I'd kill for a Jetta! My MIL and her (icky) boyfriend have his-n-hers Jetta wagons. REALLY nice cars. There is nothing old-ladyish about them, at all! Enjoy your car...it sounds to me like she's just jealous.

My folks are difficult...and horrible hoarders. I am dreading when they die. I live 10 hours away and that makes day-to-day interactions easy (since there are none), but when I visit I can't get over how awful their living conditions are--entirely by choice. Their stove is unusable, since it's covered in stuff. EVERY horizontal surface is covered...and dust everywhere. I am talking an opaque layer in corners, cracker boxes with dust (who has boxes of Cheeze-Its around long enough to collect dust?!). My siblings and I will need to rent a dumpster to deal with their mess, someday.

My mom is EXACTLY the person I don't ever want to become. Totally sedentary and injury-prone, because she is so out of shape. But she lets her injury ease and asthma keep her from doing things. Her asthma would be a helluvalot better if she didn't live in a dusty house, since that is one of her allergy triggers (as well as cats and mold--and their house is old and they have 3 cats). It's depressing being around her.

She lives to gossip, but because they have no internet she hears everything so late that it's no longer even gossip, then gets irritated when she's not the one delivering some juicy story first (it really makes her nuts that I know things about the locals before she does, ha!).