Family sucks
I have 6 other brothers and sisters. Apparently, my mom interpreted the catholic "rhythm method" to mean the rhythm of her hips and the rhythm of one child, every 2 years.
Back to my siblings. Each one of them is special in their own way. Each one of them sucks in their own way too. Right now, we’re having spousal wars. All of my sisters have some great opinions of the other sister’s husbands. When I dated a Muslim, he was a complete lightening rod for criticism (those were of the more harmonious years). Right now, it’s my sister Alex versus Susan’s husband Richard.
During Jennifer’s wedding, Alex got into a fight with Richard’s mom. That ’s right. Richard is the kind of person who is so controlling and so socially awkward, that he has to bring his mother around to every family gathering and event he goes to. Did I mention he’s like, 45? Anyway, Richard heard that Alex was talking snap about his mom so he emails all of my brothers and sisters:
—–abbreviated email—————————————–
Recently it has come to my attention that someone in the Castro family is
running thier mouths about my mom. This person has really got nothing better
to do with thier life. Instead of talking to just me or Susan they had to
start talking to the whole Castro family. My mom is not a mean person!
Maybe someone just doesn’t know her well enough. My mom has never degraded
Susan. My mom has always helped Susan. If you don’t see us at family events then you’ll know why. It used to be scheduling problem, not any more.
(I kept spelling errors in there for added effect)————————————–
So I reply:
From: Debbie [mailto:parisfemme@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: Richard’s Mom
By emailing the entire list of castro kids, you are in effect, stooping to the level of the person who didn’t approach you directly. Why not take your own advice and approach that person instead of airing it out to all of us to satisfy your need to retaliate through shame.
August 21st, 2005 at 8:48 pm
Interesting going-on’s with your family there. My family tends to go thru periods where we all fight a lot, but we do it in person rather than through email. Apparently, your family is more computer-savvy than mine.
August 22nd, 2005 at 3:43 am
OR… they’re just lazy and want to use email to blast one member in front of the rest…
August 22nd, 2005 at 8:59 pm
*sigh* yeah, I know about those catholic families. *deeper sigh*
The only comment I can make is: Be thankful that you’re a human, and not a rabbit… Debbie, if you were a real rabbit, you’d have WAY more than 6 siblings messing with your zen .
ps. stumbled on your blog today…hmmm, made me smile…thanks.
August 24th, 2005 at 10:15 am
mo dong jadi teman-teman kamu semua
August 26th, 2005 at 8:21 pm
Oh Debbie!!! Mujer, don’t even get me started on this - la familia is OOC (out of control) most of the time… although there are only 3 siblings in my Nica clan, that’s plenty to go around… I have to say that at least through email you can just press “delete” as opposed to having to get that crap in person; I wish I could just press “delete” on certain situations - my family has just not become that computer saavy; although that day may soon be approaching. And email also prevents the oh-so-annoying interruptions that happen in the middle of family “talks”