I've decided what the real problem is with der B's daughter, Magic Mommy.
She doesn't have a clew as to how to listen to others.
In every conversation, including those held yesterday, she has opinions, oh yes she has opinions. And she made clear that she has opinions. The sad thing is, she has absolutely no respect for other people's opinions, because she only allows herself the right to be right.
A simple discussion of toll booths came up, for example. She daily has to cross the Bay Bridge into Annapolis on her way to work. No toll booth going into Annapolis. But in the other direction, there is a regular jam at the toll booth for people wishing to escape from Annapolis, what with driviers having to fumble for the correct change. This blockage regularly takes ten minutes for her to get through. And I have no doubt that she is right in her reporting of this, as der B and I have noted the blockage ourselves.
However, and there is a however, it is therefor her contention that it also takes ten minutes to get through the tollbooths just south of Dover on Delaware's Highway One. These are tollbooths that der B and I travel through on a regular basis. We have never been held up by ten minutes waiting to get through the tollbooths. Not once. For one thing, the toll is a dollar, so there is no fumbling for change. And once we're through the booths, it takes no time at all to get back up to speed.
Nope, Magic Mommy will have none of it. She is right, she is always right, and it matters not to her that she is comparing apples to oranges.
This arguement went on for ten minutes. We could have traveled through the Bay Bridge toll booth in the same amount of time it took for this arguement to take place.
And it was an arguement about nothing!
On our way home, after returning from Philly to the Magic Mommy house and getting back in our car, der Brucer decided we should time how long it took to get through the Dover toll booth.
Ninety seconds, tops, from having to start applying the brakes, getting into the most crowded lane (he does play fair), paying the toll, and then getting back up to speed.
