Odd Family Members

[NickM]

I reckon class has had more to do with behaviour than income since about the time Orwell published Keep the Aspidistra Flying. So we now have oik/chav class, decent ordinary class, and vulgar overpaid parasite class, and only in the latter case does income have any defining role.

 

[Melvil]

I have three families. One of whom I first really met when I was four. The second about two years ago and the third I've known all my life. Yes. Really. It's a bit complicated.

 

[Baggy]

Oh, sheesh, families...

It took quite a long time for it to sink in that my family wasn't quite like anyone else's, but we all deal with things by either trying to pretend things aren't happening, or driving ourselves mad by coming up with solutions for problems that are being ignored, therefore don't actually need solving

At least two of my closest family suffer from being very intelligent and creative but borderline barking mad, one of which cancels out the other. My siblings haven't spoken in about 20 years...and Mum dreams of happy families.

The family as a whole are a mix of working class/skllied trades/the odd teacher etc. My Dad was the first in our family to not complete a degree, but quick to twig that there might be a future in personal computers in early 1980 but shuld never have been allowed to go into business alone. My Mum never had the opportunity to achieve her full potential either academically, or as a person, which is sad.

I'm somewhere in the middle of all of this - a mixture of being horribly socialised and wanting to toe the line, yet also lazy, cynical and secretly sticking two fingers up to anything and everything.

As you get older you become more wise to the genetic quirks it's worth fighting, and the ones you've just got to accept.

 

[bonj2]

my family are largely normal but have (had) the odd weird ones.
Never speak to most of them, not through beef - just through drifting apart and living in different part of the country and in some cases other countries. My mum's dad and dad's dad were both miners from derbyshire but have all diverged and I don't think there's many types of profession someone in my extended family hasn't done.

 

[mr_hippo]

I have a brother who I have never met. My sister has 4 brothers but I only have three.

 

[bonj2]

I have a brother who I have never met. My sister has 4 brothers but I only have three.

YOU being one of them, presumably

 

[Fnaar]

It'd never registered before, but I was also the first in our family to go to uni.

Ditto here too. Me and my brother remain the only ones. The rest do their best to be downwardly mobile
My grandfather was a dublin sewage worker who brought up 10 kids alone when his wife died age 36 In 1936

 

[Fab Foodie]

My family are just hopeless. Truly hopeless. Some may recall I had a mega New Years Barney with my Mother...followed by a call from my Idle Sister to me what's what...FFS. I'm slowly disowning them, It's not worth the pain. Interestingly when in Therapy last year the Therapist noticed that I referred to my Father (who is dead) in the present tense and my mother (who is still alive) in the past tense...my subconcious speaks volumes.

Fortunately I married into a really nice 'proper' family...they're the ones that are bothered to keep in touch and the ones I love.

 

[yenrod]

Families eh - yuh cant choose em.

dj hippo - fantastic story !!!

 

[Noodley]

Families eh - yuh cant choose em.

Mine did!!