Snippets In Time - A Nut Case

She dresses haphazardly, dress wrong side out, hose twisted, shoes run-over. She hates her daughters and praises her sons, who are all no good and have been or still are in jail. She is full of threats against her daughters. Especially the threat of having their children taken away because she has denounced them as unfit mothers. Her youngest daughter receives the bulk of her venom. The young girl was unfortunate enough to have no place else to go except to her mother’s house. She also made the mistake of becoming pregnant and had no husband. The mother constantly scolded the girl for this. “You’re just a whore!” she shouted. “Your baby’s daddy is in jail. He’s no good. You’ve ruined your life!” She ranted like this daily.

When her daughter gave birth to a baby girl, she was the perfect grandmother, at first. Later, she began criticizing her daughter about the manner in which she was raising the girl. “You’re not taking care of your daughter! You’re not fit to be a mother!” She began threatening to throw the girl out into the streets. “Then what are you going to do? Be a whore on the street? That’s what you are anyway. A whore!”

Once when her daughter came home, she had set all of her belongings out on the porch. “I want you out of here,” she slung venomously.

Her children got together and had her put back into the mental institution. They would only keep her six months at a time. She was always on good behavior when she was there. At least most of the time.

When she got out again, her daughter moved from the house. “I don’t want her here anyway,” she stated. “I don’t want any of this furniture in here either. I don’t need anybody. My sons are going to come here when they get out. That’s what I want.” She rambled on about the mafia, how she could have someone killed if she wanted to.