This B is trippin!

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Used to have a step sister named jerica. I can't even remember how to spell it, but I think that is right. My cousin got the idea to tweak it a bit and started calling her "generica." Which pissed my step-mother off more than my step-sister. Apparantly, the name comes from the marriage of two names being "Jerry" and "Erica". I have no idea whose names they were, but good god! We (my sisters and I) never held her intelligence in very high esteem. However, I would have to say the worst name I have ever heard...."Quality Staples". No joke. It was his real name. On his birth certificate and every other legal document you can think of. I have no idea what was, or wasn't going on in his mothers head.

Be glad you guys don't have some crazy wife that would persecute you soley on the fact that you shut down your in-laws. For any reason. You know they are out there!

BTW - the first cab I took in NYC - the driver's name was Butt Arif. That was pretty funny.
 
Even though I may not always agree with my mother in law ... when she comes to visit, she asks for a pistol to keep by her bedside (she doesn't like the hassle of bringing her own through the airports).
 
I'd have been inclined to tell them that, as their host, of course I'd do everything I could, even at the expense of my own personal beliefs, to make sure that they felt confortable in my home. I'd get them to agree that this was the only decent way for a host to behave.

Wait for it.

Then I'd tell them that when I came over to visit their place, I would fully expect them to have a few guns available, since I feel uncomfortable anywhere I do not have a gun available for my self defense. Then I'd point out that they did just agree that it was the host's obligation to make guests comfortable even at the expense of the host's own preferences.

Then I'd tell them that I'm going to hang up now, and that they should call me back when they've resolved their own hypocrisy and can act like adults.

But that's just me.

-BP
 
My mom's an anti too, but we get along pretty well about it. I don't usually keep guns out when she's here, and she doesn't say anything when she does see them, nor does she say anything negative to the kids when they start chattering about shooting. We disagree about pretty much everything, but fortunately the only thing we really fight about is politics. Were it me, I would decline her requests, keeping your guns out in the car is absurd, but I wouldn't go out of my way to antagonize her either.

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I have a brother in law that is anti. He told me he did not want me carrying at his house so I do not go there period. Actually I just do not go around him at all now.

Christmas is a time that you remember why you only see some family members once a year! :evil:
 
And people wonder why I don't talk to my family, and why my wife adopeted my philosophy and now we don't speak to the in-laws. Christmas is stressful enough (ooops, I said a nasty word, didn't I - but I'm sure that whatever you celebrate this time of year will drive you nuts) without having to put up with extra crap. I can't control the crowds at the mall, and I can't control the lights that don't work right....but I can control my own home. All visitors know my rules...
1. I own guns, they aren't toys and they cost a lot so NO you can't touch them (unless it's friends that let me touch their guns)
2. Yes, some of the guns are loaded, if you're worried about them "going off"...see rule 1
3. I own cats - if you're allergic, don't enter
4. No, I'm not going to lock the cats up either, they live here you don't. If you don't want cat hair on you - stay off our furniture
5. The door works both ways, feel free to use it anytime!

By getting rid of family and in-laws, my Christmas goes much more peacable by allowing me to only deal with the people I like (wife, guns, cats).
 
This thread is like a cool breeze

Dry cool breeze on a hot August day in Houston TX.
Another good read. Give the guests a gift to show you care. A book by J Ross.

Ok thats a bit wicked. I'll stop now.
 
I would have just told her not to bother to show up on my doorstep. Nobody is welcome who would just invite themselves to sleep here without asking (quite a few people have a standing invatation to come here at any time. However they are also the same type of people who would have asked first anyway & not behaved in the way that your SIL did).

The demands about the guns are incredible. If you ever go visit her (yes, yes, I know but play along :D ) you need to tell her to put all her televisions out on the front porch as tv is warping the minds of her children & you don't want yours exposed to it :evil: .

My (anti) family knows we own guns (not how many though, that would cause an brain cramp :D ). They also know not to let me know their views about them as I will destroy their arguments with logic & facts :cool: . It's stories like this that make me somewhat glad that our families are 2000+ miles away & that we will be spending the holidays with our own "family" (close friends who's worldview is much more alligned with our own).

Greg
 
Problem solved, my wife called me here at work and told me that they will not be coming at all for the holidays. Seems the MIL tore into K for aasking something do ridiculous and expecting me to oblige. Great responses guys. Don't get me wrong, i do like K as long as certain things don't come up in conversation. Her husband is a professor at Northwestern and a great conversation. He has a PHD in African Studies and unfortunately also an anti, someday we will talk about this and I'll see if I can figure out why. This all works out for the best since my wife and k don't get along for more than 30 minutes.
 
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