I’m embarrassed that I didn’t figure this out till I was in my mid-40’s, but my mom loves making mean spirited jabs about my weight and then defending her statement by saying “only your family will tell you these things”. Huh? I should be grateful my mom insults me? Anyway, in the past I’d be upset and insult her right back, we’d get into an argument that took days to blow over. Now, at whatever she says, I offhandedly remark, “You know Mom, you could be right”, change the subject and ignore her. I also leave at the first opportunity and ignore her till the next family outing. This pisses her off now that I don’t give her any more opportunities to jerk me around.
:weeps with laughter: Oh, wow. That’s wonderful.
This beats Louise Hay any day…
I’m 32 and my crime is refusing to make grandchildren for my mom. I get a two-fer since this also pisses off my mother-in-law. It’s turned into an experiment to see how long I can keep pissing them off.
I get along pretty well with my parents. But I think it pissed them off by moving to the other side of the country. They expressed it by making subtle digs at my ability to succeed at taking care of myself. When moving: “why bring everything? You’ll just have to repack it when you come back.” Mama, I’m not going to college, I’m moving out of the house. They’ve since come to terms.
Well, and the time she got mad because I played with the dog too much when I was visiting. That was funny.
I mock their cruising lifestyle.
I’m not sure my nails ever pissed my mother off, as such. I think she was more annoyed than pissed off; “You look like a girl,” she’d complain (I think she just envied my pretty, pretty nails :D). At any rate, she hasn’t mentioned them in a while, so maybe she’s come to terms with them.
By being 40, divorced and having no children and no intention of marrying again. I can really piss them off by dating women under 30 too.
I haven’t spoken to my dad in 7 years, which I’m sure really pisses him off because he can’t control me or belittle me.
My mom is impossible to piss off because she’s so disassociated from any kind of emotion as a defense mechanism from suffering my father’s abuse for the last 38 years.
My mother is American, but she has a very strange accent that’s a mix of Michigan, Texas, Canada, and whatever else has rubbed off on her in her near 50 years. I piss her off like crazy by making fun of her accent. I can get her so self-conscious, that she’ll try to say the word differently. When she does that, I laugh harder.
Right there with you - I think the last thing I did that made the 'rents happy was when Mr. Kat and I got married, and that was 13 years ago. Can’t say that worked for my in-laws; while they’re big proponents of marriage (only in the eyes of Gawwwwwwd, however; a JOP or anything that’s not a preacher in their religion doesn’t count), they were really not happy that their precious darling chose me.
I just don’t even care anymore that our lack of kids pisses them all off. Don’t want ‘em, not havin’ 'em, can’t make me. So there! 
Pppphhhhttt!
I told my mom if she rubbed a nickel on ol’ blue eyes pic on her Frank Sinatra abum covers, his cloths would rub off.
I told her also the Grand Coolie dam was named after the Chinese coolines that build it after they built the trans continental railroad.
She bit, but later never trusted a thing I said.
No straight dope website in those days to clear the air.
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I just gotta get my typo proof reading before I post under control.
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I just gotta get my typo proof reading before I post under control.