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Post by andi9899 on Mar 27, 2015 18:22:03 GMT -5
One of my brothers almost got his big toe with a circular saw. We were working on my mom's new porch. He was cutting stair risers using a saw with no guard. Finished a cut and set the saw down to move the board, while the blade was still spinning down. Set it down on his foot, instead of next to it. Cut right through his boot, and the blade stopped spinning with one tooth an eighth of inch into his big toe. A little more oomph and it would have been an ER trip with possibly the dumbest explanation for an injury that a doc had ever seen. This is my smart brother, believe it or not, but he can be fairly absent minded while absorbed in a project. Many years ago, an uncle (not the Maury uncle) was cutting wood in my great grandmother's back yard with an axe. He hit a clothes line and the ax came back and hit him (blunt end) in the head. My mom happened to be home and we lived next door. She took him to the ER where he got many people laughing at him along with a few stitches. To this day we will sometimes start conversations with him with "Let me axe you a question".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2015 18:45:10 GMT -5
Daughter wanted to have my (ex?) stepsister over tonight. (They are the same age.) Stepsister is at her dads so I texted and asked him if it was ok. He preferred not since he hadn't seen the girl in six weeks because most recent stepmother was 'punishing him' because he took most recent stepmother's father to MY Dad's in Florida to fish for a week. ... Yes, my father got most recent stepmother's ex husband in the divorce...
When I was in my 20s I hung out with a guy and we used to cultivate our similar appearance because we liked when people asked us if we were siblings, so that we could say, no... but my father's current wife's ex husband once had an affair with his stepfather's ex wife...
I have a cousin who is finally employed again! Yay. After serving time because when one of the mother of his children refused to let him pick up his daughter for Christmas, he said he'd go down to the school and get her and no one would stop him (not long after the last major school shooting).... he's a loud mouth some times, but not really dangerous. Despite the lockdown she called in, he never went near the school... the cops picked him up at the Adult Boutique outside of town.
A friend just learned my maiden name, surprised it was the same as her mothers and wondered if we were related. I said that side of my family is traced pretty well, and I didn't know all the details, but was aware the first one on continent jumped a prisoner ship...
Want more? I can't keep up with all the ex's and step's.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2015 18:47:08 GMT -5
Tell me about it.
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Post by geenamercile on Mar 27, 2015 19:04:25 GMT -5
It's weird like that, but I agree - the more I distance myself from the crazy relatives, the more mellow my life is and the fewer interesting stories I have to tell.
I think I'm OK with the tradeoff.
Don't you have any neighbors? They're often a source of entertainment. Or dang, you practice law in a small community, that has got to be good for some stories. I think my parents still have a whole in their roof from when the tree fell several years ago. Don't know if they still have the copper heads in the house. Oh and my mom and dad have been together since my mom got out of Jail what was it 3 years ago.
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Mar 28, 2015 7:57:59 GMT -5
Oh god, I have so many stories! I have a cousin who married this crazy woman (about ten years ago). They got married about two months before DH and I did. She did not come to our wedding and it got worse from there. They would fight, she would cheat and then come crawling back around the holidays so she and her daughter (not by her husband) would have a good Christmas, then she would go back to her old ways. Rinse and repeat for five or six years... He finally divorces her but is still entagled with her crazy shit (and she is now doing drugs, homless, kid gets bounced around). Now cousin is spending time with ex stepdaughter who is about 17 or 18 and just the right age that cousin will want to start dating her. He likes em young and gets way to close to women with teenage daughters. I'll post more later, cousin has a sister, and then there is my mother.
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Post by toomuchreality on Mar 28, 2015 9:38:15 GMT -5
Gratefully, I got nothin. But the rest of you... You post 'em and I'll read 'em!
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Post by sesfw on Mar 28, 2015 10:07:14 GMT -5
I think I MAY have something positive.
Mom took care of (bailed out) baby brother all of his life He is now 64, inherited a trust of more than $100K and a paid-for manufactured home after mom passed in 2001. He went thru the trust in 3 years and lost the home from non-payment of tax/license. Only thing he has to show for all of this is a CDL.
Saw him about a month ago and he is buying his own truck, putting funds in savings and is starting to build his credit rating. A year ago his rating was around 540, it is now in the high 600s. He enjoys driving and wants to stay on the road as long as he can. Fortunately he is a non-drinker, non drugs, and non smoker.
