I found out my brother had been in rehab for three weeks from my mother -- who mentioned it in passing.
You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Aug 03, 2005 8:50:50 am PDT #5364 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Allyson - Aug 03, 2005 8:52:44 am PDT #5365 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I think we're from the same family, Theodosia.
Gudanov - Aug 03, 2005 8:55:27 am PDT #5366 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Maybe next week, Theodosia's mom will mention her long-lost little sister living on the west coast.
Connie Neil - Aug 03, 2005 8:59:42 am PDT #5367 of 10002
brillig
Maybe next week, Theodosia's mom will mention her long-lost little sister living on the west coast.
Don't laugh, several years ago my MIL finally admitted that yes, her mother was still alive and, by the way, did we know she had a brother? The only reason it came out was because said mother and brother were putting ads in the papers of Utah trying to find her and someone she knew pointed it out.
Glamcookie - Aug 03, 2005 9:01:01 am PDT #5368 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
It's oddly comforting to know that I'm not the only one who has a craxy family that doesn't tell me really important stuff.
sarameg - Aug 03, 2005 9:02:00 am PDT #5369 of 10002
I didn't know about my half-uncle until I was 11. And grandma's first husband wasn't brought up until I was 16.
In all cases, it wasn't a big secret, everyone just assumed everyone else knew.
Which might explain my brother. And that was only a couple month's delay.
Vortex - Aug 03, 2005 9:02:35 am PDT #5370 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I was just debating whether to ask for some health~ma in Press, and it occurred to me that the Buffista "-ma" tradition is tantamount to prayer
true, but it allows everyone to give ~ma the way they like to. some people will pray to a Christian god that everything will go okay, some will ask Gaia, some will light a candle on an home altar. ~ma=prayers=blessings=good wishes=happy thoughts.
And, we're _giving_ you the ~ma, not forcing it on you :)
I suddenly have a vision of seeing someone sneeze on the street and saying "I'm sending you health~ma" snerk.
Calli - Aug 03, 2005 9:05:01 am PDT #5371 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I suddenly have a vision of seeing someone sneeze on the street and saying "I'm sending you health~ma" snerk.
When I picture this, the ~ma-er sort of wiggles his/her fingers at the sneezer. No idea why.
Connie Neil - Aug 03, 2005 9:07:24 am PDT #5372 of 10002
brillig
Oh, yeah, then there was finding out about my husband's other kid, who predated the daughter I knew about by about ten years. "I must have told you," he said. "I would remember," I replied.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2005 9:08:56 am PDT #5373 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I once mentioned to a cousin that her mother had a glass eye.
She was pissed.
I assume she was projecting her anger at me, because it's not like I COULD HAVE HAD ANY IDEA SHE DIDN'T KNOW.
Took me a while to work out my father's parents were never married to each other. But I guess no one ever told me they were.