese food she wanted. My aunt offered to pay for pizza, and in response my mother exploded into tears because if we weren't going to have Chinese then there was no point.I made scrambled eggs for everyone. They went home shortly after. There was no exchanging of gifts. My mother insisted her guests bring nothing, as the food was intended to be the gift. How was your Christmas, anons?
>>83485485Why would she fall asleep with guests in the house and impose her share of the burden of entertaining them onto you? This is poor behavior on the part of the host.
>>83485485I know someone with a mom that would do exactly this. Is she a drunk too?
We used to set up something like smash bros for everyone to play, no one is interested in that sort of thing anymore. Furthermore half the people have married and have their own families now so they spend it else ware on the day but visit before. The last real celebration was before covid and there was some perceived minor offense so we went off after that. The 2nd year I was oh so we are just not doing that anymore. Main thing to take away is when you are celebrating is to remember that this could be the last time you do in that way.This year was just a small gathering at home, pretty good.
>>83485637I don't know. She always stays up through the night and is always tired during the day as a result. I try telling her to put the phone down and go to sleep but she becomes so difficult to put up with I just let her do whatever. >>83485673Nope, just very fat.
