This comic depicts a teenage girl, yet don't be fooled into thinking that only girls say such hurtful things to their mothers. Growing up no one in my family ever talked back to my parents to their face, but today's generation seems much ruder. Just today, when I sternly told my youngest to quit pushing his brother, he responded with the universal sign for blah, blah, blah... The talking hand puppet with disrespectful smirk. Needless to say, this sweetheart was sent to his room where he stayed until he was ready to give a sincere apology and then we hugged it out.
His older brother, however sometimes shares this punk ass bitch's sentiment and has told me on numerous occasions that he does,in fact, know better. I've tried to tell him that with 500 gazillion college credits and 35 years of life experience, that I've been around the block a time or two and might have learned something, but that seems incomprehensible to him. Like when I told him to put his cheap plastic water bottle in the little pocket outside his book bag designed for that purpose instead of inside. Inside, where the 20lbs of books he can't be bothered to put in his desk at school will eventually crush the bottle, thus causing a mass flood like that of which not even Noah has experienced.
But did he listen? No, of course not and so when the entire inside of his bag got soaked for the second time in a month, who do you think spent nearly an hour drying each page by hand with a hairdryer, once again, in an effort to help his smart ass? That's right, this is the type of shit moms everywhere have to deal with all the time while remaining calm and collected so as not to psychologically scar our kids for life and we still get blamed for everything. So don't just do nice things for your mother on Mother's Day, show her that you care throughout the year unconditionally because you know there's nothing she wouldn't do for you.
These two gentlemen may be extreme examples of thoughtfulness, as their ideas are often twisted and warped, but at least they care enough to go for the home run. Watch, learn, and adapt to a more suitable expression of gratitude.
Saturday Night Live - Digital Short: Motherlover *Uncensored - Video - NBC.com
