Just a quick note

I know, I know...you are all relatively sure that it's not possible for me to keep it short and sweet...but I'm tired.  And yes, even tired, I have something to say...

Tonight I realized I'm entering that phase in my life where I get to parent my children and my parents.

Hurray for me.

I'm thinking about grounding my mother from driving at night.  Seriously.  She was driving ahead of me, with The Short One, and I had the rest of my family in my car on the way to the boys' Christmas concert tonight.  (That'll be tomorrow's blog btw)...

I watched her make the widest ever right hand turn...which I figured must have been distraction..you know, the girls were talkin...whatevs...

But then I watched her make a left turn onto a more major street (country style highway), and STAY in the left lane, narrowly avoiding a head on collision with an oncoming vehicle.  I had a sneaking suspicion that if The Short One weren't beside her, she would have hit that car, or someone would have ended up in the ditch...gawd!

When we had a moment and I told her that I saw this, she shrugged it off.. saying she wasn't familiar with the area...

Familiar?  WTF....so what...she drives in an "unfamiliar" or new place and she forgets what roads and corners look like?  The big bold yellow line that should have been on the left side of your car didn't tip you off?  Come on mom!!  She was confused, didn't see the ditch or center line, or I dunno what...but none of those reasons work for me...

And PS.. this was NOT a new place ...she may not go to Waterford every day, but she's been many many times...we lived there 10 friggin years!!!!

So I warned her that if I saw that again she wouldn't be allowed to drive at night again.   Call me crusty but there's no way in hell that I will allow someone I know to risk their's or anyone else's lives...not gonna happen.  I will totally rat her out...

Oh this conversation is not over...

No no no (Petri voice)

I'm going to  bed now...

K .. it was sort of short...