Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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askye - Aug 11, 2010 3:38:29 pm PDT #28255 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

Billy - wait until he's older and can actually work the phone.

Or do what my nephew did the other day --Mom put the phone to his ear so I could talk to him, and he grabbed and went off running chanting "Mine! Mine!" I could hear mom in the back ground "Can you bring Nina the phone?"

I was cracking up but hoping he could hear me I was telling him "E you're such a good boy! Can you take Nina the phone? Go to Nina !"

PC I'm sorry about what happened with your brother.


billytea - Aug 11, 2010 3:44:49 pm PDT #28256 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Holy crap, PC. No wonder he's supportive about the grief you get from them.

I hope it works out, for both of you (and the white she-devil).


Spidra Webster - Aug 11, 2010 3:48:41 pm PDT #28257 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Good luck to you and your brother, P-C.


Calli - Aug 11, 2010 3:55:28 pm PDT #28258 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Yipes! I hope the fallout isn't too bad, P-C.


Liese S. - Aug 11, 2010 3:56:33 pm PDT #28259 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

<unhelpful>Dude, this is awesome. Now you can marry a nice Gujarati girl that you meet yourself and you will not be nearly as bad as your brother!</unhelpful> In all seriousness, I wish your family luck in going through all this.
 
Mine went through the Japanese equivalent, but luckily for me it happened in my generation but I am the youngest of all my cousins. So by the time I was dating my first boyfriend (black) or my long distance boyfriend (Hispanic) or my husband to be (Caucasian) it was no big deal. I always told my parents I would be happy to date a nice Japanese boy, only I`d never met one that wasn`t my cousin and this was not my fault.


Sean K - Aug 11, 2010 3:59:05 pm PDT #28260 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Yikes, P-C.

Re: the kid thing.

This is actually one of the many parts of what I've been struggling so hard with over the last year.

I have recently begun to feel like my window for ever having any kind of a family has closed. I'm glad I don't have kids now, because I've never gotten my shit together quite enough - I wouldn't have been able to handle it before now.

But to some degree, I wanted the possibility there.

And frankly, it's been very very difficult to not feel like my window of finding any kind of long term relationship has closed as well.


beth b - Aug 11, 2010 4:03:56 pm PDT #28261 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I think the lesson is don't hide it . it will be a mess no matter what, so just do it.

And if my boyfriend wasn't willing to admit I was his girlfriend to his parents ( that he was in contact with ) , I wouldn't be living with him. Man up, don't make me live in the middle of the explosion.


-t - Aug 11, 2010 4:10:15 pm PDT #28262 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Good luck, P-C. Maybe once it's all out in the open and the world doesn't end, your parents will be a little less rigid. Could happen.

That used furniture store sounds like kind of a nifty idea, Hil. Hooray rocking chair!


omnis_audis - Aug 11, 2010 4:15:43 pm PDT #28263 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

My brother joked that they're pretty much never going to believe any of us ever again.
Nah, just tell them the brutal truth. Then say "what? Would you rather I hide the truth and LIE to you for all this time? You didn't take that well with [brother]." either way, good luck to you and him! I wonder what your sister thinks?


Zenkitty - Aug 11, 2010 4:15:59 pm PDT #28264 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

And frankly, it's been very very difficult to not feel like my window of finding any kind of long term relationship has closed as well.

Sean, I feel like this sometimes as well. I hope we are both wrong.

P.-C., man. I wish good luck and strength and a hardy sense of humor to all your mother's children and all their present and future significant others. Mother of P.-C., for future reference, if you're not totally prepared to know what's in the closet, don't open the door!