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ok folks, here's a story for you.
my family decided one day a few years back that i was gay. there was no evidence, nothing really to bring this conclusion about except a few circumstancial pieces of information. for one, i was hanging out with 'weird' kids. this includes, for those that know them, Nathan, Kilt Mike, Bastard Mike, Katy, Johnny, Wesley, Megan, Doran, Katherine, and Sara. What was particularly weird about any of them, I really don't understand. Most of the people are diffently different than the average, but nothing too outside of the norm of today's society. The second piece of evidence that decided this for them is that I love to hang out in the Montrose area of town, a well-known gay community. Its reputation is true for the most part, but dammit, its also a damned interesting part of town. Plus they tend to forget that I mostly traveled to the Magick Cauldron (a pagan/weapon shop), where I am/was decent friends with the owners, and to Numbers Night Club, the same club that they went to when my family was my age.
so anyways, my mother confronted me about this years ago and I set the record straight and we've moved on since. Not another word about it. But apparently my uncle Kirt never got the memo because he still claims to this day that I'm gay and using my girlfriends/wife to cover up this fact.
here's where the story gets good/soap-operay.
my co-worker Juan isn't gay, but my uncle's and grandfather think that he is. I've worked on and off with him for five years now and we've become decent friends. Don't hang out after work but call on holidays type of friends, right? In the five years that I've known him, I've grown up a lot, matured into the adult that I am now, and pretty much have become defiant of my uncle's idiocy and unfairness at work. Hell, Kirt I hate with a passion anyways, but that's a whole 'nother story.
so apparently, Kirt has decided that I became 'defiant and disrespectful' because Juan and I are secret lovers and I'm just following his lead as the older male. Course, this also means that Kirt isn't a bad guy and does all of the right things and that our complaints are just smoke and mirrors brought on by a lousy gay couple.
but wait, it gets better.
My cousin Brandon (yes, I have a cousin who shares my name thats only two years younger than me.) recently joined the company since Kirt is his dad and he figured that Kirt would help him out since Brandon just had his first little one delievered a few months ago. and Brandon now hangs out with Juan after work and prefers to work with him and such.
As of this week, Kirt is doing everything in his power to keep Juan and Brandon seperated, as well as keep me away from Brandon during work hours, because he has apparently decided that Juan and I are seducing Brandon into our foul ways since Brandon has become very vocal about the illegalities and payroll problems at work. Never mind that they take five to ten hours from us a week and never get our checks to the shop till a few days after they are supposed to. No, no, this defience is because Juan and I are turning Brandon gay.
Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm pissed or amused at this. I mean, its such a ludicrus idea that it really tempts me to laugh hysterically. But when my mind starts thinking again, I get really really pissed that my uncle can be such a fucking asshat that he truly believes that.
I mean, its better to believe that your nephew and your son are gay than to admit that you fuck them over in any business deals, right?
Sometimes, I wish that I could disown parts of my family.
my family decided one day a few years back that i was gay. there was no evidence, nothing really to bring this conclusion about except a few circumstancial pieces of information. for one, i was hanging out with 'weird' kids. this includes, for those that know them, Nathan, Kilt Mike, Bastard Mike, Katy, Johnny, Wesley, Megan, Doran, Katherine, and Sara. What was particularly weird about any of them, I really don't understand. Most of the people are diffently different than the average, but nothing too outside of the norm of today's society. The second piece of evidence that decided this for them is that I love to hang out in the Montrose area of town, a well-known gay community. Its reputation is true for the most part, but dammit, its also a damned interesting part of town. Plus they tend to forget that I mostly traveled to the Magick Cauldron (a pagan/weapon shop), where I am/was decent friends with the owners, and to Numbers Night Club, the same club that they went to when my family was my age.
so anyways, my mother confronted me about this years ago and I set the record straight and we've moved on since. Not another word about it. But apparently my uncle Kirt never got the memo because he still claims to this day that I'm gay and using my girlfriends/wife to cover up this fact.
here's where the story gets good/soap-operay.
my co-worker Juan isn't gay, but my uncle's and grandfather think that he is. I've worked on and off with him for five years now and we've become decent friends. Don't hang out after work but call on holidays type of friends, right? In the five years that I've known him, I've grown up a lot, matured into the adult that I am now, and pretty much have become defiant of my uncle's idiocy and unfairness at work. Hell, Kirt I hate with a passion anyways, but that's a whole 'nother story.
so apparently, Kirt has decided that I became 'defiant and disrespectful' because Juan and I are secret lovers and I'm just following his lead as the older male. Course, this also means that Kirt isn't a bad guy and does all of the right things and that our complaints are just smoke and mirrors brought on by a lousy gay couple.
but wait, it gets better.
My cousin Brandon (yes, I have a cousin who shares my name thats only two years younger than me.) recently joined the company since Kirt is his dad and he figured that Kirt would help him out since Brandon just had his first little one delievered a few months ago. and Brandon now hangs out with Juan after work and prefers to work with him and such.
As of this week, Kirt is doing everything in his power to keep Juan and Brandon seperated, as well as keep me away from Brandon during work hours, because he has apparently decided that Juan and I are seducing Brandon into our foul ways since Brandon has become very vocal about the illegalities and payroll problems at work. Never mind that they take five to ten hours from us a week and never get our checks to the shop till a few days after they are supposed to. No, no, this defience is because Juan and I are turning Brandon gay.
Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm pissed or amused at this. I mean, its such a ludicrus idea that it really tempts me to laugh hysterically. But when my mind starts thinking again, I get really really pissed that my uncle can be such a fucking asshat that he truly believes that.
I mean, its better to believe that your nephew and your son are gay than to admit that you fuck them over in any business deals, right?
Sometimes, I wish that I could disown parts of my family.