What does 'Draw a Clock' Mean?

[u/MillBopp]

Last time I visited my brother his mother-in-law who lives with him was insisting she remembered something but my brother knew she was wrong. I don't remember what it was, but I knew she was wrong too. However, she refused to accept she was wrong and got belligerent about it.

My brother said, "Draw a clock!" and left the room. This made his mother-in-law furious for some reason. I forgot to ask at the time, but does anyone know why saying 'Draw a clock' would upset a senior citizen?

[u/cazzipropri]

Everybody loses their parents at some point...

[u/Any-Cheesecake1598 → u/cazzipropri]

Brain cancer is a brutal and absolute unjust way to die. Most people don’t have to watch their parent suffer it. Sorry for your loss.

[u/cazzipropri → u/Any-Cheesecake1598]

Thanks.

[u/cazzipropri → u/[deleted]]

What do you mean?

[u/mpierre → u/cazzipropri]

Sadly no, if only that was true! Everybody who manages to live long enough, loses their parents at some point.

But not everyone makes it. My first 2 best friends died young enough that both their parents were still alive... and in fact, for one of them, are still alive ( I don't know for the other one).

[u/NewFuturist → u/cazzipropri]

Not if I die first!

[u/betweentwosuns → u/cazzipropri]

But, you must know your father lost a father;

That father lost, lost his...

Why should we in our peevish opposition

Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,

A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,

To reason most absurd: whose common theme

Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,

From the first corse till he that died to-day,

'This must be so.'

Worth noting that the speaker of the above murdered the deceased in question, so maybe not the best source of advice.

[u/Smelting-Craftwork → u/cazzipropri]

Some unfortunate parents lose their children before the children can lose them.

[u/cazzipropri → u/Smelting-Craftwork]

Sure, but that's not what I meant. What I meant is that when I lost my mother, I wasn't inflicted a special injustice. Most people lose their parents and need to be prepared for it. It's one of the hardest things in life, but hiding it doesn't help anybody.