Saturday, July 12, 2008

I'm... Just being honest.

*kesi said the black cartoon from the nuvaring commercial looks like me. If you see that commercial lemme know, lol. He said it even has my bathingsuit strut. Its VERY new. I just saw it Monday for the first time.

Is it possible to have your own personal culture? I think my fairly gigantic (did I mention I have a big fam?) family has their own culture. Their own ways. It basically revolves around saying what you feel cuz no one will remember or even maybe hear you anyway.

This comes to my mind because my friend who I went to hs with came to town and we hung out for a day at her parents' house. This same house was the setting of a strange moment for me. Here's what happened:

*Her parents have some pda moment and share a lil cutey pie kiss.
*I say, "ew, old people love!" in a dramatically comedic way.
*Later her dad talks to her for an HOUR about what he feels is my "rudeness."

Now I feel that my mom or dad and their significant others (except notsomuch my dad, as his girlfriend is 12 years old), or even La's parents would have laughed along. Matter of fact, I call La's dad old all the time. He calls me fat. This is our way. Is it because I know them on a different level? Meh. Anyways...

So I kinda walked on eggshells at my friend's house all of 7 years later. Made sure to be the kind of polite I would maybe have been at a church I was visiting. But not my home church in CT, as I know them like family and we too have a rapport. Lol.

For the most part I'm considered colorful and funny, and I know I get that from my mother. She has an opinion and though it can be strong and sometimes really narrow (she once said porn created child molesters), sometimes it can be light and fun too. And she taught us to say what we feel. Sometimes- most times- its taken well. And sometimes people wanna talk about my rudeness for an hour.

Clearly this is something that has affected me from then on. And I'm not the only one that thinks my friend's parents are a lil tight, so...

Anyway, is it strange that I have a cousin who lives around the corner from me and I only communicate with her after work on the trains? I have her number, and she has mine, but we never call or text. Also, I just found out she has 20 brothers and sisters. 20! Not all of them are related to me. But about.... Let's give an estimate here... 12, including her, are. My uncle, the one that likes to scare people, and whose son scared me on the train this past winter, despite the fact that he is a lil slow, has a baseball and a basketball lineup, lol. Man I'm stopping at 4. I don't know what I'll do to stop after that, but shoot its clear my fam is hella fertile.

And I'm gonna see them really soon! I'm not gonna share too many details cuz they end up falling through, but I'm going home! Wooo!
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3 comments:

All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalo said...

i do
nothing wrong wioth personal belief orientations
but never walk on egg shells - b assertive always

Southerner in Suomi said...

I think this just shows that her parents are unhappy people and want to steal other people's joy. Don't let 'em!!

Jameil said...

my fam are too fertile, too. 20 brothers and sisters tho? no indeed. NO INDEED!! you've told the old people love story before. that sucks that you were so impacted by it. i like the blending i can do in my large family. makes things much easier that way. and you can bring all kinds of people in and out and they're barely noticed until the show up 3+ times. lol.