It's a bizarre habit I didn't even know she had.
I graduated from university yesterday. (Queue cheers)
I also moved out my flat to come live with the parents again (Cyoo rather fewer cheers) and despite that I'm still stuck with a huge council tax bill (Kyue groans and wailing).
Anyway, I was negotiating the return of my cleaning deposit, because whilst I've moved out, my flatmate is remaining, so things were a bit complicated. Meanwhile my family was shifting the last of my stuff down seven flights of stairs to the car. So it's me, the new tenant there to sign her lease, my flatmate and our landlord - who I'm fairly sure is Pakistani, but I've never cared enough to actually check.

Having finished moving my possesions, Mum decides to come see how I'm doing on the deposit front. Having my best interests in mind, she naturally storms into the room, and without waiting to see what's actually going on, comes out with these immortal words.

"I want you know this isn't good enough. I don't bloody trust Asian landlords. I'm really annoyed at this, I've probably funded a whole Al Quaeda cell by now."

What.

The.

Fuck?

Apparently my mum's new habit is bigotry. I had no idea. She's never even given the slightest hint of thinking in such bullshit terms before - I want to emphasise this; it was completely out of the blue, it's not like she normally spouts this nonsense round the dinner table while everyone looks away embarrassed; she's fairly liberal and not yet of an age where it used to be normal to talk like that.

And then suddenly she starts blurting it out in the middle of a perfectly civil discussion.

My flatmate was speechless, the new tenant didn't know where to put her face, and my brother had to literally shove her out the door to get her to shut the bloody hell up. Cheers mum, really helping here.

She does have reason to be pissed off at various of my landlords, especially since I got ripped off for the deposit last time I moved, but seriously? Did she forget this is a different guy? Did she forget that bunch were white, ginger, Scottish twats? Did she forget the BLOODY BASIC RULES OF EVEN TENUOUS SOCIAL DECENCY??? Wanting to thump your own mother is a terrible thing, but at that moment I bloody could have.
To make things worse, she spent the journey home trying to defend herself, until it was unequivocally stated by all three of us that she had said quite enough, that she was continuing to embarrass herself, and it would be most appreciated if she would keep her sodding tongue behind her sodding teeth from now on.

Apolgies for tenuity - in fact I sincerely hope this isn't technically relevant, as I can foresee problems if it does become a habit of hers. I'm still very, very angry about it the next morning and I need to vent.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:50, Reply)