Sunday sucked

I don't know if there was some astro-wacky going on or not, but Sunday was pretty well disastrous. I was with my mom and with her friend, who is a chaos magnet like myself. Well, her chaos magnet meter went off BIG time on Sunday and she was having a big meltdown. She is apparently worse than I am on those days. I will try to avoid people and detox as soon as I can, but she stayed right in the thick of people most of the day...and scared the living shit out of them. I saw her son at his job around the middle of this day and I overheard him saying that he was glad to be at work today. Oh yes.

There was an innocent bystander around when she got chaos-magneted (her car key inexplicably disappeared for hours and turned up where nobody expected it), and he kept saying this was like the Twilight Zone. I said that for chaos magnets, that's just like, Tuesday for us. Common.

At the time of the key-losing, I was the one staying calm. My mother was the problem solver, and her friend was just totally losing her shit. I stayed calm because for once the shit wasn't hitting me.

Later on that day, the two of them accompanied me while I went camera shopping, as the friend had a place in mind to go shop at. They had the camera I wanted at the price I wanted, which was fine. But the friend was still in snapping turtle mode and she scared the crap out of the poor guy at the counter, who had already been having a bad day BEFORE we all came in and really trashed it.

After we left the friend behind, clearly she passed Snapping Turtle Mode on to my mom, because SHE proceeded to go ballistic on salesclerks. It was one of those "well, the lady saaaaaaid" situations- which is to say, if lady at store A tells you something is true, it turned out NOT to be true at store B, and shouldn't have been done at store A either. I found this out and was polite and went away, but my mom went ballistic in their faces. And in mine (I'm talking waving her hand in my face and yelling at me to shut up here). Classy! In the end, she STILL didn't win the argument at all, but said that when she was around her friend she felt like she had to stand up and fight. Meanwhile I was all, "Um, we can't fix this today, we can fix this at another time with the right paperwork, why don't we just LEAVE?"

Then she proceeded to suck me dry for hours. I love how someone's bad mood gets passed along like a cold, doesn't it?