The older I get, the more simular all this sounds! I 'm starting to think all parents repeatedly tell you stories about everything, like you don't remember last month! Lol, but country parents are even worse! It may be the whole mind melding thing after being married for so long, hahaha 😆
My kids have started saying “so where is this going” before I start relating too many details, lol. That’s when I realize “oh. Maybe they don’t need to know this after all...”
My Mom was from Southside Virginia, on the boundary of Tidewater and the Piedmont--far from Appalachia. And this was how she would tell you that someone had died. Only there would generally be more steps to the conversation than your account indicates. :)
The older I get, the more simular all this sounds! I 'm starting to think all parents repeatedly tell you stories about everything, like you don't remember last month! Lol, but country parents are even worse! It may be the whole mind melding thing after being married for so long, hahaha 😆
You are describing my mother in law (border of north GA and south eastern TN) exactly!!!
Lololol. My kids say this is me now. And we have been Kansans all our lives...
Maybe it's more widespread than I realized!
And by the way, thank you for reading my posts and for your kind encouragement!
My kids have started saying “so where is this going” before I start relating too many details, lol. That’s when I realize “oh. Maybe they don’t need to know this after all...”
My Mom was from Southside Virginia, on the boundary of Tidewater and the Piedmont--far from Appalachia. And this was how she would tell you that someone had died. Only there would generally be more steps to the conversation than your account indicates. :)
I live in Texas and it's the same process when I visit my parents.
"do you remember so and so?"
"Vaguely, why?"
"Oh, no reason."
"Mom, you brought him up."
"Oh, it's just that he died last week."
"Mmmmm." What else can you say?