Why You All Suck Compared to My Mother

Email this morning:
Subject: Call Me!
From: Elaine Kramer
Call me when you get up. Want to know how you feel. Are you still coughing and sneezing? Are you taking any medicine? I worry about you. My direct phone number is 1-212-xxx- xxxx or you can call 1-212-xxx-xxxx and get Audrey at the desk who will connect me with you, or you can call me on the cellphone at 1-718-xxx-xxxx, or later at home at 1-718-xxx-xxxx.
Your mother
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I do suck compared to your mom. I don’t know if I’ve ever asked you how you felt. On the flip side, have you ever asked me that? It’s all about reciprocity…Except with your mom.
By churlita on 04.24.08 9:41 am
That is true, Churlita. How are you today?
By Neil on 04.24.08 9:47 am
Moms are supposed to be the best when it comes to babying us when we are sick.
I don’t even have as many phone numbers as your Mom anyhow. I could never measure up!
By sizzle on 04.24.08 10:02 am
I wish I’d had a nice mom like that.
By Rhea on 04.24.08 10:14 am
You can mail a man cod liver oil but you can’t make him take it…
hope you’re feeling better soon Neil.
By Pearl on 04.24.08 10:21 am
What? This is how it’s supposed to work? I’m going to have to have a long chat with my mom on this topic.
By Dagny on 04.24.08 10:30 am
Ahh…. what a nice mom.
By 180/360 on 04.24.08 10:34 am
Dude, you suck! You obviously don’t know your mother’s phone number(s).
Get well soon.
By Chag on 04.24.08 11:33 am
I like how she gives you her cell phone and her home phone number…I’d be even more surprised if you don’t have those. Hope you feel better!
By -RM on 04.24.08 11:49 am
your mom is awesome.
and i hope you’re feeling better.
By iamthediva on 04.24.08 12:06 pm
I’m feeling so shitty, that I’m forcing myself to look at naked women online… and I don’t even care. They mean nothing to me. Zilch. I just want to go to bed and cover myself and sleep for the next few……………………
By Neil on 04.24.08 12:13 pm
That is so unbelievably cute! Aw bless!
By Bec on 04.24.08 12:33 pm
Yea, why so many numbers? and don’t you already have these numbers?
Get to feeling better soon!
By gorillabuns on 04.24.08 12:47 pm
Mothers. She could have spared the melodrama and just called *you*.
By Rattling the Kettle on 04.24.08 1:04 pm
Well, did you call her Neilochka? You certainly have no excuses about not being able to reach her.
By HeyJoe on 04.24.08 1:05 pm
Rattling — That’s what I said. Mothers are such drama queens.
By Neil on 04.24.08 1:16 pm
And you love every moment of the dram–if it is focused on your well-being!
Hope you feel better soon; I’m sick too and I’m not a happy camper.
By plain jane on 04.24.08 3:03 pm
Oh so sweet! And I hope you’re feeling better.
By Scarlet on 04.24.08 3:29 pm
The only person who fusses over me when I’m sick is my 10-year-old daughter. She’s going to be Jewish mother one day…
By V-Grrrl on 04.24.08 3:41 pm
Wow. No wonder you’re so spoiled.
By Atomic Bombshell on 04.24.08 3:47 pm
Did you get a care package from her yet?
Feel better!
By Stacey on 04.24.08 4:29 pm
I’m reading between the lines here and predict there will be some food sent your way by a certain Mama-rama. Hope you feel better soon. It sounds like you’re fairly miserable. Have you ever tried frozen gingerale??–pour gingerale in an ice cube tray and freeze…easy way to keep getting some fluids in you. Take care.
By AnnieH on 04.24.08 4:49 pm
my kids want me to learn how to text message, they text me but i always have to wait until i get home and then they show me how to check it, just one more option she might need to learn to cover all of the bases.
does she really sign herself as “your mother”?
By better safe than sorry on 04.25.08 2:44 am
It occurred to me this morning as I prepared breakfast for Son No. 2 (aka the Jewish prince- age 17)to deliver it to his room that your mother’s email portends my future.
I wonder if I am making his future wife miserable by waiting on him - I am thinking yes.
By Judy on 04.25.08 4:27 am
i tried calling 212-xxx-xxxx and 718-xxx-xxxx, and it turned out to be all nines. as in “212-999-9999.” your mother isn’t at that number!
on the other hand, i do suck compared to your mother.
By bookfraud on 04.25.08 5:16 am
“I’m feeling so shitty, that I’m forcing myself to look at naked women online”
Neil, you are so brave…no wonder your mom is so proud of you.
By cruisin-mom on 04.25.08 6:26 am
You mean your mother is on e-mail and cares? Sheesh… can I borrow her please? The most mine can manage is a one-liner without punctuation or space called “news” and berating me sternly [this is just one line, remember, so eahc word must pack a punch] about not having been in touch. I am insanely jealous as well as a lonely, neglected only child. Get well soon Neil, as I take it this post means you are ailing somewhat.
By Ariel on 04.25.08 6:26 am
Awwwwwwwww, that is so sweet. Can I borrow your mom too? ‘Cause I go to great lengths not to tell my mom when anybody at my house is sick (and we’ve been the House of Plague since November) because she freaks out at me and tells me it’s awful and basically makes it sound like it’s all my fault. Sigh. You’ve got it good.
By Violet The Verbose on 04.25.08 3:58 pm
Yeah well can your mom make a tasty tray of cinnamon chocolate chip cookies? humm, humm, hummm?
By Shannon on 04.25.08 4:03 pm
i’m interviewing for new moms, due to the fact that my madre lacked these nurturing qualities. your mom appears to be a good candidate. the plus side of this is that my son gets all that special mothering i never received and in my madre’s words, “you treat that boy like he’s jesus christ” like it was a bad thing.
By piglet on 04.25.08 9:13 pm
my mom would just ask me if I prayed about it.
By just the three of us ladies on 04.27.08 3:50 pm
All I can say is that I hope you called her. You don’t want to get that level of concern mad at you…
By HRH @ June Cleaver Nirvana on 04.27.08 6:01 pm
Due to Passover,I had to “pass over” reading your blog and commenting any earlier.
It is quite clear, Neil, that your mother wanted you to contact her. Did you? HUH???
Jewish guilt never hurt anyone.
Hope you’re feeling better by now.
By TorontoPearl on 04.27.08 9:51 pm
I am, thanks. And I did call my Mom. And Passover will be over soon. I hope you’re enjoying your holiday and matzoh brei.
By Neil on 04.27.08 10:22 pm
She didn’t give you her IM?wtf? Is she following you on twitter? Did she send a care package?
I love mom’s. I’m 41 and if I have the sniffles she wants to send “daddy to get me some medicine”.. I have a husband and my daddy is 88..
LOL
By mp on 04.30.08 11:23 am
Mom’s are the best. I would never know when it’s time to change the clocks back/forward unless my mom called the night before and told me.
By Ginormous Boobs on 05.12.08 5:28 pm
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