^^^ He called me a rich arrogant asshole becuase I bought a new car. I saved up for it for a few years and bought it myself. He doesn't understand in order to get nice things you have to work. Also, I do not apologize or feel bad for hard work and earning retirement.

My wife told me yesterday she feels guilty for wearing nice things in front of them or even wanting nice things. But I remind her that's why we work hard. And all but 1 of them is ok with not working and living in the suck. The 1 decided to hell with that lifestyle and worked hard and got a scholarship.

^all but 2 of the kids were over 18, and we don't know how they were allowed to keep the youngest 2. One day they were condemned, disappeared for a few months, then moved back in to a clean place. I suspect thier church bailed them out. They hid the problems so well that we didn't know about the condemnation until pretty mich afterwards.

[Edited on December 26, 2012 at 1:23 PM. Reason : .]

12/26/2012 1:21:06 PM

This is the story of my "aunt" (by law).

Back story:

My uncle has Aperger Syndrome, but he is highly functional and works at one of the top tech companies in the area/world. He makes six figures and is one of the most genuinely nice guys around. He has one child, who has more severe Asperger's that was a result of many, many tries with his wife.

His former wife began racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debt buying stupid shit like Beanie Babies and Disney collectibles. One day, one of his buddies from high school who is actually a PhD research chemist at State calls him over. He had married a self-proclaimed bisexual stripper we'll call Jane. They had a daughter together, and she also had an artificially inseminated Asian child. Since dirtbag friend was a druggie and only used Jane for sex, he just casually offers my uncle to take her upstairs and bang her. My uncle, having only one intimate relationship in his life with an unattractive woman agrees to bang this young, relatively hot stripper chick. He knocks her up and tells his wife, so she gets EVERYTHING in the divorce because out of guilt he refused to fight anything. We're talking $5k a month in alimony, child support, lost the house, everything. She still takes out credit cards in his name and he still pays her debts due to the threat to take their son to Ohio if he doesn't. Meanwhile, Uncle marries Jane and soon after she she gives birth to a son.

Jane:

This woman is insane. She was born in Pittsburg to a white trash family (her younger sister does porn and heroin) with a Polish last name. However, she speaks with a British/French accent and when confronted about it, she claims she lived in French Canada for 6 months (not true) and picked up the accent. She has changed her name several times to various French names. She stripped all over the country, but claims that she made a 1600 on the SAT and had a full ride to Princeton. She never finished high school. She tells her kids that she taught herself English, and three other languages by the time she was 7. The kids all have speech impediments because of the English/French nonsense she speaks to them. I have put my French friends on the phone without warning trying to get her to speak to them and she'll giggle and hand the phone off to my uncle claiming that "they speak a different dialect"

Her hair is past her hips and she forces the boys to have hair past their hips, despite them being made fun of in school. She also will not allow my uncle to not have his hair in a long pony tail.

She has never had a driver's license or a real job so my uncle has to take her everywhere. She is an avid Atheist (loves Dawkins and Hitchens) but she observes Jewish traditions, such as not eating pork. Her kids have never eaten pork and my uncle hasn't since they got together. She doesn't like for her kids to eat beef either, only chicken and fish. She stays up all night and sleeps all day, and she doesn't know how to cook or clean.

She goes out in public wearing plaid school girl skirts, fishnets, knee high boots, and low cut tank tops. She also wears this to Christmas/Thanksgiving dinners. She ranks her kids in order of how much she loves them and tells the daughter, whom she has always ranked last, she fully expects her to get pregnant and become a stripper. The daughter has a litany of her own problems, including dropping out and legal issues.

The thing that gets me the most about this is that she is so elitist and arrogant. My whole family HATES her but my uncle and her kids believe every word of the garbage she tells them. She always starts wildly liberal political and religious arguments with anyone that will engage her during holiday dinners. Usually, she only comes for Christmas Eve because we have crab and tenderloin - but the only thing she eats is the crab. She also gets all over my uncle during dinners and talks about how "gorgeous" he is, again with her stupid bullshit French accent.

The last thing is that she always trashes Raleigh, which is fine, but if you never ever leave your house ever, how do you really know what the city is like? She actively tries to convince my uncle to move somewhere like NYC even though he is close to retirement at his company, the same one my grandfather worked at until his retirement. She is just the most absolutely selfish, despicable human being there is.

I think she has dissociative identity disorder, personally. There's more but I've already typed a lot.

/words.

