Your Mom

One day a few months ago I was talking to a woman at work. She asked a question or something, but somehow the conversation lent itself perfectly to an interjection of "Your mom". Only immediately after I said it I realized it was not a well thought reply for many reasons. One there is a generational gap, I'm not even sure she is aware of that phrase in any way. Two, she is over sixty five and the odds that her mother is still alive is not so great. So then I thought, what if she is really sad about her mother not being alive, or what if she didn't even like her mom and feels badly that she isn't sad her mom is not alive. And then I realized that the opportunity to interject "Your mom" into any of my conversations has long since passed. I instantly became the female version of Michael Scott and "That's what she said.", which needless to say made me die a little inside. So I admonish anyone who is reading this to remember that with age comes the responsibility to modify our colloquial speech. Much the same way our clothing styles should accurately portray or age. This is also to nicely inform anyone who is forty one wearing pigtails. Sorry, it just isn't working for you.