Well-meaning and ultimately trying to do right by you, but stubbornly refuses to accept how wrong they're getting what is, to you (if we're talking from the perspective of the supervisor) a
painfully obvious fact. Like, say, how if you haven't touched a given object in X amount of time it is almost certainly both A) Right where you left it and B) In the state it was in where you left it.
My LSE mother insists on "checking the stove" even when neither of us has used it that day for example. If neither of us both concretely used it nor had we any reason to even imagine we might have
and the house does not smell like a natural gas leak, then guess what? The stove is still off! No need to obsessively check the dials and all that.
Yet she does. She tests them with her eyes quite thoroughly (and with her hands if I don't act to stop her). As they aren't exactly all that good she demands I use my own decent set to confirm her observations.
I am thankful she at least has me slotted in as an "accredited" authority on things. LSE's are infamous for refusing to trust anyone without "credentials" and yet if they pass that test in their mind they just brainlessly accept it as it were . Thus when I do tell her the truth that no, the stove is not on and that all the doors are indeed locked she actually just accepts that as true and stops worrying. No "certification" required. I guess that's because
is her weakest suit and, as I've been living with her for pretty much my whole life up until adulthood, she learned that if I make a prophecy, despite her misgivings, I should probably be taken seriously in that matter. I get a lot of this shit right BTW.
It's a damned annoying situation to be in. If anyone has a similar story, please share it for the good of our collective understanding and it is, ironically enough, thread relevant. I'd imagine other people who "Supervise" one of their own parents can relate.