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[rl, family shit] ahahhaaha
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My grandfather is turning 90 this year
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He doesn't want to go to any family function bullshit. He wants to stay home where it's nice and air conditioned and play with his cat Tempurra
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My aunt Sally is the kind of "everyone all the time MUST be present at EVERY family gathering" person
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We were told a little while ago that her, her husband, my cousin Frank, and Grandpa were coming
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My aunt sally lives about 30 minutes away from Grandpa and an hour from us
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She and my uncle split up and take two cars so that one of them can drive Grandpa home
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So we get a text from her just now
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"Grandpa's not coming"
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And Mom goes "Oh, he must not be feeling well
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and I start laughing because I go "You know that she's over there right now, right? And she's trying to force him out of his PJs"
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"Oh my god you're right"
spooky queer
jesus
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"Bet you that they didn't even call him, they just showed up and went "come on!" and expected him to be ready"
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"That's exactly what's happening, you're right"
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"I bet she's giving him the guilt trip too. The whole "Allison and Sergio are expecting you, you're going to miss them, it's not right to say you're going and then not"
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I mean
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Good for my grandpa
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don't make him go if he doesn't want to go
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Leeave him alone! He's 90 years old. We can send him the food when you go back!
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i was gonna say, grampa just wants to chill w/ his cat... let him.... please
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(also tempurra is the cutest name for a cat omg)
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I guarantee you that he said yes a week ago then woke up and went "nah , not feeling it" and Aunt Sally didn't call to confirm before she drove the hour round trip out of her way to go get him
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She sounds pissed
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I love it when people tell my aunt no
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God bless my grandpa on this 4th of july. let freedom ring, baby!
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: tempurra is a monster cat and I love her. she's a huge gray kitty and she eats at the table like a human
Cmdr.Crackers
as someone who said no to my in-law's get together this year. GOOD FOR HIM
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And we get guilted the same way in a different direction. We have been told by her, many times, that this could be Grandpa's last party.
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For the last ten fucking years
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I'm like "his last party is his funeral call us then"
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He doesn't want people in his space!
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We go see him once a week on our own, we don't need to add to this nonsense
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Cmdr.Crackers
: aw yeah
Cmdr.Crackers
he's doing what he wants, chilling with his cat. he's happy. let him have thissss
spooky queer
your aunt is a nightmare
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we actually said YES to inlaws to avoid MY FAMILY
spooky queer
really both of them are in different ways
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Grandpa's 90th and my cousin Leslie's 60th is on the 28th this month and we ducked out to go see my husband's family at a reunion they wer ehaving
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I guarantee you we're gonna get shit from my aunt about it but I don't care it's great
Cmdr.Crackers
sounds like a solid choice
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I hate crowds
spooky queer
here's to not giving any fucks
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And I want to spend time with people who are my age
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Sergio's cousins are all great and they have little kids. I don't want to spend the day drinking with the same crowd I see every. single. holiday.
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Especially when we're always the youngest ones there
Cmdr.Crackers
yeah that sounds like no fun at all.
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I think part of the reason I'm so down and dour all the time is because I'm always around people who are sick and dying. B[ let me have one day where I'm not expected to do shit because I'm the youngest. I'm 32! leave me alone
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spooky queer
: I hear that!
Cmdr.Crackers
for me it was, do i really want to drive three hours to sleep on an air mattress in a poorly air conditioned house so I can not be able to drink on the hot back porch with a bunch of trumpers setting off fire works? nah, i'm good. thanks.
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Cmdr.Crackers
: eeeexactly
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also bc you're surrounded by everyone who expects you to do everything
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And we don't have a huge thing planned today. One side of the family just came back from a wedding and the other is planning a 90th birthday so it's not 40 thousand people
Cmdr.Crackers
go have fun with people your age, play with the kids, get to live a little!
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We're like 15, max. A nice quiet BBQ
Cmdr.Crackers
much better, you can actually talk to people that way
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We don't have my aunt liz because she's holed up in bed with her busted knee. We don't have my cousin Charles because he's with his girlfriend's family. We don't have cousins Erica and Abby because they're at the cape, we don't have sergio's cousins because they're on their honeymoon
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We have my brother and my aunt's family. We have Sergio's aunt and her kid and her girlfriend
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And maybe some neighbors
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And it's great
Cmdr.Crackers
need to introduce some of your family to the abscence makes the heart grown fonder idea lol
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We have way too much food but that's par for the course
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yus
Hyatt
I hope he told them that he knows you're not expecting him