u/Meredith-yng

I spent the weekend with my mom after not seeing her for a year and a half due to us living in different states. My sister graduated this weekend and she came up for the ceremony and stayed for 5 days. This is the only graduation ceremony she’s attended of all three of her kids graduating college. The entire weekend everything that came out of her mouth was a comment about herself or just an observation about something that was happening. My boyfriend noticed it too. She didn’t ask me or my sister anything about what’s been going on in our lives or how we’ve been. I barely talk to her as is so we haven’t spoken on the phone in months either and when she texts me it’s usually her telling me about something she’s doing at work or a picture of herself. Yesterday she made a joke when I was on the phone with my sister about me “being her mom” after I made a suggestion that my sister take her to the airport early before she has to work so my mom wouldn’t need to spend $50 on an uber. I don’t want to parent my parent and at this point I’ve accepted that I’ll never have a meaningful relationship with her. The cherry on top was last night I got this text and I truly don’t know how to respond.

I recently got an old sticker vending machine that I’m refurbishing and these locks came with it but with no keys. I want to either get new locks like this or find a way to get a key made for them but I can’t figure out what I should search for these locks. I forgot to take a picture of the back but it’s a threaded hole and can add a picture later when I’m home if needed. Thank you in advance!