I've noticed a few subtle hints in some things my mom has said to me. I'll let you figure out the message.
1. This happened a few years ago, don't remember when. But it was at dinner and one of my sisters was saying something about catching a Pokémon in a Poké Ball, to which I said it would be better to use a Great Ball or an Ultra Ball. My mom said something along the lines of "maybe it's a good thing she didn't know that."
2. This happened maybe last week or the week before. I was trying to write a college essay and the prompt was to tell something special about you. I asked my mom for some help, and she gave me some ideas. One thing she said was "oh, you can tell them 'I like to dress as Pokémon.'" (The irony is that she had, and still has, no idea that I was planning to dress as Sylveon for Halloween.) Then she said either "I'm kidding, that's probably not what they want to hear." or "I'm kidding, they're probably gonna think you're weird."
3. This happened on Sunday actually. But first, I have to tell a story within a story.
I went trick or treating with my 2nd-youngest sister, because my other 2 sisters were with their friends. We don't have too much in common. She's the sister who never liked Pokémon. I felt kinda bad since her foot was hurting because some girl stomped on it at her soccer game, but she still went with me anyway. The first house we went to had some strange tower thing in front of their house and we couldn't tell what it was supposed to be from a distance. Turns out, it was some kind of tube thing that the people in front of that house would drop candy into. They had us hold our candy bags at the end of the tube, and they dropped the candy in. They said "This is how we maintain social distancing!" I said "Wow, that's very innovative!" but they didn't respond.
My sister and I told my mom this. I told her that they didn't respond to my comment. My mom said "They were probably thinking 'If she knows how to use the word "innovative" then she's probably too old to be trick or treating.'" That comment was so incredibly blatant that I stared at her for a few seconds.
I love my mom, but it's comments like these that really offend me. Maybe there were some other examples of sly remarks like these, but these are the ones that have resonated with me.
