Tickles And Licking And Bites, Oh My
Car | USA(My family and my aunt, uncle, and cousin are driving somewhere.) Mom: “There’s not enough room for all of us in the car!” Uncle: “It’s fine. [Cousin] can sit on the floor in the back.” Mom:...
View ArticleA New Level Of Incompetence
Home | BelgiumAunt: *very excited* “Come and see. I hung a new rack in the bathroom.” (We all squeeze in her bathroom and are baffled, as no carpenter’s eye is needed to see the rack is far from level....
View ArticleGrave Of Their Childhoods
Home | ON, Canada(I have an aunt who receives an emergency call and has to leave her five-year-old son and her four-year-old niece at home with their elder sister for a very short while. She decides...
View ArticleTrumpeting Their Opinion
Home | CT, USA(We have recently gotten a trumpet for my youngest sister, and some of my other relatives are visiting the house. It should be noted that I and my sisters are all musicians, but while we...
View ArticleEvery Family Has THAT Uncle
Home | USA(My mom and her brother have recently been reunited, and he is a little, um strange.) Mom: *sobbing hard* “Oh, [Uncle]! I thought we’d never see you again! Thank goodness you’re alive!”...
View ArticleNo Singing A-Loud
Car | Santa Fe, NM, USA(My uncle is taking my three little cousins all under the age of seven and my grandmother to a museum. They are singing.) Uncle: “Quiet, [Cousin #1] and [Cousin #2]. Stop...
View ArticleAmerican Thign Language
Home | Gresham, OR, USA(My uncle has come into town for a day to help out with some family stuff and I go downstairs to greet him using sign language. I’m not deaf but I’m planning on taking a sign...
View ArticleAmazonian Pillow Talk
Home | CT, USA(My cousin is looking at her Amazon wish list on her phone, as it’s getting near the holidays.) Cousin: “Everything that’s in my Amazon cart is literally everything I need to live a happy...
View ArticleMeet The Blunt Family
Home | USA(My family doesn’t mince words. An aunt is calling the house, asking for my dad.) Me: “Dad is out at the moment. He’ll be back in a bit.” Aunt: “Who is this?” Me: “This is [My Name]. The...
View ArticleWould Rather Not Horse Around With The Family
Vacation | USA(We are on a family vacation — grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. My family has rented two cabins; the one I’m in has my parents, one aunt, her two kids, and I. The resort we are...
View ArticleWho Is The Most Shameful?
Home | USA(My uncle, aunt, and their two sons are visiting. My brother, I, and my cousins are playing soccer in the backyard. For some reason, they decide to team up against me, and I manage to get...
View ArticleThe Other Man From Uncle
(I live with my aunt and grandparents my first year in college and they have recently gotten a new phone number, so we got the occasional call looking for the previous owner. We don’t have caller ID.)...
View ArticleForgotten Already
Family Gathering | Finland(I am at my aunt’s place at a family gathering. My uncle has had problems with his memory for some time and has recently lost his driver’s license after getting lost while...
View ArticleSentenced To Happy Ever After
Wedding | Austria(My sister and husband just got married. I’m the maid of honor and easily moved by romantic stuff, so when congratulating them I begin to cry a lot. While hugging my mom, my uncle...
View ArticleMaking A Oat-Meal Out Of It
Home | KY, USA(I have only been married a few months when I take some homemade cookies to a family dinner with my extended in-laws. One of my husband’s aunts really loves them and asks for the recipe....
View ArticleDone With The Family Niceties
Park | KY, USA(We are at my boyfriend’s family reunion down in Kentucky and his family is doing a volleyball tournament in 95 degree heat. I have on sunglasses, a tank top, and shorts with my hair up....
View ArticleNot Cool Daddy Cool
Home | Springfield, TN, USA(I was an evil child when I was younger. I am around five years old and my uncle wants to be nice and takes me to Chuckie Cheese. However, as we’re standing in line, I am...
View ArticleTime To Face The Mess
Restaurant | NC, USA(My aunt and cousin are visiting and my mom and I have a girls’ day out with them. Towards the end of the day, we stop at a coffee shop for a snack. I order a milk and an...
View ArticleA Related Issue
Family Gathering | Okanagan Falls, BC, Canada(We’re at a massive family reunion and taking a huge picture of everyone. My cousin has brought her boyfriend of a year or so.) Cousin: “Can [Boyfriend] be...
View ArticlePokémon Go And Study!
Home | Melbourne, VIC, Australia(My mum’s side of the family is Vietnamese and my childhood life has followed nearly every Asian stereotype to the letter — think 24/7 studying, expectations of A+ for...
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