My mother-in-law says that to my wife

by Brendan , The Chemical and Oil Refinery State, Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 13:33 (3997 days ago) @ HumanRobot

My wife is a 5th grade teacher. Every time she says something about having to put a lesson plan together at night or spend every night for a week writing report card comments, her mother will chime in with something like "oh, boo hoo, give me two months of vacation and holidays off and see if I complain."

She sells it as trying to be funny, but it's pretty clearly passive-aggressive and I think my wife is going to knife her someday. Not even all the people close to the teachers really have any concept of how hard they work at it and the sacrifices they make. She has a master's degree and she's making half of what she could in private enterprise - and at one of the better-paying districts in the area.

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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." - Yeats