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Post by Peace Of Mind on Sept 14, 2015 22:33:27 GMT -5
I have to share this with you all. My maternal grandmother just turned 94 yesterday. While talking to her I realized I take after her more than I thought. She said they are cutting back on the meat they serve to cut costs (at the home she lives in) and was pissed off that she only got one thin slice of roast beef. I told her she needed to ask them "Where's the beef?!" She said she was going to do that next time and then she said to me (after I asked her how else are things going for her?): "I'm bored and I'm thinking I need a boyfriend but I'm not sure if I have the energy to put up with one." She was giggling when she said it.  Yep. I take after my grandma. What family traits were you lucky enough to get that are a bit "different" or funny?  |
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Sept 15, 2015 20:30:09 GMT -5
I am extremely stubborn and strong willed like my grandma |
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Post by Apple on Sept 15, 2015 21:52:32 GMT -5
We're stubborn. And, if we warn you about something and you choose to ignore us, we'll laugh at you when it's time. Gramma took a cow to auction once, and warned the guy the cow was mean (she was tiny, and female, so of course she just didn't know how to handle a cow properly). Well, he took it and within seconds that cow had him cornered against a fence trying to impale him with her horns, and while several guys ran to pull the cow off him, gramma just sat back and enjoyed the show, laughing. After all, she warned him...
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Post by chiver78 on Sept 15, 2015 21:58:19 GMT -5
I'm just gonna plead the 5th here....  |
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Post by wyouser on Sept 16, 2015 15:29:31 GMT -5
Onery, stubborn, left-handed German
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2015 15:36:03 GMT -5
Is sarcasm a trait?
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Post by The Captain on Sept 16, 2015 15:54:25 GMT -5
Irish Temper, German stubbornness from my mom's side.
Yea, that pretty well sums it up.
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Post by dannylion on Sept 16, 2015 16:45:40 GMT -5
I take after my Dad's side of the family. We tend to be smart, stubborn, independent, and a little cranky. Sadly, most of us are not attractive and have no musical talent. We also tend to be socially awkward. But we're really, really smart, so there is that.
On my Mom's side, everyone is good looking and can sing. Most have good social skills.
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Post by busymom on Sept 16, 2015 18:32:38 GMT -5
Sense of humor, most people in my family play musical instruments or sing, and I have a long fuse BUT unfortunately seem to have inherited Dad's tendency to yell when I'm at my rope's end.
Oh, & be sure to tell me I CAN'T do something, then I'll go out & do it (thanks to Mom's side of the family). |
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 16, 2015 19:58:48 GMT -5
I received no noticable traits from my parents. Dad always pondered why I was more like the milk and eggs man who delivered to our home than him.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2015 20:33:08 GMT -5
On my Mom's side, we all love each other dearly but we are under no illusion about each others faults and have no problem talking about them pretty openly with each other. We have no problem seeing other people's faults either, but mostly we talk about them behind their backs  |
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Post by haapai on Sept 16, 2015 21:20:47 GMT -5
My father's family's idea of a great family reunion is everyone in the same room reading different things. It drives outsiders and my mother's family buggy. They simply don't understand that it's good to walk into a room where three different people are are arranged under different lamps earnestly reading and that the right thing to do under these circumstances is to find some light and something to read or go somewhere else.
I suspect that the hearing loss that hits my dad's side of the family at middle age has a lot to do with this. A good proportion of the family suffers from progressive hearing loss and by nightfall they are socially whipped. They've done all the lip-reading and guessing that they are capable of doing during a day and they just can't handle any more social interaction. The members of my dad's family who do not have hearing loss seem to understand what is going on and adapt to it well. Folks who married into the family are probably really confused.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Sept 16, 2015 22:25:38 GMT -5
chiver78 is the only one I'm not related to here as we have no chicken in our family tree. The rest of you all are like us except the left handed and loss of hearing parts. I'm also German Irish with the stubborn, temper thing. Yay! I have a cool, fun, funny family again!!  Stubborn and temperamental is fun and/or funny. 
