Granny_Nooooo t1_itpcr7c wrote on October 25, 2022 at 9:59 AM

Reply to comment by LevelPerception4 in TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down by newshoeshudis

You should have asked her if she was on her period. That always works.

LevelPerception4 t1_itpfmeh wrote on October 25, 2022 at 10:37 AM

Omg. She was just waiting for me to back talk her. My mother was very passive aggressive. She turned off my alarm and woke me up 15 minutes late by telling me she’d made me pancakes. I never ate breakfast. So I’m bolting down the food as fast as I can without actually gagging, I’ve got 25 minutes to shower, get dressed and make it to the bus stop…and she sits down across from me with her cup of tea, fixes me with a cold stare, and says, “So. When are you going to clean your room?”

I’ve never been a morning person. My mother had to wake me up for preschool. And nobody can push your buttons like the person who installed them!