>>42343417It's nothing particularly funny, though.
The context is that she's mentally ill and it's impossible to please her. Still, I already knew it was going to be her last birthday before we'll cut ties at the turn of the year, so I wanted to show some goodwill.
I think she was insulted by me having baked two lemon loaves at once for practical reasons: one for her, and a lactose-free one for my workplace which I'm about to leave. She let me know that she won't even try the cake and I could immediately bag it for work. That was on Tuesday morning. She's been showing me the cold shoulder since, as well as refusing to be in the same room as me. It's not 4D chess to make cutting ties easier for us because she's too dull for such a strategy; she just hates all of her children for "failing her" somehow.
She views herself as this poor little victim, but she's the most toxic person imaginable and has zero self-awareness. She's abusive, irrational, spiteful and entitled, but she's still the only mother I had, so I baked her a cake. Trusty ol' Rarity's lemon loaf recipe. Now I know I don't have a mother anymore.