[Edited on December 26, 2012 at 1:52 PM. Reason : moar]

12/26/2012 1:50:18 PM

"Jane" gives liberals a bad name.

12/26/2012 2:11:28 PM

pussy makes a man do crazy things.

12/26/2012 3:08:37 PM

It's settled, we all hate "Jane"

12/26/2012 3:30:01 PM

That sounds awful

12/26/2012 3:46:35 PM

does Jane provide some good backdoor lovin?

12/26/2012 4:11:23 PM

Quote :

" pussy makes a man do crazy things. "

THIS

12/26/2012 4:21:05 PM

Most of my crazy stories come from my meth addict Mississippi family, so I'll begin there... the condensed version, that is

My aunt recently was up for 30 years in prison for possession and attempt to sell/distribute meth ( part of a big ring), but I guess she gave up some names and got a lesser sentence? I don't know, all I know is she's on parole now and I'm sure she'll go back soon. My mom got her a flipping droid tablet for Christmas and I'm sure she'll pawn it for drug money. There is such a ridiculous amount of shit on her record from over the years (both for real and just with our family), but it would take forever to go through it all. I'm sure the teeth my mom and aunt bought her (yup, she's in her late 40s and already has a new set of teeth) about 15ish years ago will be rotted out soon from hitting the pipe.

Her son (the oldest) is in prison for drug charges as well. The real kicker is a little while back he broke out of jail, went and bought drugs, SNUCK BACK IN, then got caught when trying to sell said drugs. He's a real genius if you can't tell.

His sister (she came to live with us for a few months when I was a teen *shudder*) is in jail now for... ding ding ding, drug charges. She was out on parole then either didn't show up to a drug test or failed it, we can't really get a straight answer. Oh, and we just found out she's pregnant. She's keeping it because it's "the right thing to do." I'm sure the baby will be healthy even though she's on all sorts of shit, because apparently that's the way the world works... Oh, and she's also in a gang. From the symbols I saw her wearing or whatever, I think it's the Royals (?) that started in Chicago. Not sure how that drifted all the way down to Bum Fuck, Mississippi, but ok.

And finally, we all thought her youngest son would be the winner of the family considering he apparently was really good at football and baseball, but then he knocked up a chick at school. Now they have a baby and I think he's a logger or something. I thought he was doing pretty well for himself considering he is such a young parent but, SURPRISE, found out recently he got into meth.

On my dad's side, my first cousin (uncle's son) is now dabbling in drugs AGAIN. He speaks like he is from Mexico, yet he's from the southeast. Sometimes I feel like he truly thinks he is Mexican. Is it possible to be a born again Mexican? That sounds terrible, but good lord I don't understand him. He works in the fields in California so I get if there is some influence, but the way he speaks English is with an accent as if Spanish is his first language. I just don't get it.

My aunt on my dad's side is a trainwreck and was MIA for like 10 years. Then we found out she was living in one of those mini camping trailers you can pull with your truck on some random dude's land. She now lives off government assistance because she "can't work." Yet she's not injured. I don't really understand it. Two of her sons are jacked up and weird, but thankfully my one cousin (the oldest of the three) is doing really, really well for himself here in Florida. His dad left him in Miami when he was 17 because he just wanted to move up to West Virginia and my cousin only had a few months left of high school so he said no. Instead of working with my cousin, my uncle was just like.. alright, peace, and left him there in Miami. Keep in mind my aunt had already abandoned them at this point. So basically my cousin is entirely self made and has a wonderful life, no thanks to his family. We just recently got back in touch because his dad basically never told us where they were once my aunt abandoned them. It's really sad, too, because my mom wanted to adopt all 3 boys just to keep them from being in the life they ended up being in. My paternal grandfather (whole different story there) took them for a while and well, he was never one to do a bang-up job in the parenting section so obviously they didn't have a good home life.


Anyway, that's all I feel like mentioning for my family at the moment. Eric's side is just as good. He has a first cousin who molested his former step-daughter (5th grade) and now he lives with his mom and races lawn mowers.

12/26/2012 5:21:42 PM

got a cousin who went to prison for murder

shot and killed a guy who was beating on his trailer while my cousin was inside smoking drugs

he went out the back door, then around to the side near the front corner and claims to have fired a warning shot with a .22 cal rifle while the guy was at the front door

the "warning shot" hit the guy in the temple and killed him

cousin got several years in prison, got out early for good behavior

got messed up again with the wrong crowd, started poppin pills all the time and lost his job

ended up getting in a head on collision while on something, did a small stint in jail

supposed to be clean now, but signs of drug abuse are creepin back

12/26/2012 5:52:12 PM

The biggest drama my family has ever had was my super nice cousin divorcing her pretty nice husband and then marrying a super nice guy within a year or so.


