Ha! My mom would never use the word flak. I have other odd emails from her, the funny thing is she emails me about something where she is angry, then 5 minutes later sends me something she needs printed out. (She also CC's the emails to my sister and my grandparents in SC (not her parents, mind you, and they like kilts!)

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I've been following this thread since the beginning, and what's really interesting is this crazy, ludicrous emotional roller-coaster ride that some parents seem to thrive on. I just had to "clip n' save" some of the excerpts from Celtic Cowboy's mother's e-mail as well as sathor's mother's mail, because my wife's mother sends the same crap -- just about verbatim! I'm serious, if someone showed me the following snippets and didn't tell me that they weren't from my mother-in-law, I'd wouldn't believe it!
The resemblance is just uncanny!!! The only difference with my wife's family, is that they say these things not about kilt-wearing, but just about us and our lives in general. Here's an excerpt of my own (received 2 wks ago from the m.i.l.):