For some reason this reminds me of a girl I went to HS with. To this day her mother washes her laundry, presses the clothes, and puts them together in outfits for this woman and her family. Her mother also does the grocery shopping and prepares meals for this married 44yo woman and her family. Now, it's not like her parents live right next door, they live 2 hours from each other. But every Sunday mom and dad make the trip to deliver the next week's meals and laundry.

I was absolutely flabbergasted to discover that mom is STILL doing all of this. Of course in my shock I made an inappropriate comment to which she replied "we're Italian, you wouldn't understand." You see, this woman was annoyed that her mother was running late with the delivery and was verbalizing this. I was so stunned at the utter lack of appreciation. She just took it all for granted.