Society is clearly finished, just like all the other times.
Been trying to organise a family dinner for my parents' 40th wedding anniversary in Sunday. Unfortunately it's also Easter Sunday. They wanted to go to the restaurant of the hotel they had their wedding reception at. Fair enough. Got it booked without any problem. As it's Easter Sunday and they expect to be busy they're running a set menu. Again, fine, it looks pretty decent so no complaints.
Then my cousin (eldest, female, not the annoying young idiot one I used to post about sometimes, although this is his mum) has now said she can't go after initially agreeing because her nine year old daughter won't eat off the kids' menu and will only eat a steak. But won't manage all three courses of the set menu and she's not paying that much for a child.
So now her, her husband and her daughter aren't going.
I even tried to be accommodating by trying to book Saturday (normal menu) instead but the restaurant was closed for a wedding. Suggested we all get together the following weekend and I just take my parents out on Sunday but she's away in Portugal then. Then she suggested changing both the day (Sunday is their actual anniversary) and the venue (this place is where they had their wedding reception, plus not a chance getting a table big enough on the Saturday of Easter weekend now anywhere else). I asked my dad what he thought and he just said "Just keep it how it is everyone else is happy to come. I'm not being held to ransom by a fucking spoilt brat of a nine year old."
Edit: that's longer than I thought it was going to be but I got carried away.
Tl;dr - family and/or organising people to do anything are both fucking annoying.
Fair play to your dad. Not fair play to the morons who've raised a kid who'll only eat the steak of whatever is on offer
Their kid is a prick tbh.
Your dad's reaction is the correct one. My kids are 3 and 6. Our 3 year old is fussy, but we get on with it. Imagine asking people to change the date and venue because Wee Wendy doesn't like anything. Just have a plate of chips and stfu.
Back just before Christmas her dad was talking about some Hugo Boss tracksuit he got her for Christmas that cost something stupid like £2-300. It wasn't even her main present.
I was like "She'll have grown out of it in six months!"
"Yeah, but you should see it, it's really nice."
These people are not particularly wealthy. They're just idiots.
The mum's brother told me before they have shitloads of credit card debt. I'm not surprised.
That's even stupider if you don't have the money for it.
Just say no to the little cunt.
A 9 year old that will only eat steak
Fucking Christ. You went to approximately a million percent more effort to try to accommodate that shit than I would've done Boyd.
All this for a cousin, as well. I wouldn't recognise most of my cousins if I saw them in the street.
What a knobhead kid. Tell them to fuck off.
Excellent response. Similar issues in ours with brother in law's girlfriend's kids. They can't go on holiday because she is scared of planes, etc.
How is your cousins parent also your cousin?
Or
How is your cousins child also your cousin?
Igor has already cleared that up I believe.
I think your cousin's child is your cousin once removed, so if they're part of a big weird family of inbreds like that lot then you would probably just call them all 'cousin'.
I once posted that people who are best mates/overly close with their cousins are freaks and Yevrah got all shirty with me.
I have seven cousins (all on the same side of the family) and fucking hate at least six of them. Every single one of them has a stupid and/or laughable life worthy of one of my self-indulgent essay posts full of swear words. I've come to the conclusion that cousins/uncles/aunts aren't worth a fart unless you happen to like them, in which case go forth and multiply (well, not like that).
Even as a member of a big boomer family, I've never been close with my cousins.
I reckon it's at least a decade since I've spoken to any of my cousins.
I have two cousins, one is a massive neckbeard. Super fucking smart, just not built for this world. Got a first in maths from Cambridge, was writing his own fucking language (not computer code, more in a Tolkien way) when he was a teenager, that kind of shit. Hope he's alright.
His older brother seemed a lot more normal, was living in Leeds for years with his girlfriend. Then I added him on Facebook and it was fucking deranged. He was making his own weird memes, but he was posting them all day every day, and they were all specifically about FLEXITIME. Like Linehan levels of monomania, but not about trans people, just...flexitime. I can only assume his workplace kept refusing to let him change from his 9-5 schedule and he had a total breakdown.
Both sound like they’d fit right in on here.
Show us a flexitime meme.
I'm a twit
I'm not 100% sure how many cousins I have... I have 14 aunts and uncles, and I reckon about 35 or 36 cousins. I speak to one of them on Facebook once a year. The rest are predominantly scum.
One of my cousins is a convicted nonce, another has over 300 convictions for being a general miscreant and once had to ring the police on himself mid burglary because he fell off a back yard wall and broke his leg.
Fucking hell.
My cousins are predominantly squares but harmless. I can get along with them cordially the few times a year I see them, although we have nothing in common.
The Loftys 😄
Our family is pretty small so I’m in touch with all of my eight cousins at least a few times a year. One of them I see at least monthly as we play the same sports and help out if either is missing a player for training. He’s also the godfather of my daughter.
I don't think Lofty knows anybody who wouldn't instantly be the most demented person I know.
I found out the other day I've two other cousins (maybe 3) that I didn't know about. I don't think I could think of them all to count them at this stage.
My cousins are all pretty sound. One even has an OBE. Imagine having a cousin with an OBE eh, Lofty?
Hasn't got any ASBO's though, has he? Fucking pussy.
Your cousin might have an OBE but I bet he never came into school and stole the Head of Year 9s whistle, fleeing when the police came. He was 25 at this point.
I booked a flight back to the UK a few weeks back on Etihad.
Yesterday they cancelled 2/3rds of the outbound flight - speaking to them today they offered me an alternative flight with a 10hr layover in Incheon ( ), when I asked for the same flight but the day earlier they said it wasn't available - even though it is still listed on their website. I then asked them to cancel it then, and they told me to wait "up to 45 days for a refund". This was all over DM Twitter (after being on hold for over an hour). I asked them to call me, and finally managed to get on the flight schedule, but a day earlier, no extra charge.
What a clusterfuck of an experience.
Had a similar experience with tap. Flight cancelled at 450am via text but luckily rebooked onto 3 flights going Munich, Paris, Lisbon. Tried to rebook but the website failed on every option and their helpline is built to automatically cut you off after 15 minutes.
In the end, I had to just basically go for the shit journey but who knows if they will cancel my way back or put me onto another magical European tour. I would mind less if the flights were cheap but then they are ridiculous and then you are bumped onto a non-direct route, you want to stab people.
It's bollocks. Faceless organisations who are almost impossible to talk to.
And waiting 45 days for a refund is just a piss take.
Maundy Thursday. It just sounds stupid when you say it out loud.
Brioche bun please and thank you.
Fucking aunt (grandmother of the fussy 9 year old and my dad's sister) just rang me to tell me she isn't going now. The set menu's too expensive apparently. You've had over a week to decide that and you tell me the day before after we've put our preorders in? I am fucking sick of these people.