The Glade 4.0

You said there was a story? I like stories.

There is, but it's not a Hellfire discussion topic. Maybe if a moderator would be so kind as to put this in another forum...

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Maybe I would if a poster would be so kind as to tell me which forum they want it in...

Rants?

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Either that or General would seem appropriate. My family has ben ranting about this woman at every gathering for 25 or 30 years, so my need for venting is long-since fulfilled.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Sorry, DE, I saw you mention it in Hellfire and I thought it was going to be one of those funny "that person in the family" crazy-relative stories..(I have a couple of those)..you can just forget I brought it up, I didn't realize it wasn't funny.
Sorry.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Oh, it's plenty funny. Hilarious, even. Hellfire just isn't the place I'd rather discuss it.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Well, we're in Rants and Raves now.

Sounds like a good place for it

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Holy shitsnacks!

Ok, gotcha.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

OK, so this is how it is with my crazy aunt.

First of all, I don't like this woman one bit. She's my mother's youngest sister, my mom's other younger sister is much closer to her, and is not a complete raving nitwit. My mom is 64; my sane aunt is 63 and the wing-ding is 59.

A little background: She has Borderline Personality Disorder, Manic-Depressive disorder and I believe at least one other problem as well. She has also long since burned through any family suympathy because no matter how much you do for her, it is never enough, and the slightest deviation from what she wants, and you're on her **** list.

In various ways she's abused the generosity of my grandfather, grandmother, step-grandmother, mother, other aunt, other aunt's husband, and my father over the years. A lot of these stories are not funny at all and so I won't bore you with them. Suffice to say that basically, everything with her is always about how badly she needs money, and no amount of it ever suffices because she's incapable of holding a job. My favorite was a letter she sent to my dad, long LONG after my parents divorced in which she was asking him for legal advice and of course went off on a long rant about how her family wasn't helping her with the "ever-increasing cost of being alive."

As that line should indicate, she's also a hyper-liberal worthy of Monty himself, and any communication from her is sure to include plenty of diatribes against many of his favorite targets.

Anyhow, what made me bring her up was the discussion about torts, class-action lawsuits, and such. A few years ago, she (according to her) bought some cheapo flip flops at Wal-Mart, which were unsurprisingly manufactured in China. Again, according to her, they caused chemical burns on her feet.

Supposedly there was this class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart over these flip flops. She, of course, was involved in this, and sent long letters to my step-grandma and my aunt about how she was going to get all this money out of Wal-Mart. It included all the typical anti-Wal-Mart diatribes. We're talking a good 3 pages, single spaced, of all the various crimes against humanity Wal Mart has perpetrated, and of course, stalking faulty Chinese flip flops was tops on the list.

My mom happens to be in town, so I'll ask tonight and see if I can determine what became of the flip-flop lawsuit. Maybe I can think of a few other funny stories too. The hilarity of it, to me at least, is that she's so perfectly representative of people who like to rant and carry on about the evils of large corporations when in reality they just want a quick buck. This woman has spent her entire life mooching off her family, her church, her friends, and the taxpayer, and somehow I have the good fortune to be related to her! I'm just waiting until she starts in on my generation.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I've known a few like that. They usually die before they're her age; crazy is not good for longevity.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Her crazy is remarkably durable. She did have a "suicide attempt" recently, but it was a fairly typical "cry for help" suicide attempt except insofar as it really wasn't that serious of an attempt at actual suicide.

It did, however, at least get rid of the 17 dogs she was taking care of and an unknown number of cats and resulted in her being moved from out in the country to an efficiency apartment. We can only hope that, freed of the burden of several dozen critters, the social security payments she leeches off the taxpayer will be enough for her to live on without troubling her sisters or my step-grandmother for money.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Are you SURE this doesn't belong in Hellfire?

