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[quote=KaraZetterberg153;50843991]One of your grandmother's friends? Another old person? My impulse would be to slap the $hit out of them, but since they're old, don't. Instead, tell them, if you weren't so old, I'd slap the $hit out of you.
Are you sure she's a friend? I think not. What would your grandmother say if she had heard it? Did you tell her?
Or maybe they're mentally disabled, in which case, ignore it.[/QUOTE
I'm not the op so can't answer your questions . I guess if it happened to me I would just stare at the so called friend with a raised eyebrow.
I was eating with my grandmother and some of her friends a few weeks ago and when I left, I told my grandmother "bye, I love you." When I was walking out to my car one of her friends also walked out and said in a snotty tone of voice "bye, I love you" and started laughing.
Not that it really bothered me all that much as it just made her look stupid, but I wonder why some people openly mock others. Isn't that pathetic?
It sounds like they were mocking your grandmother in her own home. That would be unacceptable to me. I'd kick someone out if they acted like that under my roof.
Just another person I don't have to buy a holiday card for. I might have given them a level stare for a few moments, then removed them from my Rolodex of human beings.
I was eating with my grandmother and some of her friends a few weeks ago and when I left, I told my grandmother "bye, I love you." When I was walking out to my car one of her friends also walked out and said in a snotty tone of voice "bye, I love you" and started laughing.
Not that it really bothered me all that much as it just made her look stupid, but I wonder why some people openly mock others. Isn't that pathetic?
You hit the nail on the head. The lady sounds like a jerk.
I wonder if she is jealous that you love your grandmother.
I was eating with my grandmother and some of her friends a few weeks ago and when I left, I told my grandmother "bye, I love you." When I was walking out to my car one of her friends also walked out and said in a snotty tone of voice "bye, I love you" and started laughing.
Not that it really bothered me all that much as it just made her look stupid, but I wonder why some people openly mock others. Isn't that pathetic?
Did anyone else leave as early as you, opening up the possibility that they thought you were leaving too early? Or were all the other people older and one felt you should be with people your own age, so you were out of place being there at all?
I think the person was mocking the fad of so many people saying 'love you' or 'I love you' at the end of many cellphone conversations and in-person meetings.
The fad started with saying 'love you' at the end of cellphone conversations - and many people started copying each other in saying it - and it is and was often said to people who one is just casual friends with and to people with whom there is no deep history or to people with whom there is no established relationship.
Sometimes 'love you' is said at the end of conversations to see if the other person will say it back to you, as a plea for evidence of regard or as a test of whether the person likes you and feels strongly enough to say 'love you' back.
The fad caused an epidemic of many people saying 'love you' so often - and often not to people who are anywhere close to being a loved one in one's life.
It is said so casually these days at the end of cellphone conversations and in-person get-togethers that it has lost some of its value and meaning.
It certainly gets said a lot in my home. Always has, always will. And, it isn't a "fad" in my home.
I feel sorry that it is in yours.
OP...Regarding the person you are discussing in the OP.
I'd discuss this so called "friend" with your G.Mother...Because a friend would not be insulting or mocking a real friends family.
It certainly gets said a lot in my home. Always has, always will. And, it isn't a "fad" in my home.
I feel sorry that it is in yours.....
You misread her posting.
The poster did not say it was a fad in hers, her comments were about how extremely casual the use of the word "love" has become since it became a cell phone sign-off.
I have to say that I hear many, many people tossing off "Love ya" after their goodbyes with all of the feeling of the formerly used "So long."
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