Families and drama
So, as I mentioned, we had a perfectly marvelous time on vacation. But aparently my larger than life sister in law did not. She feels that she offended Kirk in some way and had been the butt of his jokes for much of the week.
This came as a total shock to me when I recieved the phone call from my brother last night. Checking with Kirk I informed them that no, they were mistaken, and asked why did she say that? She and my brother were unable to point to anything specific, just noted "sarcastic comments". Said no, nothing of the sort had happened and offered apologies for any intended slights.
Later that evening Larger Than Life Sister in law posted publicly on FB that she would not allow others to treat her in such a shabby manner. She may not be pretty, skinny, smart, etc., etc., etc., but she's a human and deserves to be treated as such. I responded back and said that he is completely mystified by what she's saying but apologizes again for any percieved slights. I explain that he's a geek and an engineer and as such is not completely socially ept in situations where he doesn't really know someone.
She responded with basically a "yes, but he did it repeatedly???!?!?!!" kind of comeback.
At that point her dear, charming family chimed in with her best friend saying "I'll be your BFF no matter what mister stinky face thinks of you", and her brother posted "just tell him you have a bunch of brothers that can take care of him" kind of thing. I see that it's getting out of control and point out that we things are beginning to look a bit like the Hatfields and the McCoy's and really, shouldn't she just give him a call to straighten this all out rather than drag the name of a good man through the mud?
Her response: "Well, I didn't actually mention his *name*!"
Me: "Yes you did when your husband called me last night, and you didn't deny it when I wrote his name in the comments section further up the chain. Please call him and get this straightened out so that we can put this all behind us and it doesn't damage the family relationship."
I didn't expect what followed.
She deleted the entire string of comments and said "Well, I'll never post that kind of thing again, it just comes around to bite me!" And her family still thinks my husband is dirt and I am left a bit bemused and really pissed off.
I don't think I like her anymore, and I feel nothing but sadness for my brother.