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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Unfortunately, this.

    I have talked to the children in my family over the last 20 years.

    My first cousin who is half my age… I told her to question everything! She replied, “that’s right. Question everything but mommy, daddy, and god.” I said, “No. I literally mean everything. Mommy, daddy, god, and everything else.”

    I really thought I got somewhere with her. She’s 18 now. I got nowhere. I could be wrong. I’m going to try to spend time with her soon now that she’s an adult.

    My younger 1st cousins once removed, I said similar things. Two are preachers (despite their dad getting caught with a man and coming out of the closet, destroyIng a 20+ year marriage), one joined the army despite everything I said, and another is attending America’s last snake handling church.

    I don’t think I’ve moved any of them.

    I planted seeds though. But when everyone around them is planting weeds, the decent plants can’t compete.

    Breaks my goddamn heart.

    I have reached kids outside of my family, but way way way way less than I haven’t.

    Still. It’s worth it to try.



  • I’m not ugly, but I’m the least attractive member of my family.

    My brother looked like a Greek god, my sister looked like a model. My dad was so sought after that his name was spray painted all over our town with hearts and love confessions. Bridges, buildings, love for him was everywhere. He was chased by women aged 18-90.

    I was born with crossed eyes and had to have a corrective surgery. Every man in my family is over 6ft tall and I’m only 5’7. I still randomly message my mother to thank her for going through with the surgery.

    I definitely lost the lottery, but it could have been worse.










  • I’m a nice fellow who provides free internet to all of my neighbors.

    It’s a pain sometimes.

    I worry about the teenager upstairs, but all the others are old ladies and it doesn’t bother me a bit…until I want to do something serious.

    I’m about to (tax time) invest in a router that allows me to control their bandwidth. It’s free, so if 20mbps don’t work for them they can pay for it.

    I will open up the kid’s PS5 so he can game. His laptop is getting 10mbps though.

    Old ladies rocking 4k to sleep is too much.

    They don’t pay for internet so they get the good good on their services. I’m too sorry and antisocial to go deal with it.


  • Ooooh I got one better! My bunch had a chestnut shell war that pitted kids from one holler against another holler (hollow, but properly pronounced. :p). The smallest kid was captured and thrown into a pile of chestnut shells and kicked around until he was bloody from head to toe after the two groups formed an alliance against the weakest member.

    That kid today is covered in tattoos from head to toe that look like a kindergartener drew all over him. Folks call him Gump. He is all sorts of messed up.

    I ran when it started and the next day I heard, “Look at sissy over ‘ere. He ain’t got no scabs ‘cause he ran away like a lil queer!”

    Edit: Was making the comment about Tim the sex pest and remembered that Gump was on the registry too. Something about hillbillies and incest. Damn.