I feel sort of slighted

12/27/2012 2:15:18 AM

^^^

What do you think can be done to help people like that? Obviously prison is worthless, and doesn't seem like the gov. ass. does anything for them.

Having good extended family doesn't seem to help either.

I wonder if while in prison, since they have no other choice, if they were somehow educated would that even make a difference?

12/27/2012 2:19:51 AM

no, because we all know employers discriminate against people with a record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_consequences_of_criminal_conviction_(U.S.)

12/27/2012 3:15:26 AM

Considering my mom and aunt paid for a divorce lawyer multiple times for my addict aunt, moved her away and into a nice place, helped her get a job, etc etc, I think the only thing that would make her change her tune is to OD. Same with my cousin, especially since we moved her 13 hours away to NC and she was so terrible we sent her back. I'm not even sure losing her future kid to CPS would make my cousin stop, and I'm shocked it hasn't happened to my aunt yet.

And I don't thin I education would do a damn thing. But getting out of Mississippi might.

[Edited on December 27, 2012 at 9:36 AM. Reason : .]

12/27/2012 9:35:03 AM

can't help anyone who won't help themselves

12/27/2012 9:45:31 AM

^

Truth

12/27/2012 9:49:46 AM

i've got an aunt who is a sister wife. everyone just pretends they don't know. she's a lunatic anyway. like, a total wacko, heavily medicated.

12/27/2012 9:35:21 PM

I was informed over Christmas that my other 20 year old cousin had moved in with her mother in law because the husband didn't like being away from his mama. His mama's husband lives there too, he's 24 lol

The hilarious thing is that they apparently live in a double wide of two trailers that are not a set. I did not know you could just squish two trailers together and hope for the best

[Edited on December 27, 2012 at 11:30 PM. Reason : Jn]

12/27/2012 11:29:13 PM

^^report the hubby for bigamy and watch the lulz fly

12/28/2012 12:36:41 AM

my dad told me I have a half brother when I was 16, who was very close to my age

he said he had just found out a couple of years before that

my dad's first wife evidently failed to let him know she was pregnant with his son and just let her 2nd husband raise him as his own.

he's never met my dad and we've never met.

kinda makes me sad.

12/28/2012 12:40:28 AM

Quote :

"(she talks like ghetto white girl, but also has a lisp, crazy combo)"

I've spoken to a gas-station attendant who sounded just like this.

12/28/2012 10:26:01 AM

Not that crazy, but fairly weird considering I've never known about this:



My mom grew up in Lumberton, NC. She remembers when the first black girl attended her elementary school. Lumberton wasn't "segretated" per se, but considering all the black folks lived on one side of the tracks, and the white folks lived on the other, it pretty much was a divided county.

At any rate, a little black girl named Alice was in her 4th grade class. She even has her old class picture, where she's standing next to Alice. Some of the class were a little scared, some were a little mean, but since my family was poor and Grandpa worked right along with black people all the time, it wasn't a big deal for my Mom and her and Alice became friends.

Later, Alice moved to NY. My mom never heard from her again. But eventually, she got really into the Black Panther movement and changed her name to Afeni Shakur.

Then she gave birth to a son named Tupac.



Mind=Blown

12/28/2012 11:07:59 AM

holy shit - that's pretty cool

12/28/2012 11:56:18 AM

That's pretty awesome. My mom also has some good stories from when they started integrating her classes. But no famous hip-hop moms.

12/28/2012 11:57:02 AM

So I don't have any crazy doped up relatives in my family but I thought this would be thread worthy:

A little background first: My grandmother was one of the first women to graduate from NCSU, she got a degree in teaching, and met my grandfather shortly after college. They tried for several years to conceive a child, but by the time they were in their 30's they decided to adopt my mom and her brother (my uncle). She was a baby ~1 and he was 3, they weren't blood related, just from the same orphanage.

My mom, didn't have any relationship issues since she was so young when adopted. My uncle on the other hand was very attached to my grandparents since he had been through a few families before my they adopted him. For a long time he wouldn't let my grandparents out of his sight, he was always afraid they would leave him. As he got older, this just translated into an extremely close, though healthy, relationship to my grandmother. My grandmother fostered this and she treated him like her own special angel. My mom was loved and treated fairly, but never saw the same "on high" treatment my uncle got, as a result she became close to my grandfather and turned into a 60s era tomboy.

