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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
How about: "I love my kitty more than all of you kooks combined, so I'm staying home to nurse her back to health."
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That is what I should have done, Pooh. I called my cousin to determine that her crazy mother (unfortunately, my blood-aunt) was NOT going to be there, so I thought it would be okay. It was her husband and kids, my uncle, and a nice couple that both my uncle and cousin know but I've never met and I do like my cousin's husband and kids (her husband and her older daughter are my irl book-buddies).
So far, so good, right? No. Without going into a lot of family history, let me just say that my cousin was bringing up family crap I feel she should definitely NOT have been bringing up in front of casual friends/acquaintances/strangers (what the couple is to her, the uncle, and myself respectively). I finally sternly whispered, "Change. the. subject." into her ear but maintained my decorum and courtesy, I believe.
I really want to call or email her to tell her that, the next time she does that, I have some choice stories about her mother to share with whoever she is going on about my side of the family to. I never hear her regale guests with tales of her demented mother's past, for some reason.
Also, she is the type that is constantly asking personal questions. A mutual cousin calls her "the interrogator." I almost slapped her when, the day after our grandmother died, she asked my sobbing mother why she didn't get the ambulance there more quickly and not in tone of someone who should have been in mourning herself but wasn't crying or anything but in the tone of a lawyer or, more appropriately in this case, a nurse questioning a patient. It has been fifteen years but I think I remember not slapping her but barking at her to shut up. I almost slapped her last night,too, but refrained.
Let me tell you, I was very glad to get home and into bed with my Kindle and CInder-kitty.