Hmm.

[commanderdoom21]

My mom wants to put the goldfish in a bowl. I have one tiney little goldfish. I decided to put a platy in (big mistake). Now I decided to get rid of the goldfish. The large one is going to the store. My mom however wants to keep the lil one. IN A BOWL!!!!!!!!!! OH NO!!!!! What do I do? If she succeeds, I am not part of it.

 

[goldene]

Goldfish bowls should be banned its like swimming in a toilet would anyone want to do that yuk, if your mum is going to keep the fish at least persuade her to put it in in a 10 gallon tank with a filter thats if if she wants it to have any kind of life, goldfish grow pretty quickly, it wont last long in a bowl you can bet on that.

 

[commanderdoom21]

me: Mom, putting a goldfish in a bowl is totally wrong!

mom: I kept a goldfish in a bowl for a whole year in a bowl, and it wasn't even me who killed it, it was my husband who put the fish in the toilet.

me: I dunno how that fish was even happy or survived.

mom: It did. Your insane. You think an aquarium is nessecary, well, it's not. Everyone who finds an aquarium important is out of their minds. I know more than science. They think they know everything!!!!!!

me: Ever think of the fish and its happines?

mom: It's just a stupid fish. If it is unhappy, why the H*** would I care? I like it. And if it dies, it dies. It's only a fish.




This is life with my mom.

 

[lizard]

This is life with my mom.

Sorry to hear that your mother is so hard to reason with, doom. I totally understand. My mother (and father, for that matter) can be incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to reason with sometimes.

Example: I live at college. Lots of my stuff is at home, mostly in my closet, because I can't fit it all in a college dorm room. A few months ago she decided that she needed room in the closet (she's already taken over my whole room) and therefore, I needed to clear shelves for her. I calmly told her that I would simply move all of my stuff out of the house and store it elsewhere (I have friend who have no problem storing my stuff for me). She told me that made no sense and that I didn't need to over-react so much. I responded that I wasn't over-reacting and was simply trying to make things easier for her and me: my stuff would be out of her way and I wouldn't have to worry about trying to move it around whenever she decided it was in the way. Seemed logical to me, anyways... Not to her..she was upset with me and decided I was making way to big a deal out of it all and over-reacting My mother cannot be reasoned with sometimes. It's quite frustrating.

Again, I understand your frustration(s)...

Pamela
aka Lizard