Me mam, with me dad the Catalyst.
...me mum's quite normal compared to some of the things I've read on here so far. She's protective of her family, a good organizer and a good teacher to boot (teaching assistant to be exact, but she's done it for years before she was officially paid for it). She regularly babysits me daughter for me and has taught her basic counting and reading skills and a few welsh songs (which freaked the wife out no end as our 2 year old started talking welsh to us).

What I tend to find is she goes a bit mental only when me dad's involved. She's the quite normal sense of humour person, while my dad tries to find any way he can to embarrass or have a laugh with her. A few examples;

Every time he sticks channel Dave on she goes into a fit. He's seen every episode of "Top Gear", and the meer mention of Dave sends her into tsunami style fits.

Temporary alarm clock; me dad installed a metal dinner tray and wooden spoon into the aerospace immediately beside my sleeping mother's ear one morning, the alarm clock gloriously kicking in with me dad shouting "WAKEY WAKEY!" while banging the fucker into oblivion. She was livid for a week after that. (was a qotw answer a few weeks back if I recall).

Mum and dad, walking down the road towards the school where she works. Me mum spots a school bus full of kids and teachers heading towards them. Mum says "Don't do anything stupid now, there's a load of kids from the school driving past...."
Worst thing she could have said. He grabs her hand, starts to pretend to be a gorilla and as the bus goes parallel with them all the kids look down to see me dad stooped low while looking up at them, pulling the biggest mong face he could muster while waving to the bus with his free hand. It took weeks for her to live that one down.

Still, she puts up with stuff like this and dropped me from her strawberry chuff so she's gotta have a sense of humour, or quite simply she'd go nuts. And thankfully she has. Also, any decent books that come out she buys, reads within 48 hours and chucks them in my direction (mixture of Clive Cussler, Terry Pratchett and Matthew Reilley at present). Cheers mum :)
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Thu 11 Feb 2010, 17:51, Reply)