Family throwdown
Quick update before I pass out
We went up to Killeen today for my grandmother's 80th birthday, my uncle was coming down from Dallas with his son and my Aunt from Gatesville came with her Fiance (who groped me at her son's wedding - but that's a story for another day), and my Uncle and his wife from San Antonio. The rest of the family was smart enough not to come, because you seriously cannot escape a family function with these people without there being some sort of altercation.
In the past we've even had to have the police involved... yes we're those sort of Texans (well I won't say we, but they are.)
Today they were doing so well, I think it was partially because my uncle (their brother) died so suddenly recently and they've all sort of pretended to realize that life is too short to be idiots at every family gathering.
We had a little memorial service for my Uncle, for those who didn't get to go to the actual funeral, and that went fine and we went to lunch and back to g-mom's house for the rest of the afternoon and that all went fine, and then we went out to the special birthday dinner. Thankfully we got the party room at the place we went so we weren't in the main restaurant because I would have been even more mortified about what happened if we hadn't.
Dinner was mostly fine, apart from the stupid issue with my Aunt's fiance trying to rip off the place to get a free meal and then her adding to it to get her's comp-ed as well, until until it happened.
They had been doing so well - I started to hope that maybe for the first time in history we could get through a family affair without the police being called or anyone screaming at anyone else, but no.
My cousin showed up to wish grandma happy birthday and say hi to the people who came into town. He offered his hand to our uncle who refused to shake his hand, because of an incident involving the two of them and the police being called and a lot of court fees several years ago, and my Aunt, his mother, got so suddenly mad at our uncle. And it just escalated from a nice dinner to yelling at one another and calling each other fucking assholes in front of the wait staff who had been helping our very large group with putting things into boxes so we could leave.
They all looked mortified and tried to keep working like there wasn't a shouting match going on right in front of their faces, and god I just felt so bad for them I mean no amount of added on tip would be enough for them to have to deal with the idiots that are a part of my family. And as soon as the shouting started my mother stood up and my siblings and I were out of there we didn't say good bye to anyone we just paid as quickly as we could and left so they could be idiots all the wanted without us being there.
It was so close to a nice day with the family, but yeah that's an impossibility.
And now to pass out for my brain is dead.
We went up to Killeen today for my grandmother's 80th birthday, my uncle was coming down from Dallas with his son and my Aunt from Gatesville came with her Fiance (who groped me at her son's wedding - but that's a story for another day), and my Uncle and his wife from San Antonio. The rest of the family was smart enough not to come, because you seriously cannot escape a family function with these people without there being some sort of altercation.
In the past we've even had to have the police involved... yes we're those sort of Texans (well I won't say we, but they are.)
Today they were doing so well, I think it was partially because my uncle (their brother) died so suddenly recently and they've all sort of pretended to realize that life is too short to be idiots at every family gathering.
We had a little memorial service for my Uncle, for those who didn't get to go to the actual funeral, and that went fine and we went to lunch and back to g-mom's house for the rest of the afternoon and that all went fine, and then we went out to the special birthday dinner. Thankfully we got the party room at the place we went so we weren't in the main restaurant because I would have been even more mortified about what happened if we hadn't.
Dinner was mostly fine, apart from the stupid issue with my Aunt's fiance trying to rip off the place to get a free meal and then her adding to it to get her's comp-ed as well, until until it happened.
They had been doing so well - I started to hope that maybe for the first time in history we could get through a family affair without the police being called or anyone screaming at anyone else, but no.
My cousin showed up to wish grandma happy birthday and say hi to the people who came into town. He offered his hand to our uncle who refused to shake his hand, because of an incident involving the two of them and the police being called and a lot of court fees several years ago, and my Aunt, his mother, got so suddenly mad at our uncle. And it just escalated from a nice dinner to yelling at one another and calling each other fucking assholes in front of the wait staff who had been helping our very large group with putting things into boxes so we could leave.
They all looked mortified and tried to keep working like there wasn't a shouting match going on right in front of their faces, and god I just felt so bad for them I mean no amount of added on tip would be enough for them to have to deal with the idiots that are a part of my family. And as soon as the shouting started my mother stood up and my siblings and I were out of there we didn't say good bye to anyone we just paid as quickly as we could and left so they could be idiots all the wanted without us being there.
It was so close to a nice day with the family, but yeah that's an impossibility.
And now to pass out for my brain is dead.