I really can't stand that man.
It started out as a joke but he takes everything too seriously. I asked him to save me a piece of shortbread and he said, "No way." So I made a crack about eating bread in front of him during passover and he started off on a tangent about how everyone has to obey the "house rules." I said that I'd eat whatever I liked, and he started getting very upset. My mom pointed out to him that the only reason he was able to enforce that rule was that she can't eat bread, but he ignored her and kept blathering on about "house rules." I told him that sooner or later he's just going to have to accept the fact that I'm not Jewish and he said that I could have any faith I wanted but that I had to obey the house rules. Nevermind that not eating bread during Passover is a Jewish tradition, and that it would have been a nonissue -or at least been fought out years ago-had my mom not been allergic to wheat. So basically he's saying that I can follow any religion I want so long as I'm as Jewish as him. Every year he asks if I'm going to fast on Yom Kippur and every year I say no. I never had a Bar Mitzvah, and now I'm a Christian which is in some ways is even less Jewish than being an atheist. Passover is an important holiday and the exodus is important, but not eating bread for a week is full of shit when I gave up most baked things for a month and a half prior. It's his religion. I don't shove mine down his throat, and all I ask is that he extend the same courtesy to me.