There is hope.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2015 10:51:56 GMT -5
Ok, I can throw at least one cousin into the mix. He's always been a bit of a lost soul but he did manage to get a job (well my aunt got him the job where she works) and a nice little one bedroom basement apartment and had a bit of stability going. Then he gets a GF that has 2 kids that are in care, she has no job. She gets a job at Tim Horton's but gets fired, that is really an accomplishment. She uses him for what little money he has and won't get a job herself. Last year she talked him into moving an hour out of town, to a place with no real employment opportunities so he has over an hour commute each way. On the commute he gets speeding tickets which he doesn't pay, so his license gets suspended. Which means he now has a 2 hour commute each way on the bus. Guess who quits his job. In the meantime he is hitting my aunt up for money. Did I mention the aunt is retired and does not have a huge income herself? And that her husband has a son with a similar story.
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Post by thyme4change on Mar 28, 2015 10:54:47 GMT -5
swamp - I don't have any irresponsible family either. We need to start a club: "I can from a functional family!" Boring.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2015 10:57:58 GMT -5
swamp and thyme4change, every family has the crazy one. If you look around and it isn't any of them....
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Post by mmhmm on Mar 28, 2015 11:02:40 GMT -5
Since mother passed away and my brother has become a non-entity as far as I'm concerned, I'm pretty boring, too. No nuts in the family. Even the neighbors are sane! While it is conducive to a calm, quiet existence, I do so enjoy reading others' tales of family happenings!
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Post by thyme4change on Mar 28, 2015 11:19:43 GMT -5
swamp and thyme4change, every family has the crazy one. If you look around and it isn't any of them.... LOL - It sucks being part of my family. I am a very successful, educated and reasonable person, and I'm still the "loser" of my family. Oh, and I weigh 140 pounds, and I'm the fat one. Seriously?? I could cast a wider net, and I include my Uncle. He had to move in my Grandmother, and then siphoned off her money so he would have something when she died. My mother found out after my g-ma died, and to keep the peace she gave him half the equity from the house. My husband's family isn't flush - but they are all making do. They just live simply, and go with it. No crazy stories. At least not yet. Who knows, maybe my BIL will move in with my MIL and after she dies we will find out he siphoned off all the money - but somehow I doubt that. He is fairly unhealthy, so I am thinking he will die before he has to worry about retirement or anything like that. (Plus...he has a pension.)
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Post by swamp on Mar 28, 2015 11:26:09 GMT -5
I have a few random cousins who aren't quite all there, but still aren't horribly interesting. Most of them are pretty boring middle class like me.
My BIL's suck, and have their own trainwreckiness, but not horrible either.
I have an uncle that has been divorced 4 times, but he's a YM'er through and through.
I hear you on that one. According to the IQ scores, I'm the dumb one. My brother isn't setting things on fire, though, but he gets by. And he's heavier than me. But compared to my sister, I'm ugly, fat, short, and a slacker.
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Post by NastyWoman on Mar 28, 2015 15:10:30 GMT -5
swamp - I don't have any irresponsible family either. We need to start a club: "I can from a functional family!" Boring. I want in. I get my kicks from this board. For anything more I would need to go back more than a century and that just doesn't quite do it.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Mar 28, 2015 16:14:34 GMT -5
My life is a mini train wreck but it's somewhat manageable. I do have some problematic family members but the biggest train wreck by far is still my ex-SIL. I've mentioned her before... In a nutshell, her problem is doing all kinds of manipulation and stupid things to keep her loser of a husband around. He should have never been more than a fling because he is one of the biggest wastes of space I have ever met.