Yes. If I'm going to call a family member a hyper liberal worthy of Monty himself, I'm not going to debate it in terms of political philosophy.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Yeah, that's pretty powerful. (srsly 3 pages over some chinese flip-flops?) I'd be ranting as well...I have a couple of crazy uncles, but they're schizophrenic and heavily medicated...and holding down career jobs. It's been over two decades since either one of them did anything super crazy.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Arays' new signature is... mesmorizing..

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That's not the word I would use (if I did, I'd spell it correctly) :p

But it's ok. There is an option to turn off signatures in my user profile, so I made it go away...

Why would you want to?

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Just in case it helps…


Consumerist coverage on the chemical burn flip flops

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Once, I was a ranger
Then, I was a warlock
And a mage
And a paladin
Now, I seek to be myself

Ok, I didn't realize that was a dude until I read the comment section...why is a dude wearing yellow and pink flip-flops?

I quit buying stuff from "dollar stores" or the cheap section at wal-mart....you.get.what.you.pay.for.

I have no problem, however, buying name brand stuff from the thrift store...I just make sure stuff is clean and hasn't been a recalled product...there are myriad other ways to save money without buying too cheap stuffs from Wally World.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Ok, so another crazy-ass aunt story.

Back a while before my dad died, she was living in a tent. I'm really not sure why (other than just general inability to manage her life) and she got this plan concocted to live on the property of these friends of hers down near Dayton, OH and raise their goats. I don't recall if it was in a trailer or a guest house, but that was the plan.

Anyhow, about a month after we first get wind of the goat plan, my dad (who, being divorced from my mom, has no dog whatsoever in this fight) asking him for legal advice on why she can't live on her friends' property and raise their goats. Evidently the county got wind of it and put a stop to this.

My dad didn't want to get involved since this was his ex-wife's family and him sticking his nose in could lead nowhere good, but he was curious as to what the problem was. Evidently the zoning laws in that county prohibit more than one primary residence on one plot of land.

So, the goat plan fell through. It's fairly typical of my aunt; come up with some plan where she basically does some pathetic excuse for work, and lives off of someone else. The most amusing part to me was that she felt it necessary to ***** to my dad, her sister's ex-husband, about how her sisters wouldn't help her with "the ever-increasing cost of being alive." Yeah, your sisters both made something of themselves, so obviously they should support your goat-raising nature-woman ambitions.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Yeh, that guy got off easy.

http://web.archive.org/web/200808220129 ... almart.htm

That's the woman who initially claimed the flipflops were bad. Photos are on page 2.

My gosh they're bad.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Living in a tent, raising goats? What a bedouin life-style, haha! I think they should have let her do it.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Who? My mom and my aunt, or the county? My mom and aunt were perfectly happy to let her go raise goats; it was just another in a long line of crazy ideas. The raising goats plan was actually supposed to get her out of the tent and into a trailer or a guest house.

This woman has had (just off the top of my head) dog obedience and training, wool spinning, goat raising, sales representative for COMPAQ computers, raising various other animals, more general sales, general farming, and any number of other careers in addition to collecting social security and mooching off family, friends, and church throughout her life. I know there's been at least 8 other "careers" in there I just can't remember what they were since only COMPAQ had any real promise. Almost everything she's done in her life has revolved around living out in the country and being wildly overly optimistic about how much money you can make doing little artsy-fartsy work. Not that there's anything wrong with doing country crafts, but you need to have a solid business plan if that's your desire and her idea of a business plan resembles that of Doug trying to open a sandwich shop on The King of Queens. Keep in mind that she is not stupid either; she has a bachelor's degree and almost finished a Master's; it's simply a desire to do her little thing and have the money just magically flow in.

She changes churches like this too, of those I can recall she's been a Methodist, Epsicopalian (or Anglican; I understand there's some separation these days), Quaker, and some sort of fundamentalist.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

You know...I'm adopted...any possiblity this woman could be my birth mother??

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Highly unlikely.. although with your hair and skin coloring we could easily be brother and sister.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."