A Real Conversation With Mother-in-Law
May. 14th, 2012 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreadfulpennyMIL: Dillard's is running a promotion right now where you receive a scratch-off card in return for trying on a pair of [some brand] shoes. You can get ten, twenty or even fifty dollars off a pair of shoes.
ME: Great!
MIL: Do you think that you and J. might be going to the mall tomorrow? Because if you are, would you mind going by Dillard's and trying on a pair of shoes? I found a pair that I really want, but I can't get them unless I get the fifty dollar coupon. When I went I got a twenty dollar coupon. [Goes on to outline her plan to take some coworkers to the mall to get them to try on shoes in an attempt to get a fifty dollar coupon for herself.]
Why yes. She really *DOES* believe that somebody will give her this coupon. It never even occurred to her for one moment that if J. or I (or any of her friends for that matter) actually get this $50 bonus that we'd, you know, use it ourselves?
ME: Great!
MIL: Do you think that you and J. might be going to the mall tomorrow? Because if you are, would you mind going by Dillard's and trying on a pair of shoes? I found a pair that I really want, but I can't get them unless I get the fifty dollar coupon. When I went I got a twenty dollar coupon. [Goes on to outline her plan to take some coworkers to the mall to get them to try on shoes in an attempt to get a fifty dollar coupon for herself.]
Why yes. She really *DOES* believe that somebody will give her this coupon. It never even occurred to her for one moment that if J. or I (or any of her friends for that matter) actually get this $50 bonus that we'd, you know, use it ourselves?
