Bouvre Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 I'm on my way to mine now, and so I'm curious (even if you don't have family reunions, or go to them), what could we expect from your family reunion? Mine is always a weekend of camping, a lot of drinking, a potluck on the final night, and playing music together/singing a lot of classic country songs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cau Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 I've only been to one(my dad's side) and it was a basically they rented this huge shelter for a day at a park and it was a big potluck. But there's only so much they could do. I have over 23 first cousins of all ages on that side so with second and third and parents and wives and kids and all that there was probably 200-300 people there. I was also like 8 so I don't really remember too much except wanting to leave basically the whole time. On my mom's side every holiday is pretty much a family reunion but there's 20ish people at most so that's a lot more chill with the younger kids doing whatever somewhere in the house and everybody else drinking and chatting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 I wouldn't go to one. Most everyone from my family that I liked are dead. The few I do care about I have atleast semi-regular contact with. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunStarHero Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 My mom's side has only ever had like two reunions. They were picnics at a park. Nothing fancy. Dad's side was...morbid. Most members of that family are older and we would have frequent reunions, albeit only in the event one of us had passed away. There were very few of us under the age of 40 at the last one I attended in 2009. Weeee~~~! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
André Toulon Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 I honestly haven't been to one that was for either side of my family in years....My mom always just latches on to her brother's wife's family reunions and I don't exactly care for them...I don't dislike them...Just don't care. My sister used to fly me out to Cali for the Famrees on my dad's side, but since all the older members are dead, none of the kids give enough of a shit to get together anymore. The kid's mom's family still has them and I have to go because of the kids, but I don't have to participate or do too much schmoozing other than with the few people I fucks with. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggstop Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 i dont know i never go. ME around a bunch of people i dont know and cant relate to if i do go. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greeny Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 A lot of third arms and down syndrome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naraku4656 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 we don't have any, thankfully 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggstop Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 17 minutes ago, Greeny said: A lot of third arms and down syndrome. pointy heads and too close together eyes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 I never had one. I didn’t even know they were a common thing. Growing up, the only people I knew that had them, had Southern relatives. I was today years old when I learned it wasn’t just a southern thing 😬 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostrek Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 all of us deal with one over religious aunt micromanaging ever thing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonSinger Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Mom's maternal side: When I'm in Indiana, everyone wears family t-shirts and goes to the park. We disperse for the night, then get frantic calls about a missing older family member who turns up the next morning clinging to a log after having fallen into the river drunk off his ass. Dude escaped worse during other drunken escapades, so we all just laughed about it and shared newspaper clippings. When I'm not in Indiana, they go to Disney World. Mom's paternal side: Damn good cooking, jello shots, regular shots, fun music, cutie pie kids running around, and HILARIOUS family stories. Dad's side: Traveling to different tourist attractions around the country and rare trips like to Israel for a religious voyage(so not my thing and glad I missed it). I've only done stuff with my mom's side...for reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyaos Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 It's impossible to have a true family reunion because certain family members can't fucking stay out of jail or prison for more than a month. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobdog Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 We've never had any kind of a family reunion. None of us seems to care all that much about relatives outside of the immediate vicinity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamped Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Snide remarks, petty comments about life choices, old people complaining about being old and having to cook, flash backs and unwanted revelations about how all the old respectable people were hoes back in the day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That_One_Guy Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 I'm from Bama so it's basically like an episode of Duck Dynasty mixed with an AA meeting 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nameraka Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 depends on which one. my dad's is basically in the everglades... in summer. his family are basically right wing fundamentalist christian rednecks. so it sucks. i've never been to my mom's which is in the mountains of north carolina. i am thinking of going to my great-grandmother's reunion. (father's, father's, mother) i recently found out it's held about five miles from my house. her maiden name is extremely common in this area, and i'm constantly running in to people who are distant cousins. which is weird, because i'm not from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunStarHero Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 2 hours ago, That_One_Guy said: I'm from Bama so it's basically like an episode of Duck Dynasty mixed with an AA meeting I feel you. Just wish these swampbilly motherfuckers in my family could cook. It's a disgrace. Wonderbread-ass hicks that haven't seemed to piece together that McDonald is not the only provider of sustenance available. And I sure as shit ain't teaching them how to cook. At most, I'll teach my niece and nephew. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrigunBebop Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 My family stopped doing reunions when I was a baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 I've never been to one. As a kid, my mom's side of the family was always pretty close knit, at least as far as my grandparents and their 5 children go, and we would all be together for every Thanksgiving and Christmas. On my dad's side, I've only really spent a whole lot of time with my grandparents. But they're both dead now. I can only imagine a family reunion on my dad's side would include a lot of political debate between my uncle and my dad (my dad is very left-wing for someone his age, and pretty outspoken about it; my uncle is a typical hardcore alt-right Trumpler, and pretty outspoken about it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That_One_Guy Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 2 hours ago, GunStarHero said: I feel you. Just wish these swampbilly motherfuckers in my family could cook. It's a disgrace. Wonderbread-ass hicks that haven't seemed to piece together that McDonald is not the only provider of sustenance available. And I sure as shit ain't teaching them how to cook. At most, I'll teach my niece and nephew. i always hear the n word at least once followed by " I use it different" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juice McKenzie Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 Aside from my parents, brother, aunt and cousin, that's it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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