Quote From: shadycat1 LOL,
Wouldn't it have been HILARIOUS if she had learned enough French, to cut her MIL off at the pass, I mean PRIVATE lessons because I don't think Hubby would tell her the truth anyway.
I remember this from the first one, and I have to say she fits the stereotype of a Quebecois very nicely (I'm not speaking of the average French Canadian, but how they are stereotyped ), so her fellow Quebers should be thanking her for perpetuating the Myth of them all be rude and crude toward English speaking people, she's almost lucky her son married an American, because French is compulsary in many Canadian Schools, we learn enough often, she wouldn't even try.
Well I hope he made a decision he is happy with, one way or another.
I had a similar mother-in-law. She not only found fault with me, she found fault with my husband because he was happy working with his hands and was not a self-made millionaire like his arrogant, insufferable brother. A native of Paris, she and the brother and his wife all spoke French...my husband never used it and had long forgotten what he had learned in early childhood. One evening the family had great fun saying rude things about me and my husband and laughing among themselves until, near the end of the evening, the brother became drunk and obnoxious.
I asked his wife if her husband was always so difficult and she replied "Only when he has had too much to drink,." It took her a moment to realize that I had asked the question in flawless French, and when it dawned on her, she at least had the good grace to blush beet red...the shocked and mortified look on her face was worth money! What none of them knew...because none of them were polite enough to inquire about me and my life...was that I minored in French was was employed by a local college as a French tutor.
Not another word of French was spoken in my presence over the next 12 years I was involved with that family! When my husband died, I cut them loose and don't feel I've lost a thing of value, including the diamonds and money she hinted would be in her will for me.
So I have to wonder...is this kind of arrogance common among European women? Or were Amanda and I just lucky?