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Post by cael on Mar 28, 2015 20:38:43 GMT -5
My MIL asked my husband for money on his birthday, he finally told her it pissed him off and all she did was basically huff at him for not calling her more, and didn't apologizey. She left him a voicemail the next day saying maybe she shouldn't have asked him that, and that maybe he was right about a few things, but he hasn't talked to her since because he doesn't want to, and i'm not going to try to make him call her because quite frankly, he has no reason to even want to call her more, and if he doesn't want to, he damn well shouldn't. My own dear mother had a minor nutty on me today, because I told her after dinner on Easter I would be finishing writing a big paper that's due 5 days later. She kept pushing that it was a holiday and she wanted me to spend time with my family. Apparently me telling her that I was going to church with them and having dinner with them is not enough. Mind you if I sit and like, stare at my brother, mother and father all day on a holiday I'm usually feeling like jumping out a window after. She brought it up again later, and I asked her if she wanted me to repeat the same things to her again, and she gave up (for now). I am wondering how she'll react when I tell her we're planning to go away for Christmas next year just by ourselves.... maybe I'm a jerk but if that's what we want to do as adults, that's what we'll do. My brother, who can't afford his rent or gas money to get to work and has driven my parents' second car for 1.5yrs with no plans for if/when it dies, went to Nova Scotia with his girlfriend's family and took several days off for it, so he'll probably be here next week asking my parents for gas money, which they'll give him and try to not us notice. He's almost 30. My parents refuse to listen to anyone (ahem..me) telling them that they're being enablers. My husband had to gas the car up for him two weeks ago so he could get to work and back to his apartment.... couldn't pay my husband back but still went to NS. (DH only gassed the car up because if he hadn't, brother would've been stuck here at the house and seriously neither of us can even deal with it) DH's desire to move to Colorado sounds more and more appealing with every day that goes by. how's that for ya Swamp?
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Post by msventoux on Mar 29, 2015 4:02:42 GMT -5
My parents had been married for over 40 years when my mother passed away. My father called my sibling with the news that he had a girlfriend and was staying with her out of state for a few months. On siblings birthday. Just a couple of months after Mom died. And the rest of the family was expected to watch his house and animals that he abandoned in the house for almost a week before letting anyone know he was gone.
And my sibling found out via Facebook that my father remarried a few months after that. And not to the original girlfriend, but someone no one in the family had ever met or heard of.
I'm so glad I cut off contact with my father so I no longer have to deal with his BS.
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Post by happyhoix on Mar 30, 2015 7:29:56 GMT -5
Our family has the same baby sister issues (baby sister is now almost 50). Mom totally caused this by catering to her and making sure she always got what she wanted and was never obligated to do anything she didn't want to do. No one else in the family mattered, not even our Dad - just Baby. Now as an adult, little sister can't keep a job for more than a couple years (convinced her boss hates her and her co-workers are being mean to her - this is EVERY SINGLE JOB she's had since college). Has tearful melt downs when anyone so much as looks at her funny - when our mom got sick a while back, little sister was having melt downs every single visit to the hospital because of the social worker, the nurses, the security people, my mom's room mate or my mom (or any combination of above) were being mean to her. Sitting in her car in the parking lot in hysterics calling either me or our other sister to wail about how everyone is mean to her all the time and how she just can't handle it.
At this point, she's cut off from everyone in our family, and since she believes her DH's family is mean to her, too, I don't think they have much to do with her, either. I feel bad for her kids not to have a good relationship with any of their aunts or uncles, but damn, I don't miss the constant drama.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Mar 30, 2015 8:47:48 GMT -5
Here's my current one: My not-yet-21 SIL (Rainbow), is planning on moving herself, my 2yo nephew and all her stuff to Nevada to be with her boyfriend. Boyfriend is not babydaddy (thank god he's not in the picture). She knows Boyfriend from before she got together with babydaddy. I have no idea what he does for a living or if he's helping with the move or what. Where she currently lives she has, a job with minimal benefits, a massive support structure (My inlaws, her dad's family and even babydaddy's family has stepped up some even though he's not in the picture), an affordable apartment and sitters to watch nephew while she works. Where's she's going is just Boyfriend. Just gonna have to let her make this mistake It might be a mistake, it might work out wishing her the best here..... Yeah, hoping so. But since they started dating, they haven't been in the same physical location, not even for a visit. So now she's giving up everything and toting her baby out there. I hope it works out, because if it doesn't, it's going to be a total mess and the family's going to be stuck figuring out how to get her home.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 30, 2015 8:56:24 GMT -5
I don't have family trainwreck stories to tell. I'm boring.
Entertain me with yours. But you at least have the potential for family trainwreck. Except for my son, I don't have any family And if he turns into a train wreck at his age I won't have any family period
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 30, 2015 10:20:45 GMT -5
DH has a cousin that married this girl, had a kid (or 2, I lose track) then the girl left him for his sister. She eventually came back to the cousin but the story was that they all had herpes. Girl eventually left the cousin and when my BIL and his wife had problems and split a year or so ago, he dated the cousin's ex wife. All my info is 3rd hand but I did actually see the ex wife with BIL once and had no clue that was her. I try to stay far far away from that bunch. BIL has a habit of dating DH's rejects. His first wife was one that tried to hit on DH first but I was already around. (She told me DH was her first choice, but you never know if she was just trying to start crap) BIL's current wife went out with DH briefly in HS.
