re: Things Family Members Do That Drive You Nuts (Holidays)

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This goes for 99% of women.

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Most of us don’t watch that I hate white people racist shite anymore.

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One thing that bothers me is when someone thinks everyone loves a certain dish they make, but in reality its really not that good.. At best, not anything special

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This brings back a great memory of my mom, who died a few years ago. She was a good cook, but rarely cooked the same thing twice. Trying new recipes is problematic, and she won some and lost some. Invariably, however, she would serve it to you and say, “Your brother RAVED about it.” Meanwhile, my brother was behind her making a face.

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My sister will light a freaking cigarette on the stove at my mom's house and then walk through the entire freaking house with it, every F#$%ing room just waving it around barely smoking on it.

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I would not be attending in the future. Ever.

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They both always bring their dogs with them. We are dog people, so no issue there. However their dogs constantly bark. I understand that they are in an unfamiliar environment and are likely to bark at anything. The issue is neither owner corrects their dogs. It could be 5:30 in the morning and their dogs will be barking for 15 minutes straight. Doesn't matter if they are inside or outside. They just let them bark. If someone says something to the dogs to stop barking, they take it as a personal insult. Probably not the biggest deal in the world. I love that they will make the time and effort to spend time with our family, but just thinking about being woken up randomly by their dogs makes me cringe.

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Barking dogs and owners that ignore them are one of my biggest pet peeves (no pun intended). My neighbor has two dogs that bark a lot at night. And usually they are home and simply ignore it and don't do shite. So one day I finally had enough, and my son was trying to sleep, so I went to our mutual fence and looked over and screamed at that dog and cussed him out (the one that was outside...the other one usually stays inside and yaps). And he tucked his tail between his legs and went back inside. So now when he hears me coming he shuts the frick up and I point inside and he goes, although lately he's been almost barking back at me so it may be time to establish dominance again.

But I can't stand that they just sit there and do nothing about it. Especially when it's at night. I almost lost my shite when the one outside was barking nonstop for like 10 straight minutes on Christmas Eve last year at about 11:00 pm. I finally had to go over to her house and tell her to make him stop barking or I would.

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Dude is a total dick

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Yea but I bet you love him...hell, I'm willing to bet you'd go so far as to kidnap his boss and deliver him to you're cousin with a bow on his head if he was wronged.

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Same. My wife comes from a broken home and tells horror stories of this crap. We do our Christmas at home with the babies and make our own traditions.

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Good on yall...yall doing it right. I remember in early adulthood I let my mom have it over how crappy it was. It was a special kinda fricked up when I heard about other kids Christmas or saw it in the movies..Mine? I was woken up early, presents already unwrapped for me because we had to hit the road to make it my stepdads parents in time for lunch over 3 hours away followed by her parents for dinner. It was fricking miserable....but dammit it was her turn to have me for Christmas. Like I said...over my dead body will my family ever be subjected to shite like that one what is supposed to be a special day.

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found that once we had kids we had all the leverage because everyone wants to see the kids

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this sounds nice, but I just flat out tell people no. There is still a bit of shock that IDGAF about their guilting