On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:13:10 -0800, kalanamak wrote:

>Pan Ohco wrote:
>
>> I think that this woman has a control problem. My EX wife had a
>> similar problem.
>
>The German's have a saying: "Whose bread you eat, his song you sing". In
>our family, my long-labouring mother called the shots on when we ate. If
> we had a school play, she'd adjust, but we ate dinner, weekend, 1 pm
>sharp, and weekdays 6 pm sharp. Anyone who grinds through 6 kids on a
>low income, a wringer washer, and everything from scratch, working from
>before 7 am to after 8 pm day after day, year after year, deserves
>special consideration. Now, nearly 90 and cleaning up after and cooking
>for my even older father, she pokes her chin out and nods everytime he
>brags about how much she's saving him (in would-be nursing home bills).
>blacksalt
>who made her pecan pie for thanksgiving, made gravy the way she taught
>me, and "set" the cranberry relish in the antique bowl she used to use.

So if your father had asked her to adjust till 8 P.M. thanksgiving
day, for his play (hunting), she wouldn't have done it?

He who pays the piper picks the tune.