Parental pet peeve

Okay, just gotta get this one off my chest... dontcha hate when (often) one of your parents emails you to ask for a bunch of information, you answer by email and then that parent calls and asks the same question again without having checked email? Grrrr. My father does this all too frequently.

And it's annoying. First, because I already went through the effort to write out an answer by email which, second, that he didn't even bother to look for. Third, then I become either very frustrated for having to go through it all over again on the phone or else feel very small for telling him "read your email!" Because it really seems petty to say the latter, but when your dad makes a habit of doing this, it's. just. plain. aggravating.

Another favorite trick of his? Ask for info. Promptly lose it (or be too lazy to look for it). Ask again for the same info. Then pull the above stunt with the phone call.

/rant