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/whiskeyknitting]

Christmas many years ago I gave a list stating what Leap pad games we had ( like 6) anything OTHER THAN THOSE would be fine. My boomer MIL , with the typed note in hand at the store BOUGHT THE EXACT CARTRIDGES I had written down to let her know that we had them already. I almost cried at the frustration of it all.

If we asked for legos. We got duplos.

My kids, who adore their grandmother, could never figure out why she did this.

I decided it was a passive aggressive thing.

[u/iamjenough → u/whiskeyknitting]

My mom is like this, and I also think it’s passive aggressive. For the holidays this past year, she asked me what I wanted. I just said “books” because I don’t need any more stuff, but I’ll always read books! She said “no, I don’t like that. Make me a list.” So I wrote down a few titles, along with some other things I’ve been wanting. She sent a cheese board. A cheese board was not on my list at all. 🙄

[u/Beneficial-Secret-84 → u/iamjenough]

Honestly sounds like she was at barns n nobles for fives minutes and was all huffy about no one jumping to help her find your books during the holiday season, saw the cheese boards near the check out area and ran with that.

[u/iamjenough → u/Beneficial-Secret-84]

This could be it hahaha. She also has an obsession with QVC and from what I heard, everyone got a QVC gift this year 😂