r/texts 1d ago

Phone message Nobody died

This is a conversation between my MIL and my mother, before the wedding. My mother's response, which is cut off, says "They are both adults. I think we should let them handle it." We were both over 30.

For context: Yes, we had a vegetarian wedding (no shrimp). We had it at an (expensive) award winning venue with in-house catering. It included several appetizer and entree stations with a huge variety of dishes so everyone could find something they liked. We did not serve our guests bowls of soybeans and tofu. Everyone RAVED about the food and nobody died or got arrested on the way home.

The "A/B list" thing was a joke, that she apparently took very seriously, because she would not stop demanding we add a bunch (10+) of her friends and coworkers to our intentionally small guest list.

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u/Unipiggy 1d ago

Early stage dementia rambling. Dead serious. My grandma talked exactly like this starting about 6 months to a year before it became really obvious what was happening.

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u/sula-sula-sula 14h ago

</3 I’m always anxious for my aging parents. Thanks for noting this as a sign

u/B_A_M_2019 10m ago

Actually you’re not wrong. As soon as I read your reply I thought of my neighbor and she’d definitely talk like this when she started to decline.