pet peeve #36

This isn't a big deal.  It just kinda bugs the stinkin' crap outta me.

I have this friend.  Ok, he's actually less a friend now than a blight on my memory, but anyway, I digress.

He has this way of referring to his mom.

Let me first paraphrase the way I think this sentence should be spoken:

     "Well, after my mom passed away, yada yada..."

Now let me demonstrate his technique:

     "Well, after Mom passed away, yada yada..."

What that makes me want to say:

     "Hey you friggin' nimrod, she wasn't my mom.  Unless, I don't know,       was "mom" her birth name?"

Idiot.

When he was more my friend, I'd probably have let that pass, but since he has proven to be more of an assface, not.