Let me set the stage for you: My landlady is my mother's friend's friend. My mom also knows her, but not well. The auntie said she met me when I was four. I have no recollection of this auntie. At all. So we don't have an existing relationship. We share a staircase, but live on separate floors. There is a door to each flat.
Last week, she walked into the flat, unannounced, at 9:30pm, and started asking me personal questions. Wait for it...are you dating anyone? I laughed it off and said,"If I were, I wouldn't be in Hong Kong," hoping that would be the end of it.
Nope.
I will not bore you with the details, but here are a few highlights:
1) Don't spend your time getting your PhD application together. Spend time making yourself pretty and dress up for work.
2) Don't get a PhD. You will not find a guy who can match you.
3) Don't have such high expectations...accept 80%...70%...60%...just date someone.
She is in her 60's. She's married. She has a 30-year-old son. And she has a PhD. Yep, SHE HAS A PHD.
I am still in disbelieve that these things came out of her mouth. This is the advice you give to someone else's daughter? And I'm a virtual stranger!
Here's the kicker: She thinks this is a to-be-continued conversation. Help!
SET BOUNDARIES IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!! ASK HER TO LEAVE AND COME BACK WHEN SHE HAS SOMETHING POSITIVE TO SAY AND LET HER KNOW THAT YOU ARE SECRETLY MARRIED BUT YOU HAVEN'T TOLD ANYONE BUT HER BECAUSE YOUR HUSBAND IS A PYGMIE (SP?) AND YOU LEFT HIM IN THE MOUNTAINS IN A TREE WHICH YOU CANNOT WAIT TO GET BACK TO. SWEAR HER TO SECRECY AND ASK HER TO NOT MENTION ANOTHER MAN AGAIN AS YOU WOULD FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE AS THOUGH YOU WERE CHEATING ON HIM.....ASK HER IF SHE EVER HAD A LESBIAN RELATIONSHIP. SEE IF SHE IS ALLERGIC TO CATS.....IF SO....GET 3.
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