Holiday Fighting With Your Parents

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My parents told me I was 'too argumentative' when I took issue with my sister saying that women would never describe sex scenes in Lolita as erotic because women lack a 'literary prostate', and then with the fact that she said my cousin definitely does not have a boyfriend because 'she's too tall'.

Do anybody else fight like this? What do you fight about? How do you resolve it?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 27 December 2002 05:06 (twenty-three years ago)

New 'fuck you pass the turkey' answers

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 27 December 2002 05:06 (twenty-three years ago)

You don't know how easy you've got it. Half of my family has joined the Canadian Alliance Party - going home feels like a recruitment camp.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 27 December 2002 05:25 (twenty-three years ago)

You know not pain, you have not suffered until you have been forced to play "Musical Pass the Parcel"!

― smee (smee), Friday, 27 December 2002 08:46 (twenty-three years ago)

dude you got it light, we had a bust up lasting five days over integrity and honesty. and what's this about women not having a literary prostrate? you been fucking the wrong books.

― Queen G (Queeng), Friday, 27 December 2002 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

My mom was in the hospital for a week before xmas. The fights consisted of me ringing the doorbell when my stepdad had made it clear she was resting.

He softened when I presented him with a well thought out gifty of a keychain tool thing. Noone loves my stepdad so he is prone to tenderness.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 27 December 2002 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

theydon't get in touch officially a hellish bummer

― [email protected], Friday, 27 December 2002 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Kim - def. an epidemic of that kind of thing out West at least, if the reports I get from home are any indication

― dave q, Friday, 27 December 2002 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

My step-mom hates me & my sisters. We hadn't seen her since last xmas b/c she avoids being there when we come visit my dad. But there wasn't any arguing going on there, just lots of rude staring and remarks on her part. Oh, lovey dovey.

But there was lots of fun arguing in my immediate family about my sister possibly being OCD and her rejecting most of her presents ("Yeah, we're gonna have to return this..."). Then some crying and hugging. Then happiness again. My family is really really emotional.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 December 2002 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

My family, and father imparticular, always wheel out comments about me being just like my awful older brother. amd always try not to throw things or burst into tears.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 27 December 2002 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean, throw toffees?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 December 2002 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum tells me every 5-10 minutes that my hair is a mess and I must like to look ugly to wear it like that. Then she tries to comb it, I don't let her comb it. Then a few minutes of calm and she says it again. Sometimes I get annoyed and scream a bit, but most of the time I make my mind into cold fish. That's why I left home.

― mario 3 (mario), Saturday, 28 December 2002 03:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Shreddies usually, Sarah.

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 28 December 2002 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

dave, if they lived out west I could almost understand - but they're in Eastern Ontario. They're freaks!

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 28 December 2002 04:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Your family discusses Lolita and says things like "literary prostate?"

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 28 December 2002 05:03 (twenty-three years ago)

What is a literary prostate, anyway?

― OCP (OCP), Saturday, 28 December 2002 05:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I've told this story too many times, but I just have to tell it again. Three Thanksgivings ago, I went alone to visit my family. No man in tow. So we're all at the Thanksgiving table, and my sister makes some comment about how she read all these great reviews for Patch Adams. So I say, "What reviews are YOU reading? Everything I read was bad." All of a sudden, my dad starts screaming at me, "Why do you have to contradict your sister, why do you have to be a bitch? Maybe Patch Adams is a great movie!" So I'm taken aback, my sister seems sort of taken aback too - like she was annoyed that I brought my sophisticated NY movie critisicm to the table, I guess, but not nearly annoyed enough that I was a "bitch" - so me and my dad start arguing. This turns into a screaming match which ends in me yelling "I just think Patch Adams looks like shit. You don't have to be a bastard about it" and running off to lock myself into the room that used to be mine (it's now a workout room). About a half hour later, my dad knocks. I refuse to answer at first because I'm still pissed but eventually I get up, and he apologizes, "I don't know why I got so pissed off, I guess I was thinking of something else" blah blah blah.

So then he says, "Um, is your mother in here? Have you seen her?" Apparently my mother was so distraught over this Patch Adams debacle that she ran off when I left the table, not to be seen again. So we go hunting for her. About two hours later, she's found, hiding in a corner in the garage. I had to coax her out, and we sat around goofing off for a while. Then, like a 12 year old, I snuck outside to smoke and blow off steam, because me and my mom were still pretending I didn't smoke.

This past year, my dad actually saw Patch Adams. He apologized - "You were right. It WAS shit."

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 28 December 2002 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I really liked that movie.

― OCP (OCP), Saturday, 28 December 2002 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't fight with my parents over Christmas really, except yesterday when they came home and went insane at me for being in bed and it took me 10 minutes to explain I'd been sick from something or other.

But I'm feeling better now and ready to inflict more pain on my body tonight!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 28 December 2002 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I avoided this problem by staying well away from my mother over Christmas.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 28 December 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes this was WHY i did not go home for the holidays. Especially as I'm graduating now and have already been inundated over the phone w/ "how are you going to get a job??" interrogations, since I majored in a fucking non-traditional field. Plus, we're Hindu, so it's nt like I get anything anyway. I had more fun these holidays being here w/ all of you!!

― Vic (Vic), Saturday, 28 December 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

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