So about a year ago my mom and dad got a call from a man in Texas. He introduced himself, we'll call him Dr. Niceguy, and told them he too had been adopted as a child and was quite a bit older than my parents, 10-15 years I think. He was trying to research his biological parents and was only able to find his mother, which he identified as my grandmother. My parents were a little hesitant about his story since my grandparents were unable to conceive a child of their own. They took down his contact information and hung up the phone.

My dad immediately sits down to start researching this guy. He types in "Dr. Niceguy" into google and TONS of information pops up about this guy. He grew up in eastern NC near the Wilson, Rocky Mount area. Got his PHD and taught at Barton College. He met a woman, married her and moved back to her hometown in Texas where he eventually moved out of teaching and took a job as president at the local college. His wife's family is in the oil industry and they live in a house in town and weekend at a ranch about an hour outside of town that takes up about half the county. The college website has a bunch of information on him including awards, video lectures, keynote speaker recordings, as well as several buildings named in his honor. He's retired from the college, but spends his days giving speeches and fundraising.

My parents figure this guy isn't trying to scam them since he clearly isn't in need of money or fame so they call him back. Together they're all able to piece together some of my grandmother's history. Turns out that while she was at NCSU, she got pregnant. She took a semester off and snuck away to a woman's' home where she gave birth to Dr. Niceguy in secret, turned him over to an orphanage immediately and went back to finish school. Any problems conceiving later on were a result of age or my grandfather (which is likely since he struggled with several war injuries).

The closeness my uncle had to my grandmother and his odd nature at this point in his life (he takes change very hard) has been a big reason my mom has decided not to tell him about Dr. Niceguy. To my mom, Dr. Niceguy is the answer to a lot of problems she had understanding why my uncle got such special treatment as a child. It's clear she treated my uncle special since she had to give up her biological son. Mom's convinced that this information would destroy my uncle emotionally since his world revolved around my grandparents up until their deaths.

In the last year my parents have sent Dr Niceguy a few personal items of my grandmother's to test and verified that he is my grandmother's son. He also brought my parent's down to Texas and hosted them for a week or so since all of his family was coming into town for a big birthday bash in his honor. Mom said they couldn't walk down the street without strangers stopping him to talk and wish him a happy birthday. They talked to several people and found that Dr. Niceguy is THE man about town. The whole county loves and respects him, people buy him drinks, come to the table at restaurants to congratulate or thank him for something. He has a reputation as a brilliant speaker and is known for putting entire audience's in tears, which my parents saw at his birthday celebration when the entire town came out and he got up and gave a speech about his search for his mother and finding my mom. My dad said every woman in the place was in tears and that even he shed a few.

And even though there is no blood relationship between my mom and Dr. Niceguy, he had begun to refer to her as his sister-of-sorts, and his whole family has started doing the same. They've basically adopted my mom as an aunt into the family and every time he comes to NC (He has a grandson at Duke) he makes plans to spend time with her.



[Edited on December 28, 2012 at 1:25 PM. Reason : Sorry for the length]

12/28/2012 1:15:29 PM

That is an awesome story.

12/28/2012 1:39:45 PM

Wow it is an amazing story indeed. Thanks for sharing!

12/28/2012 2:27:53 PM

WOW...that is so neat that your mom can have a relationship with him. Is your mom ever going to tell your uncle? Such a great story!

12/28/2012 2:49:19 PM

Thanks for the response, it's been an exciting year for my mom as far as this is concerned. She talks our ears off about it since she can't really talk about Dr Niceguy amongst family and friends.

And my money's on her never telling my uncle, and I think she's right in that regard. She was always loved by her parents, but it was clear my uncle was the favorite. The appearance of Dr Niceguy hasn't sullied my mom's perception of my grandmother at all, in fact it has answered so many questions that my mom feels better towards my grandmother in the end.

My uncle on the other hand has a much different perception of my grandparents. They were saints in his eyes who made no mistakes. He used to be fairly conservative and traditional (he was a catholic priest for a long time), though has since started to become a little more open minded about certain things, and the idea of his mother having a child out of wedlock and giving it up would be a hard pill to swallow, especially since it's a big reason for why he and her had the relationship they did.

I think to telling him would rob him of something.

12/28/2012 4:20:58 PM

Quote :

"But eventually, she got really into the Black Panther movement and changed her name to Afeni Shakur. Then she gave birth to a son named Tupac."

I will end all stories with this from now on.