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Post by toomuchreality on Sept 23, 2015 5:58:17 GMT -5
chiver78 is the only one I'm not related to here as we have no chicken in our family tree. The rest of you all are like us except the left handed and loss of hearing parts. I'm also German Irish with the stubborn, temper thing. Yay! I have a cool, fun, funny family again!! Stubborn and temperamental is fun and/or funny. In chiver78's defense- It sounds to me, like you have some real a$$es  in your family, POM!  (I can't believe that wasn't chiver's reply! ) |
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Post by Jaguar on Sept 23, 2015 13:18:14 GMT -5
Both my mom and dad were intelligent, the record is still out if I inherited any though. I'm stubborn, that's from mom's side. I'm a loner, that's from both sides. I'm independent, which I got from mom. I'm fearless, which I also got from mom's side.
The freak part I got from my dad's side. lol
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Post by mroped on Sept 23, 2015 14:23:50 GMT -5
Thin hair from grandpa on mom side, grunting when I put my shoes on just like grandpa on dad's side. Dark hair and eyes from dad, see things always positively like mom. vengeful and stubborn like mom! I already see some of my parents' traits in my children. Poor children are doomed! |
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Sept 28, 2015 0:40:47 GMT -5
chiver78 is the only one I'm not related to here as we have no chicken in our family tree. The rest of you all are like us except the left handed and loss of hearing parts. I'm also German Irish with the stubborn, temper thing. Yay! I have a cool, fun, funny family again!! Stubborn and temperamental is fun and/or funny. In chiver78's defense- It sounds to me, like you have some real a$$es in your family, POM! (I can't believe that wasn't chiver's reply! ) I liked your post because I don't think you realized you just called everybody here an ass and it cracked me up because I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to! But what do I know. I'm an ass. |
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Post by imanangel on Sept 28, 2015 5:27:26 GMT -5
I also have the Irish temper and the German stubbornness. I definitely got those traits from my parents. The rest of my personality, not so much. I don't really fit in with my family.
ETA: I remembered one other thing I inherited from my dad, his sense of humor. I have a dorky sense of humor just like he does.
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Post by toomuchreality on Sept 29, 2015 23:47:16 GMT -5
In chiver78's defense- It sounds to me, like you have some real a$$es in your family, POM! (I can't believe that wasn't chiver's reply! ) I liked your post because I don't think you realized you just called everybody here an ass and it cracked me up because I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to! But what do I know. I'm an ass.  UGH! Not what I meant, at all!   Pleeeeeease, pleeeeeeease forgive me!  |
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Post by mollyanna58 on Oct 4, 2015 10:36:22 GMT -5
Procrastination from both parents. See, it took me almost 3 weeks to post to this thread.
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Post by mmhmm on Oct 4, 2015 11:28:53 GMT -5
I'm my father's girl in almost all respects. Laid back and easy going procrastinator who pretty much likes everybody. I did get my mother's love of animals and nature.
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Post by toomuchreality on Oct 4, 2015 13:22:26 GMT -5
Oh, geez. I don't know that I would call anyone else in my family a procrastinator, but I sure am!
That is one quality(?) that I excel at! LOL
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Post by Shooby on Oct 4, 2015 16:11:32 GMT -5
Let the World Die. That's my trait.  |
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 4, 2015 16:24:51 GMT -5
Let the World Die. That's my trait. Atta girl. Always the optimist. |
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Post by gooddecisions on Oct 4, 2015 16:30:52 GMT -5
Impatient, prompt, highly motivated by time and moody at times. I haven't decided what my positive personality characteristics are. My dad told me recently he is highly empathetic, which does not come across at all. I too have a keen ability to empathize with peoples' struggles and it probably doesn't show itself as much as it actually feels inside.
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