I gave in after all these years of travelling out to New York where I have some great friends and memories I said I would take my mum as she has never been. Never again! I forgot how difficult their generation can be and how rude they are without even thinking who they could be offending.
There we are in a multi-cultural city and she is doing her racist bit again, fine if that is her opinion but does she have to say it so that everyone around her can hear?
In such a fast moving city she walks at the pace of a snail and takes so bloody long to pay for anything while she works out which coin is which that a massive queue of irritable people queue up behind her, I try to explain that it is a fast moving city and people don't have the time to wait for her and she takes it offensively, if only she knew what all the people behind her would like to say to her!
And then there's her sense of direction, that's non existant, How can you get lost in a city where all the roads are in numerical order and tell you which direction you are walking in, a bloody child could work that system out in half an hour but oh no, not my mother! She was so fucking useless that she wouldn't go out on her own so consequently I had no time on my own and by the end of 4 days out there with her it has got to the point where I can not stand the sound of her voice and pointless questions!
To put the cherry on top on our last day we couldn't do anything as the whole city came to a standstill as President Bush flew in for talks at the UN. There must be a lot of people who want him out of power as the security was as if Iraq had just invaded them. The dopey bugger then has the cheek to hold a talk at the NY library on children and literature, this is the guy who can't make a public announcement without putting his foot in it as his grammer is so terrible!
So here I am back in London, no holiday time left from work and have had a really shit break at god knows what cost and my relationship with both of my parents is close to non-existant, oh the joys of family!
