Oh my. I know someone who is so much like Hyacinth – my father!
If your answer to this thread is yes: Were you able to enjoy this show or did you cringe at the similarities between your own real-life Hyacinth and the character?
I love this show and wish the series went on longer, but a few instances were so familiar to me that I felt uncomfortably annoyed at not only Hyacinth but her husband for humoring her to no end.
This is what I wrote in another thread on this board:
My sister had a "friend", who stalked her like crazy! She always wanted to hang out with her, and if she said no to her, she said she had to consider her priorities! It didn't help either that her boyfriend was a complete scum. He had all of Onslow's bad sides and none of his good ones. Another friend of my sister's saw him at town one time and immediately understood what a creep he was! After a while, they moved to another town a good bit down south, so we haven't met them in ten years. But she called my sister once on Christmas Eve, insisted on talking to her for an entire hour, and poor sis was completely exhausted afterwards. I doubt this girl held could hold entire town in dread though.
Yes, and this makes for all the more fun to follow Hyacinth and her constanly insufferably continuous antics.
But there just may be a touch of Hyacinth Bouquet in many of us, as we plan our daily strategies weeks and weeks ahead of schedule, knowing exactly what we'll wear that day, and rehearse in our modest boasting.
Hyacinth, therefore, becomes quite the role model to follow, and we do wish that her elaborate schemes would work out for her benefit a bit more often than it would seem because that would benefit many, oh, just all over the place in some of the better social circles, of course.
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oh yes. i know of one, with a spouse to match. poor spouse. thankfully i don't see them much
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My great grandmother was quite a bit like her. She even looked like her.
shareMy mother-in-law is much like Hyacinth. Maybe not quite as from from but definitely on the snob scale. She's 88 and was in advertising and publishing as a career. She's always telling my husband to wear a suit and tie. Part of it is her generation, but much is her general snobbishness. My husband agrees!
shareMy teenagers, always embarrassed by their parents (including our clothes, car, etc.)
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