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so. um. shopping with mom today was. reminiscent of shopping with my grandmother.
except gram threw fits. mom just... acted like a lost child.

she told me to go get the things on the list while she got her prescription at the pharmacy. (she also told me how to get the things, like the order, and i didn't. i did it my way because when you buy 16 gallons of water... you put them in first so you can put things on top and they don't get squished)

anyway.

i am going about, doing my thing, and i was in the toilet paper aisle. when i hear the sound of one of those little kid balls they sell. i hear the ball bouncing and turn to look and see my mother chasing it. and i called out "do you need help mom?" but she ignores me, and says to the girl behind the bakery counter, "if you see someone looking for their mom, it's me." or something like that.
i just stood there in.. shock? embarrassment? multiple feelings.
like. what?
i can't even.
i stood there a minute and she walked off.
and i'm like.
what. just. happened.

i got the toilet paper, turned around and went to get her. she looked confused.
she had been looking for me. didn't hear me call out to her. and was just standing at the end of the foreign food aisle.

and this older couple walk by and mom says to them "i found my daughter."
i'm like.... okay then.
so i have to convince her to look for the last two items together. it was hard enough finding her before (or her finding me). then we go to check out and she tells me "you get in line. i have to go talk to a lady in the back."
what?
i was concerned because i mean.. what does that even mean? and she was confused enough before... like...
whatever.
there's no telling her no.
and there's no asking her to explain herself. she gets huffy and nasty when you do.
so i stood in line, which was a long enough wait that she comes back, eating crab cake. xd
i guess the sample lady had run out and mom was waiting for her to get more.
she could have just told me.
nope.

that's my mom.

she's a bit scatterbrained like this nowadays.

oh and as we're driving home, she waved to the guys doing construction.
and i'm like "dont". and so she barks.
emotion_facepalm
the window is down. they can maybe hear her barking "at them". (she's told me a few times when she was a teen she used to bark out of the car window at boys on the street. she thought it was funny. )
she intentionally did it to piss me off. i'm convinced of it.
but all i could mutter was "you intentionally did that."
i didn't end it with "to get a reaction out of me" because -- no matter her response -- she'd be nasty about it.
and all i could think is "is your frontal cortex damaged?!?!?!" because who just does embarrassing or harassing s**t like that?