No good deed goes unpunished...

[yakalskovich]

... and I am punished frightfully for something I did this morning: I installed a copy of Kyodai mahjongg on my mother's newly revived computer so she'll have something else to play than just Solitaire and Free Cell while practising with the spiny ball under her foot to loosen her bad knee. I suggeested that to her, so I felt responsible for her entertainment during the excercise...

Since then she has been playing and playing, all the while frobbing that spiny ball under her sole; she even missedd the news, normally almost sacred with my parents.

I will never ever give my mother another game to play, I swear!

The problem's not the addiction, that will be over in a few days - the problem is that my mother and her computer use the desk in my former room, where my own little foldup computer has found its temporary abode and where I sleep as well. She sits in my room, and she won't go away - so I can neither do nefarious things online nor go to sleep.

I am sure you can hear me wail right from where you are...

Comments

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

your mom sounds scarily like my mom (grew up with her working on the computer 'til 2 a.m. every night, and she's still a freak about it)... though sometimes you sound scarily like me, so there you go. one funny thing is that i too gave my mom something i maybe shouldn't have... a few pounds worth of black salted dutch licorice. it's not ALL gone yet, but oh dear...

[yakalskovich]

This is really getting scary, my dear Wiebke - the one sweet that my mother really likes is effin' licorice!!

I got my predilection for licorice and porcelain from her. If I want to see her truly ecstastic, all I have to do is give her something with crossed blue swords on the bottom for Christmas, her birthday, mother's day or some such occasion; licorice, unfortunately, is a bit easier to come by here, so she gets it herself.

Last night, she was here till half past one, wiggling her "Igelball" and trying to crack the mahjongg...

deep sigh

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

My mom's always loved licorice and me too, but then I discovered those Salzige Herringe kind and then some other salteds and from visiting England and Germany (and Amsterdam) I began to find all the other really strong Dutch ones, to the point she now likes ones that are too disgusting for me really :)

[vaysh]

*eats mahjongg*Now it can't be played and much sleep can be had!*throws glitter*

If your mom is like mine, though, the game addiction will never go away. My mom only gets on the comp to play that game, and she'll do it until someone begs the comp away from her.

[yakalskovich]

That seems to be something mothers do with computers. Mine is now, twenty-four hours later, still sitting beside me, playing mahjongg...