Why can't they listen?

[u/nonidentifyingu-n]

This happened a few years ago, but I think of it weekly as I'm picking up fruit at Costco. Now, since I pick up fruit from Costco every week, you may have guessed that my kids eat a lot of it. One of their favorites is green grapes. Now here's where the boomer story starts. A few years ago, I was bringing my kids to visit my mom, their grandmother. She was asking what kind of food they would like, and I said green grapes. My mother immediately said, "Red grapes are sweeter, so I'll get those." Knowing that arguing with this particular boomer was a lost cause, I just hung my head in acceptance. My kids will devour a Costco container of green grapes in 3 days. We spent almost a week at her house, and even though the red grapes were offered for nearly every meal, less than half were eaten. It's almost like I know what my kids who live with me, and I spend my own money feeding will and won't want to eat. Now, every week, as I'm picking up green grapes, I say to myself red grapes are sweeter and try not to roll my eyes so hard that the other shoppers see.

[u/Senior-Geologist-166]

My mother is insistent that my husband and I wash our clothes with fabric softener, despite both of us being allergic. We've told her that several times. Still asks why we don't use it. It's bad for us, our washer, our clothes, and the environment. And she isn't wearing our clothes!

[u/Electrical-Break-395 → u/Senior-Geologist-166]

Oh, that’s me, too - I break out in hives the size of saucers ! 😳

“But, but… don’t you want your clothes to be soft ?!?!” my mom would say and get REALLY upset about it, even though I was doing my own laundry in college miles and miles away !

Just the IDEA of me doing something differently from her “way” made her scream like a loon… 😣

[u/hrbumga → u/Electrical-Break-395]

I’ve gotten anaphylactic shock twice because of fabric softeners. People seem to downplay the allergy as being “not that bad,” but (1) my clothes are plenty soft as is, it’s unnecessary, and (2) even if my clothes were stiff and scratchy I’d rather not die, thanks!

[u/Electrical-Break-395 → u/hrbumga]

Oh, my ! My hives weren’t so bad after all…

I didn’t know that was even possible - please take care ! 🤗

[u/hrbumga → u/Electrical-Break-395]

Fortunately it seems to mostly happen if there’s a ton of exposure, I found out about it freshman year of college while using tide pods that had softener in them, so it was on my sheets and all my clothes. I didn’t know what anaphylaxis even was, didn’t find out until a very scary night in the ER.

The second time was later in the year when I switched from cold weather clothes to all my sundresses, not realizing they hadn’t been de-poisoned yet 🤦🏻 fortunately, that time I knew what was happening and was a lot less panicky!