Crazy Relativescurvylittlegoth writes, "My Grandma is crazy, crazy mad. As well as regularly putting curses on us all, she once fell asleep in the armchair on a sunny afternoon, Barley Wine in one hand, Peter Stuyveson in the other, only to wake up several hours later to a Darth Vader sounding fireman. She thought she was in HELL as the smoke and flames billowed round her..."
Are any of your relatives this loopy?
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chthonic, Thu 5 Jul 2007, 15:59)
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My Uncle DorisI'm not sure if this is me being the crazy relative. Anyway, here goes.
My Nan's sister Doris. For years I though, and still think, that she is infact a man.
Now, I have very precise logic on this one. When you are young (about 4), men do certain things and look a certain way. The same applies to women, in a young child's mind women do certain things and look a certain way, this is how you define a man from a woman.
Lets not get into the whole, take a look at the other end business.
So, for years I thought that I was humouring my whole family by calling my Nan's sister "Aunt Doris". Quite clearly in my mind she was a man, so thus she should be called "Uncle Doris"
(s)He used to ride a motorbike, have a job, a greenhouse in which various fruits and vegetables were grown, go out drinking with her friends and ALWAYS wore trousers.
All in all, I must have seen her in a skirt in three times. I seriously thought that it was some sort of public indecency, because of course to a 4 year old a man doesn't dress in women's clothes. Again I thought that I was humouring my family by not saying anything.
She was always very forgetful and would often run through a load of family names before getting to yours. Which actually was really good because I have heard of relations that I didn't know about. Apparently I do look a lot like Audrey.
(, Tue 10 Jul 2007, 14:55, Reply)
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