Do you have a family member that you can't stand?

[Jill1228]

What AOII Alum said--I got a few in my family that are on my isht list

alphagam-alum: ditto baby! We are in the same boat

Originally posted by AOIIalum
In a word, yes.

i can't stand all my uncles (mother's brothers) wives

one is forty, thinks she is eighteen and wears her make up similar to bozo!

one tells me and my cousin all time that my uncle will not be leaving his land to us since she is around (in front of him, mind you)

the other is a perfectionist and super snotty and hardly comes around, because we wear jeans...all the time

and the other one always brags what he buys her and flashes her ghetto fabulous rings all over the place

(he buys us more, but we are not suppose to tell her)

[RedRoseSAI]

In-laws. It's not pretty.

[tinydancer]

Fortunately, it's not a close relation, but my cousin's mother-in-law is such a twit! I have met the woman scads of times, yet each time the family gets together, she comes up and says "I don't believe we've met." She and her husband are also the most unbelivable snobs.

Hell, yeah, we've met - I even went to high school with your oldest daughter.

[wrigley]

Originally posted by AOIIalum
In a word, yes.

Jill1228 is right. AOIIalum says it all.

[MrsMcCartney]

I have an aunt who I love, I really do......but she makes me crazy. She is 14 years older than I and yet I constantly have to be the one to take care of her and give her advice. She is also very self-destructive....she's terrified of getting sick or dying young and yet she refuses to take care of herself. She has been totally paranoid about heart disease ever since my mom (her big sister) died 3 1/2 years ago but she continues to get more and more obese.

She calls me and vents about how unhappy she is about pretty much everything in her life.....it is very depressing. I wish she could be fun like she used to be. I also wish she would take care of herself because she had her kids later in life than my mom did and if she kills herself with food and inactivity they're going to be a lot younger when they lose her than I was.

[MeezDiscreet]

i have an older cousin who is a bit of a weirdo (i won't say i can't stand her). she's the kind that gives A spoon for Christmas or A votive candle. she reuses pancake syrup, which means that there are crumbs of pancake past floating in the bottle. she also hates for people to use more than 2 squares of her toilet paper (which means that when i visit, which aint very often, i don't use her bathroom )

now, i do have a cousin who repulses me. she is 2 years older than me and had 5 kids by age 20 and is a crackhead. she would abandon her kids for days at a time. she's not worthy of motherhood. there's so much i could say, but i won't. i'll just leave it at this: she is NOT welcomed around me or my family.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
i have an older cousin who is a bit of a weirdo (i won't say i can't stand her). she's the kind that gives A spoon for Christmas or A votive candle. she reuses pancake syrup, which means that there are crumbs of pancake past floating in the bottle. she also hates for people to use more than 2 squares of her toilet paper (which means that when i visit, which aint very often, i don't use her bathroom )

now, i do have a cousin who repulses me. she is 2 years older than me and had 5 kids by age 20 and is a crackhead. she would abandon her kids for days at a time. she's not worthy of motherhood. there's so much i could say, but i won't. i'll just leave it at this: she is NOT welcomed around me or my family.

What do you mean reuses pancake syrup? Like she scrapes pancakes with it and puts the syrup back into the bottle? Why doesn't she just use less syrup? Is that even possible?

-Rudey

[CatStarESP4]

I have a few, but I won't tell how they are related to me. All I could see it is a three generation branch in my family tree on my father's side.

[MeezDiscreet]

Originally posted by Rudey
What do you mean reuses pancake syrup? Like she scrapes pancakes with it and puts the syrup back into the bottle? Why doesn't she just use less syrup? Is that even possible?

-Rudey

she scrapes what is left on the plate after pancakes, back into the bottle.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Well, I loved my late uncle, but I am still annoyed that he left all his money to anti-vivisectionists instead of me and my sisters. I really don't get it. What did they do to deserve it? I guess blood isn't that thick. *shrug*

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
she scrapes what is left on the plate after pancakes, back into the bottle.

Ewwwww.

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
Well, I loved my late uncle, but I am still annoyed that he left all his money to anti-vivisectionists instead of me and my sisters. I really don't get it. What did they do to deserve it? I guess blood isn't that thick. *shrug*

Does anyone really "deserve" to get money when someone dies? I'm really not expecting anything when my older relatives die, and they can do what they wish with their money. I can't imagine expecting something because of family relations.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by AOIIalum
In a word, yes.

Yep...same here

[kappaloo]

Originally posted by BetteDavisEyes
My cousin is a pompous self-absorbed twit. She married a pompous self-absorbed lawyer but did not invite any of her family except her parents & 1 brother to her wedding b/c the grooms uppity family did not socialize with "people like us" meaning Latinos. However, she did send us card informing us where she was registered & the address where we could send gifts.

Weird that's very similar to what happened: http://forums.greekchat.com/gcforums...edding+invited ... I wonder if this a prevasive problem.

Back on topic:

Yes... there are family members I can't stand. But it's usually the ones who can't stand me because I went to university and... you know ... did something with my life. Blah.

[Jill1228]

Oh yeah you got family members who drink "Hater-ade" too? The ones who got the "crabs in a basket syndrome"?

"You think you are all that" "Or you think you are better than us because":
a) you went to college b) you have a steady job c)you live in a good neighborhood etc etc etc.

Yup, I guess we are related huh? Welcome to the family, cuz

Originally posted by kappaloo
Weird that's very similar to what happened: http://forums.greekchat.com/gcforums...edding+invited ... I wonder if this a prevasive problem.

Back on topic:

Yes... there are family members I can't stand. But it's usually the ones who can't stand me because I went to university and... you know ... did something with my life. Blah.