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Mar 30, 2015 10:55:21 GMT -5
Awww, here's the world's smallest violin playing a song for you... DB took my mom's minivan in to get an exhaust leak fixed. He told me he would pay for it ($150), because he had a hospital bill ($300+) that my mom could help him with.. Umm, why would mom pay for your hospital bill?? She just gave him a $1000 to pay for his daughter's braces, $350 of which has gone to pay for them so far... In a week, he's taking the kids to Great Wolf Lodge 3.5 hrs away for a couple days. He's "obviously" taking my mother's minivan there--he's not about to take his truck all that way! Why would he do that <Let us now reflect on everything that is wrong with that picture> (Sometimes, I really want to call the cops on him for stealing my mom's minivan, but I know she'd never press charges. ) Holy crap, Wolf Lodge is like $200-350/nt.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 30, 2015 11:02:00 GMT -5
Awww, here's the world's smallest violin playing a song for you... DB took my mom's minivan in to get an exhaust leak fixed. He told me he would pay for it ($150), because he had a hospital bill ($300+) that my mom could help him with.. Umm, why would mom pay for your hospital bill?? She just gave him a $1000 to pay for his daughter's braces, $350 of which has gone to pay for them so far... In a week, he's taking the kids to Great Wolf Lodge 3.5 hrs away for a couple days. He's "obviously" taking my mother's minivan there--he's not about to take his truck all that way! Why would he do that <Let us now reflect on everything that is wrong with that picture> (Sometimes, I really want to call the cops on him for stealing my mom's minivan, but I know she'd never press charges. ) Holy crap, Wolf Lodge is like $200-350/nt. His ex wife got a deal for $100/night. She had to work, so couldnt use it. She asked DB if he wanted to use the discount to take the kids. I was wrong on the dates--he actually left yesterday... And I get to go feed and let his dog out to boot.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 30, 2015 11:34:51 GMT -5
DB's EW: where to begin? She put my brother through hell when she left him. Got one PPO after another against him, despite his never having threatened her at all. (Harassed? Probably.) When she left him, she immediately moved in with some guy, taking their 3 kids with her. She left that guy, and moved in immediately with another guy. Filed for bankruptcy, apparently married the guy just 3 weeks after he discovered she was cheating on him. Recently bought a house with an indoor pool. I have no idea how she could qualify for a mortgage just a couple years after filing. Anyway, she won $10k at the casino, and the house was only $150k. Recently, her new husband discovered she was cheating on him again. He's a long haul trucker, so wasn't around for weeks at a time. He filed for divorce, and she's crying her eyes out one day. literally, the very next she's seeing yet another guy extensively/seriously? Not sure the weird to use. Screwing. . My brother is now getting along fantastically with EW, when 2 months ago he was the devil, according to her. EW is working 80 hr's/week to keep the house and pay the utilities. She makes $20ish/hr.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Mar 30, 2015 12:00:29 GMT -5
From this week's PostSecret:
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Post by MJ2.0 on Mar 30, 2015 12:23:14 GMT -5
Well last night I had a front row ticket to a domestic violence incident between someone I'm kinda seeing and his roommate. So there's that....
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Mar 30, 2015 12:25:25 GMT -5
Well last night I had a front row ticket to a domestic violence incident between someone I'm kinda seeing and his roommate. So there's that.... were they fighting over you?
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Post by MJ2.0 on Mar 30, 2015 12:36:48 GMT -5
Well last night I had a front row ticket to a domestic violence incident between someone I'm kinda seeing and his roommate. So there's that.... were they fighting over you? Lol, no - it was some living arrangement/house disagreement.
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Post by toomuchreality on Mar 30, 2015 20:39:40 GMT -5
Holy crap, Wolf Lodge is like $200-350/nt. His ex wife got a deal for $100/night. She had to work, so couldnt use it. She asked DB if he wanted to use the discount to take the kids. I was wrong on the dates--he actually left yesterday... And I get to go feed and let his dog out to boot. You're so lucky!
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Post by milee on Mar 30, 2015 20:55:33 GMT -5
Well last night I had a front row ticket to a domestic violence incident between someone I'm kinda seeing and his roommate. So there's that.... Yikes! At least now you know what you're dealing with and what they think is acceptable behavior.
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