Relative Pettiness
They sound like democrats! I think I will email the Chinese to point out the CO2 scam is a plot against them, Obama is hocking the family silver to them then intends to bankrupt them by getting the western world to shun their products because they emit too much CO2, crashing their currency and saving the USA. There did that cheer you up a bit?
Posted by Chris Edwards
11/30/2009 at 05:56 PM
It’s incredibly poor manners to say something like that to someone who was kind enough to bring contributions to the dinner. Especially handmade contributions. What a boorish lout. I’d never bring another single thing. Not wine, not homemade, not storeboughten. The only reason I’d attend anything at that house again would be to keep peace with the wife.
Posted by Nicole
11/30/2009 at 05:57 PM
Wow. It amazes me how petty some people can be, especially relatives. However…
My ex-stepmother is worse. She was a family friend for years. 8 years after Mom passed away (1992), her and Dad decided to be married. She turned out to be the sorriest, nastiest woman I have ever seen, self-centered and to hell with everyone else.. Dad got lymphoma and eventually died from it about 18 months from the time it was found. I am still amazed that my brother-in-law did not kick the living shit out of her for the crap she pulled. He was bedridden the last several months and she didn’t do squat for him. It was all about her. I have not spoken to her nor seen her since the funeral and neither has my sister’s family. And she has the nerve to wonder why.
Well, we had a great Thanksgiving with my wife’s Mother, Aunt and Uncle. No stress, no arguments and no bad feelings. And for my wife’s side of the family, that’s really saying something!
Drew, you’re a better man than moi! I’d have shot that turd back an email that would have left no margin for error as to exactly what I thought of the petty bastard, along with the solemn advice NEVER to bother inviting me to ANY event they are involved in, up to and including their damned funeral!
Families can be worse than organized religion.
Now you see why I am at odds with my family - however it wasn’t something so simple as a family dinner and leftovers (that was the last one with my (now) two dead siblings - who’d thunk that me, the sickly one, might outlive them all?!?). Anyway all I got (from quite well to do) MY relatives when my son was horribly burned was - How terrible, if you need anything give me a call -
Meanwhile the day AFTER my hubby’s mom & 1 sister were already there and another sister came about a month later - not to mention the kids Godparents were there in the spring (3 daughters in tow).
And icing on the cake - when my older son came home from Iraq (2003-2004) - once again - just a phone call yet when the brothers son came home (2006) - my mom threw a party.
And they still wonder why I do nothing with them. I can pick up a phone too - doesn’t mean I give a damn at all.
Difference between previous years and the current year? Economic downturn… Suddenly everyone is watching their pennies and is sensitive to anything going out the door, whether it’s sane as a concern, or not.
As to your points at the end: Yeah, that’s about what my mindset would be too. I wonder if the FIL’s wife bothered to check with him at all before she sent that email to you? Probably not, or he would have told her to let it go, I’m bettin’…
Drew, message from the wife.
Any time you feel like cooking, you can send us the stuffing and the cheese cake (wife’s favorite) ... and we’ll send you the bottle of wine.
I’m letting this go, trying to slough it off. But family can certainly be annoying sometimes.
As I tell my wife, “nobody can push your buttons better than the people that installed them!”
Drew, I like that little saying. Of course it works the same way with kids, but reversed. You installed their buttons, but they know which ones of yours to push!
Funny what you can get with just those two little words isnt it. ‘I Do’ gets you people that you wouldnt piss on in the street giving you the Amy Vanderbilt routine.HEHEHE!!
12/01/2009 at 08:07 AM
