Hilton Head Hell

Looks nice, doesn't it? but.........


Hello,

Well, I have just spent the past three days in Hilton Head with my maternal grandmother, which was, let's say, a trying experience. She is not a very easy person to spend three days with and normally I manage to avoid her scrutiny, as it is normally deflected to one of the other cousins who is a bigger screw-up at the time than I am. Let's see, some of the things that this crazy woman has done in the past just to give you an inkling of what I am talking about.

- She told my oldest cousin that if he didn't get married before he was 30 she was going to cut him out of her will (which would be a substantial amount of money).
- She did cut my cousin out of the will who had a child out of wedlock.
- She told my uncle that his two children were not truly apart of the family because they are adopted (well, she later disinherited one, so...)
- She told my cousin who has battled anorexia in the past that she was overweight (she's not at all, she used to be a model before she got married).
- She didn't want my Mom to marry my Dad because he was poor.
- She told my cousin that she wouldn't come to his wedding if my dh was invited (so he wasn't invited because she always gets her way, and the rest of the family are closet xenophobes anyways).

So this time, I got to hear in the course of about 2 days that I was overweight a good 20-3o times. ("My, don't you have a healthy appetite","you may be able to fit into my clothes if you lost a dew pounds"). She is always saying that if I lost a few pounds I could wear her clothes (she is very fashionable actually and I like most of her clothes), but come on! she weighs 102 lbs and is 5'2. I am almost 5'7 and weigh 150! There is no way I will EVER fit into her clothes, urgh.

Other fun topics, how I should get rid of dh (she says this very subtly, asking questions about his immigration status and telling me that I don't need to be tied down too young). Also we watched Fox News and Bill O'Reilly and she lauded his political genius, which I just sat there and took, rather than open that can of worms. Other choice comments, "I don't understand why all those Muslims want to kill each other." "Well, as long as they are killing each other over there in Iraq and don't try to come over here and kill us again, I don't care." "It's their religion that makes those Muslims so violent." Obviously she doesn't know that I'm Muslim, I'm pretty sure that she would disinherit me too, which I don't care about but which would effectively disinherit my parents too.

Ok, sorry for the long post and I'm going to shut up now, but I really needed to vent. Thanks for listening.