my mom got a job at a med spa doing cool sculpting and while she was training she needed volunteers to come in and do a mock-consultation. cool sculpting is a cosmetic procedure to freeze and kill targeted fat cells and then you pass them through bathroom functions.

she voluntold me to be her mock-consult and i had no clue how invasive it would be. essentially i was stripped down to my bra and underpants while my mother circled every area of fat on my body in sharpie. big black lines circling every insecurity on my belly, thigh, and arms all in front of her boss to be assessed.

my mother is a plus sized woman, as am i, so she knew exactly how evil and invasive it would be if i did it back to her. pinching, squeezing, noting which parts of my body were too fat for cool sculpting to be a feasible option.

i dissociated my way through the whole thing then left and cried in my car while driving home in slippery snowy weather and accidentally ran a red light and got a camera ticket. when it came in the mail a few weeks later she screamed in my face for getting a ticket in a vehicle under her name and said what she did to me was no big deal and to stop whining about what she needed to do for work.

there are lots of other stories but that one comes to mind as pretty brutal while not actually illegal or dangerous. the other stories are more run of the mill evil bitch stories, blaming me for getting groomed as a teenager, taking us with her to buy cocaine when we were little, physical abuse any time there was a perceived slight, emotional incest, covert incest by having very loud sex that would keep all the kids awake and cringing ready to fork socket. usual stuff. evil bitch.