In a heartwarming story out of Dayton, OH, your mom just gave you an impromptu phone call to check in because she woke up in the middle of the night and knew in her gut that you had passed on.
A mother always knows!
“I’m very much alive,” you told reporters. “And I told her that over the phone at 4 a.m. But that didn’t stop her from continuing to act like I had. She thinks she’s some sort of soothsayer.”
Your mom said she’s had moments like these many times over the years and sometimes they have been correct.
“One time I had a feeling that my youngest was in danger,” your mom told reporters. “And when I called her, she was driving! Do you know how many car accidents happen every year?”
Wow –– a mom’s instincts are a beautiful and mysterious thing!
However, you felt it prudent to mention all of the other times her “gut instinct” had been completely wrong.
“One time she called me freaking out that I had been stabbed simply because I took too long to text her back,” you said. “Not just attacked, stabbed. She said my silence took the form of a meat cleaver. I don’t even know what that means!”
Interpreting your stray, anxious thoughts as fundamental truths communicated to you by the universe itself is a quintessential part of motherhood!
According to your siblings, this behavior began even before you all moved away.
“I dropped the shampoo in the shower once and she burst into the bathroom because she thought I had just dropped dead of a brain aneurysm,” your older sister told reporters. “She always jumps to the worst case scenario.”
Regardless of the accuracy of her gut instincts, you admitted that it was nice having someone who cared enough to check in on you.
“I mean, yeah, I guess I’m glad there’s someone out there who’s worried that I’m trapped in an elevator or being attacked by a rare, city-dwelling wolf,” you said. “I just wish that person didn’t call me with those worries every two weeks in the dead of night.”
Fair enough!
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