sf wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:44:45 -0500, "jmcquown" >
> wrote:
>
>> Then
>> later when it was time to clear the table and wash dishes <G> That's when
>> she wanted help.
>
> That's the alternative, but future family members should never park
> their butts on the couch and act like a guest before or after dinner.
> Pitch in and help until shooed off and don't act stupid on purpose.


It looks like my son is getting pretty serious with his latest girl. She
will be coming down for the weekend with him for the third time in two
months. She is always asking to help. How different she is from one of
my sisters in law who never helped my mother with dinner and cleanup
before are after she married my brother. Hell, she took her mother and a
visiting aunt to visit my parents a few days after my mother got home
from the hospital with a knee replacement. She suggested that her mother
and aunt would like a cup of tea and never offered to help, leaving my
mother to hobble into the kitchen on crutches.