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To ask about your weirdest holiday family stories (lighthearted)?

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YeahLikeNoThough · 01/01/2020 22:37

... lighthearted. While I've had my issues with my crazy father in the past, I've learned to cope and to develop a dark sense of humour about his antics.

And, yes, I've NC. This has got to be identifiable. I hope think. I mean, there can't be too many of the sort out there, surely?

Anyway. So, Christmas with the family was lovely, all in all. Except for the night when I went for dinner and a drink with my normally low-contact father, and my dad accused me of working for the Illuminati. Basically.

Now, my dad is a bit of a narcissist and, more pertinently, a dyed-in-the-wool conspiracy nut. Hence the low-contact situation.

I am pretty normal and generally unexciting for the most part. But, again pertinent, I've a great job as an executive for a really large firm. Also, my current boss used to be employed by the US government, which he would seem to be aware of for some reason.

So we're a couple of drinks in and dad gets emotional. And then he comes out with ...

"Well, I know I've not always been the best of fathers - but I do love you and I need you to promise me something: you'll need to change that job of yours when your reptiloid boss starts asking you to participate in the human sacrifices!"

He was dead serious, too!

Sometimes I seriously wonder how come I turned out reasonably normal. Confused

Please tell me other people have thoroughly weird family members, too!

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perkele · 01/01/2020 22:51

You'll be laughing on the other side of your face when your reptiloid boss starts asking you to participate in the human sacrifices!

YeahLikeNoThough · 01/01/2020 22:57

Well, given my current rank I should have thought I would at the very least have been given my initiates robes. And maybe an invitation to some mild entry level chanting and incense burning type thing?

I mean, there's just NO WAY IN HELL that I'm going to be part of an evil Satanic conspiracy to achieve world domination unless there's some seriously awesome costumes! Grin

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tickyandtackyandjackiebackie · 01/01/2020 23:08

Costumes yes!.....Or at least badges.....

Cherrysoup · 01/01/2020 23:13

Omg, are there long red velvet robes and flickering lanterns in underground spaces with lots of stone and oddly shaped silver ornaments?? (Channelling Buffy, god, how I loved that show! Helloooo, Spike!)

I’m so in, OP, tell me where to meet and I’ll bring the human sacrifice crisps.

YippeeKayakOtherBuckets · 01/01/2020 23:14

My SIL told me that BIL wants her to look for a job now that their son is at secondary school.

She said, completely seriously, that there is no way she can go out to work while she has such a young child at home.

He is 12.

I have worked since my children were toddlers.

I had had one or two gins so I’m afraid I wasn’t very polite in my response. It’s not the first time she’s said that to me either.

Rollonspringtime2020 · 01/01/2020 23:16

Op I feel I am able to offer you up some unwanted family members suitable for sacrificing...
Firstly mil.

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 01/01/2020 23:24

My dad used to run the hoover on the front lawn to "show the neighbours what it was like" if he felt they had been too noisy.

He also forbid us on pain of corporal punishment to speak to the very sweet, lonely, elderly lady next door because she watered her garden at times he didn't approve of.

He decided that a man who once cut him up in a carpark was "an armed criminal - or else, how would he dare?" This was 20 years ago and he still sometimes alludes to it.

I could go on 🙄

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 01/01/2020 23:27

Actually none of those are holiday stories.

So the time we went on a long road trip and for a whole day he sat in the passenger seat (I was driving,) with a towel draped over his head as if he were pretending to be a ghost because the air conditioning was on too high.

He didn't ask me to turn the AC off.

He just sat for a couple of hundred miles with a bathsheet over his head because "I am more comfortable like this".

Like I say, I could go on.

YeahLikeNoThough · 01/01/2020 23:28

Costumes yes!.....Or at least badges.....

Yeah, no, though! Badges are lame! I demand robes - preferably in a black and red colour scheme - as well as masks. Goat horns would be a really nice touch, too!

flickering lanterns in underground spaces with lots of stone and oddly shaped silver ornaments??

That's a lot more like it. I'll make sure to forwars you the invitation if and when I get it! To be honest, I'm a bit underwhelmed at the notion of pulling the whole thing off in our sleek, glass and steel corporate offices. That's just not the vibe I think we ought to be going for!

Rollonspringtime2020, I'm hoping your DH was an immaculate conception? I mean surely everyone knows that sacrifices need to be virgins? Maybe she'll do as a training piece for new Illuminati. I'll see what I can do once I get in!

YippeeKayakOtherBuckets, see above! She has every reason to need to be around to protect him at all times. At least until he gets a serious girlfriend.

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Tillygetsit · 01/01/2020 23:49

My brother had a mild psychotic episode whilst we were on holiday. He kept commanding the sea to go back and was thrilled each time it did.
He also had a convoluted explanation as to why Captain Kirk and Captain Birdseye were actually the same person and the person in the next room to his in the hotel was Daniel Craig in full face mask so we didnt recognise him. ( He was also about 20 stone so possibly wearing a fat suit too)
My db wasn't violent and was quite jolly about it all. How we got him home without incident I'll never know.

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