My daughter must have overheard me on the phone talking to my mom. My Grandma-In-Law makes pies and that's her big family thing. Her family thinks her pies are THE BEST.
I don't care for her pies, I like my mom's better. It might be just how you're raised. Anyway, I was discussing that with my mom one day over the phone. I THOUGHT my daughter was busy playing!
A few days later we went to my Grandmother-in-Law's and she served her "famous" pie. Like all grandmas she gave me a piece and then hovered over me to see if I liked it. Of course I smiled and said "mmmmm--delicious!"
My daughter piped up "I thought you didn't like Grandma's Pies!"
I said "Of course I do, where did you hear that?"
And with the honesty of a child she said "I heard you telling Grandma J (my mom) that you like her pies better."
I almost died at the table! However, my Grandma-in-Law just laughed and said "well, everyone is entitled to their opininon!"
I'm going to watch what I say from now on!!
Anything like this ever happen to you?
I would have just said "Honey, I was just trying to make Grandma J feel good about her cooking. I love Grandma's pie"s!"
everyone loves their parents cooking the best=) atleast your mil is normal and didn't go ape on you
Oh my gosh this just happened to my SIL...
We were all over my IL's and apparently last week some time my MIL cut my SIL's daughters hair. I guess she didn't say anything to her about it. But then her son (the brother) who is 4 went to my MIL's the next day and told MIL that mommy was mad you cut sissy's hair. She wasn't mad at your house, but got really mad at home. I'm guessing SIL was venting to either the BIL or over the phone. MIL called SIL out on it in front of me and my other SIL. Awkward!?!
This just happened to me on Saturday! We have a wonderful couple that we're friends with that have little kids the same age as ours. They have a tendency to stay late when we invite them over (last time they didn't leave until 10:30 - they got to our house around 5pm)! So hubby and I were playing around in the car saying things like "you have to get them out by 9:30 - it takes 30 minutes for them to gather everything up" - just teasing or whatever.
Well - Saturday night my son was getting tired and wanted to go to bed but our friends and their kids were still here. So he looks at me and says "it's almost 9:30 - you said they needed to be out of here by 10pm"! I almost died - fortunately my girlfriend didn't hear - but I was still embarrassed. I had a quick talk with my son later explaining that saying something like that could hurt people's feelings. LOL
You can still like something even though you don't think it's the best. I don't think you were lying, it's not like you went on and on about how it was the best pie you ever tasted, right? I think in that situation you could have said "I do like grandma's the best but this is delicious too!".
OMG - I HATE THOSE MOMENTS!
One morning, while I was getting ready for the day, I could tell my husband was pi$$y about something... so I made the mistake of asking why... (this was a month or so after our wedding, and I have all our pictures on disk...)
He said that he was upset that I do all these pictures for everyone else (I dabble in photography), but I hadn't printed a single picture of us to hang in our home. (He has always had issues with the fact that we have very few, almost NO pictures of us... so he's kind of justified...) Anyhow, I made some kind of lame, but true, argument back, saying that I was waiting until we moved so I can plan where I want them, what sizes, what kind of frames, etc... and that was true, but I still could have printed something just to have at our house NOW. Anyhow, the conversation got a little heated, I cried a little (mostly out of frustration), and then he left. My son was there while we 'discussed' this...
So I the next day, I take my son to his grandmother's house - his dad is not my husband, but my son's grandmother and I are friends, so I usually go in for a bit to say hello... and my son's father was also there, and he and I are also friends... so my son proceeds to tell everyone how my husband made me cry the day before... He said, " >husband< yelled at mommy and made her cry!" I was mortified! It was a stupid spat to begin with, but now these people are thinking my new husband and I fight like cats and dogs, IN FRONT of my son! Of course I felt compelled to explain the nature of our 'argument', to which my son's grandmother understandingly replied, "you just have NO privacy with children, do you?"
And you sure don't.
Oh, man! Kids say things that make a mom cringe, huh?? I have not been outed by either kid (to my knowledge, anyway ;), but one time we were in a grocery store when my oldest was about 18 months. She spoke very clearly and very early, and had a huge vocabulary. Kind of a dangerous combo for a toddler! Anyway, she saw a man with a very obvious toupee, pointed at him, and said very loudly, "Mama! That man has a monkey on his head!" and proceeded to make monkey noises. Ohhhhh, I wanted a hole in the ground to open up and swallow me! We turned around and left the store immediately!
Ohhhh yes- especially when kids don't understand how to "white lie" or have the social graces to say things in a way that don't hurt others' feelings. It does come with age, I think, but my 11 yr old still has a ways to go w/this too! You're definitely not alone!
as my ex-husband used to say "Sanyo is listening"...so it's just best to tell the truth..
It's not that you don't like Grandma's pies - you PREFER your mom's.
Well you didn't really lie...just because you like one better doesn't mean that the other one isn't "delicious ".....
These things happen, don't sweat it!
oh my gosh that's so embarrassing. My older daughter does that type of stuff all the time. It's like she has a sense of what I WOULDN'T want her to share and then shares it---at the worst time.
When my daughter was little, I became painfully aware of how often I employed White/polite/social lies, and lies of convenience (Oh, sorry, I can't come because _____). She really got me to clean up my act!
Here's a fabulous article on how we teach our children to lie: http://nymag.com/news/features/43893/
