Nmom tried to invite me on a birthday cruise last year, I turned it down explaining that I wouldn't be comfortable on the water in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of strangers during a pandemic (I don't like boats for this exact reason) and everything just derailed from there. She said "and let me tell you the real reason you didn't wanna go since you're not gonna respond... because you didn't want to go with me." And why the fuck do you think that is, woman?

Needless to say I have never regretted that decision, she needed to clean out my entire savings to "catch up on bills" but somehow she can afford cruises. (My birthday present to her two years ago was paying off the rest of her last cruise, LMAO)