Let's see if I can explain . . . and if it makes ANY sense. So, I decided to buy my folks a flat screen TV. Their TV is old, the colors are blending, the image is not sharp . . . well, its about time. So, we went to Walmart for some other stuff.We walk over to the TVs. I tell them, "OK, which one do you like and which one would be better? This one or this one? (pointing out a couple of flatscreens)"
Mom: "Oh, don't do that. It is not necesssary"
Me: "Yes it is. That TV is old"
Mom: "But its working fine. Use the money for something you need."
Me: "I need to buy you this."
Mom: "No, no. Don't do that. Its fine"
Dad meanwhile is quiet.
After a bit of back and forth same argument . . .
Mom: "OK, we need a computer"
Me: "That's about $2000. I did not PLAN on that. I made plans for something else. I had it all figured out and planned out."
Mom: "Save the money. Put it in your savings and use it for something else. For your train rides here."
Me: "Yeah, like a train ride costs $350"
Dad: "I think the TV is bolted into the cabinet"
Me: "Never heard of that dad"
Mom: "No, really. I think it is"
Me: "Fine, we'll put it like I have mine . . . on TOP of the old TV"
Dad: "But the TV fits into that cabinet so well. It'll have a space at the top cause that flat screen is smaller"
Me: "Mom can fill it in with her fake plants and flowers."
really, their best argument is that stupid cabinet and a hole?
I tried to explain that what I heard was "No, we don't want you giving us a present. We don't want it."
Finally I told them to drop it. Don't want to hear it.
Mom: "The best present we have is you . . ." (yada, yada, yada . . . I know the rest of the story).
Me: "I said drop it"
Mom: "OK, sorry."
Why are parents so difficult?!
Honestly . . . here was my plan . . . a flat screen TV, plug in my computer (I have a LOT of movies in Spanish), easy and fun TV watching and family time AND they end up with a much better TV.
Side note: At least mom allowed me to buy an adaptor to go from my computer to their old TV.
And a funny note - mom mentioned that they could use a new remote cause their old one did not work. I had to say "Oh, for that ancient TV that you two have that works so well?"