12/29/2012 12:41:43 PM

^ I totally missed that one because of the last confession from MtanMan214.
That just blew my mind as well.

12/29/2012 12:44:19 PM

The details of AxlBonBach's story check out; Afeni's birth name really was Alice, and she really did grow up in Lumberton, NC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afeni_Shakur

12/29/2012 12:48:26 PM

i feel like maybe she should tell your uncle because if he found out on his own later the results might be much worse. but i don't know your family, just thinking about it in the context of myself and my own family. very neat story though.

12/29/2012 1:18:10 PM

Yeah seems like it makes sense for the uncle to know.

regarding Tupac, how did the mom find out that tupac was her childhood friends's son?

12/29/2012 1:25:09 PM

so is ABB related to Tupac or not? I am totes confused

12/29/2012 1:26:27 PM

^no, but their mothers were friends in elementary school.

12/29/2012 1:37:44 PM

I thought everyone knew that Afeni Shakur grew up in eastern NC? Maybe it ws just because he was my favorite growing up.

12/29/2012 2:15:24 PM

My mom had a friend in elementary school with the last name Smalls. She eventually had a son and named him Biggie.

12/29/2012 2:19:36 PM

Biggie's real name was Christopher George Latore Wallace

[Edited on December 29, 2012 at 5:02 PM. Reason : 2Pac's real name really was Tupac Amaru Shakur

12/29/2012 5:02:11 PM

My aunt has been married 5 times to 3 men. One of them 3 times. The same guy she divorced twice for trying to kill her. One by throwing a hair dryer into the bath tub she was in and another attacking her with a knife. Luckily her oldest son was there and stopped him. They broke things off about 2 years ago on peaceful terms.

She works for a rehabilitation center. Where she met him and treated him for alcohol and drug abuse.

I was very young even the last time he tried to kill her but remember my dad and 2 uncles going to pay him a visit. My dad still won't tell me what happened.

[Edited on December 29, 2012 at 5:20 PM. Reason : .]

12/29/2012 5:19:13 PM

Quote :

"They tried to raise 6 kids and 2 other adults in a 2 bedroom house, with no toilet and no running water except for the sink. So they lived somewhere for 6 months while it was cleaned up and fixed by someone, the family has no clue where they went or who cleaned it up. "

lol pronoun collisions!

So they lived somewhere else for 6 months and they didn't know where they were living...

12/29/2012 8:07:52 PM

Alright, I've got one for you. My family is quite screwed up. My mom's side is a mess, my dad's side is fairly normal. But this story is about my brother. I'll try to make this as brief as possible.

Backstory: My oldest brother (7 years older than me, 32 now), has always been a screw up. He is messing around with 2-3 girls at a time (trash of course), and always gets caught. The past 10 or so years has been the same process. Date girl A, move in with girl A, get caught with girl B, get kicked out from girl A's, move back home with dad, move in with girl B, get caught with girl C.......and so on. His last 4 or 5 girlfriends have come from MY senior class. All trash

Story: After being kicked out cheating on his last girlfriend with Girl 1, he moved back in with my dad. He dated Jessica for a month or so, until he broke up with her to date Jennifer, Jessica's best friend since high school (both from my senior class). About 6-7 months later we find out Jennifer is pregnant, the first grandbaby in the family. [I have to add in that our family found out through her posting pictures of the stick on Facebook. It was about 2 weeks later he finally told my dad.] She gets about a month in and we find out that she had a miscarriage. Hugh sigh of relief for the family. About a month or two later I get a phone call from my grandma. Apparently Jessica had just given birth to my brother's son. He knew the ENTIRE time, and didnt tell any of us until 2 weeks after he was born.

Jennifer stayed around for a while, but eventually broke up with my brother and has since gone crazy. My brother moved in with baby-mama, but was quickly caught texting 4 or 5 different girls, so she kicked him out.The baby is about 8 months old now. My brother has since started dating a new girl, this one is over 40 years old and has 20 and 18 year old sons.

The baby is cute though, I just worry about what kind of chances it has in life,

12/29/2012 9:44:38 PM

AxlBonBach and Mtan Man FTW! Especially Mtan Man. fuckin' awesome.

12/29/2012 10:04:11 PM

^Thanks. The great thing about the anonymous nature of the internet is I can share it here without repercussion.

And to those that think my Uncle should be told: Those in-the-know have struggled with this question since we found out. You'd REALLY have to know him well to understand my mom's choice.

12/30/2012 12:00:17 AM