Mom is plucking my last good nerve!

I had a bad day with mom. One of those days where I wish matricide was legal.
She thinks I always have to be right. I don’t. I’m actually the least competitive person you will ever meet.

We have a lawn swing similar to this one, actually we have 2; one at either end of the pool. Mom tightened the bolts so that the canopy was flat across the top and not tilted. I said that was a bad idea because people like to move the canopy so the sun won’t be in their eyes and because of the strong winds which we get all the time here. This was like 3 weeks ago.

Sunday night we had a major thunder and lightning storm with HIGH WINDS and monsoon like rain. You guessed it! One lawn swing was blown into the deep end of the pool. Basically the lawn swing canopy acted like Mary Poppins umbrella and went airborne.

I know what y’all are thinking, “So what, let her get it out of the pool.” She's 79 and has bad arthritis in her hands, knees, and hips! The last thing I needed was for her to try and do it herself and fall in the pool or worse. FWIW: I couldn’t do it by myself and right now I’m the strongest person in the house. I know because I tried before I went to the dentist on Monday afternoon. That's right in addition to having chipped a tooth and needing extra novocaine which left my mouth sore until 9 PM. I come home and have to deal with a willful and bratty senior citizen.

You have no idea how hard it was for mom and I to get that damned thing out of the pool! Dad was of course in drill sargeant mode, so he directed and mom ignored his directions and mine until I snapped and started yelling at her.

It was a 2 person job no matter how you slice it.

She won't just do what I tell her to do. It just pissed me off because I told her not to do it and she did; and it caused major aggravation and stress for all of us. She’s lucky it didn’t scratch or tear a hole in the liner.

I swear to God all summer we have been hemorraghing money.

This is like the 4th time in six months that I have asked and/or told her to do something and she has flat out ignored me. She was lucky this time. The last two times she ignored me, when she finally realized there was a problem it cost her thousands of dollars to correct.