Barlibgil
21-06-2005, 05:50
This past weekend, I went to a family reunion, and heard and learned some of the craziest things.
1)Apparently my 72 year-old great-great uncle once threatened to run over his wife at a reunion that I missed(I always knew dementia ran in my family)
2)I heard the word honky-tonkin' for the first time outside of a country music song.
3)Heard the word "cotton-pickin'" multiple times.
4)And I found out that my great aunt might be gay. I don't have a problem with this, but it's weird not to have known.
5)Discovered that meeting people who knew you from before you remember being alive is a strange experience.
6)Learned that both sides of my family are 1) strange 2) loud 3)opinionated.
7)Listening to four female senior citizens shout each other down trying to tell a story can be an entertaining.
8)That hotels can still have twin beds.
9)It's gross not being able to shower.
10)Sleeping in a moving vehicle is less than half as resting as sleeping in a bed.
11)The men on my mom's side of the family are incredibly unlucky.(I was one of four guys there, Well five. I didn't include my second cousin Noah, who's like 6, and pronounces "locusts" as "woe-kists".)
12)That my second cousin Sarah was named by her sister Miranda.(They didn't have a name fopr Sarah when she was born, and the nurse who helped deliver her was named Sarah. Every time someone asked Miranda what her sister's name was she told them "Sarah", so her parents just named her Sarah)
14)That the second cousin who once convinced me and my sister that eating grass made your eyes turn green, is actually a lot older than me than I remember.
15)My family is dying out. On my dad's side, fewer kids are born each generation; and on my mom's more people die than have kids.
I'm gonna stop there. I don't really know why I posted this. Well, I guess it could be a pointless "about my family" or "family reunions" thread, or something.
1)Apparently my 72 year-old great-great uncle once threatened to run over his wife at a reunion that I missed(I always knew dementia ran in my family)
2)I heard the word honky-tonkin' for the first time outside of a country music song.
3)Heard the word "cotton-pickin'" multiple times.
4)And I found out that my great aunt might be gay. I don't have a problem with this, but it's weird not to have known.
5)Discovered that meeting people who knew you from before you remember being alive is a strange experience.
6)Learned that both sides of my family are 1) strange 2) loud 3)opinionated.
7)Listening to four female senior citizens shout each other down trying to tell a story can be an entertaining.
8)That hotels can still have twin beds.
9)It's gross not being able to shower.
10)Sleeping in a moving vehicle is less than half as resting as sleeping in a bed.
11)The men on my mom's side of the family are incredibly unlucky.(I was one of four guys there, Well five. I didn't include my second cousin Noah, who's like 6, and pronounces "locusts" as "woe-kists".)
12)That my second cousin Sarah was named by her sister Miranda.(They didn't have a name fopr Sarah when she was born, and the nurse who helped deliver her was named Sarah. Every time someone asked Miranda what her sister's name was she told them "Sarah", so her parents just named her Sarah)
14)That the second cousin who once convinced me and my sister that eating grass made your eyes turn green, is actually a lot older than me than I remember.
15)My family is dying out. On my dad's side, fewer kids are born each generation; and on my mom's more people die than have kids.
I'm gonna stop there. I don't really know why I posted this. Well, I guess it could be a pointless "about my family" or "family reunions" thread, or something.