My father had 35 first cousins and grew up with them. As adults, they all scattered and I hardly ever saw any of them or their millions of children/grandchildren. My father loves to report on random events/milestones (Uncle Joe Gallagher had his 50th anniversary as a priest) and then uses it as a launching pad to EXPLAIN HOW WE ARE RELATED and some fond anicdote from his childhood. Repeatedly pointing out - these are your cousins, Livinitup!
Huh. Add this to the list of benefits resulting from my parents having literally zero friends.
My gramma does kind of the opposite. She'll tell me about the person, in great detail, first. And this will be about someone I've known my whole life. Yes, gramma, I do know your best friends of 60 years who treated me like family.
Nope...she only talks about my Dad & siblings. She doesn't seem to care/communicate with anyone else these days. She moved to a big city and away from all extended family 20yrs ago...so I'm sure that plays in.
YES, although it's almost always in reference to Facebook. "Oh, so-and-so (like someone she worked with 10 yrs ago's daughter) posted this status about her son, who's the same age as DS blah blah blah..."
IF I CARED ABOUT THESE PEOPLE I'D FRIEND THEM ON FUCKING FACEBOOK. GAH!
Literally, she does this five times every time I see her.
Huh. Add this to the list of benefits resulting from my parents having literally zero friends.
My gramma does kind of the opposite. She'll tell me about the person, in great detail, first. And this will be about someone I've known my whole life. Yes, gramma, I do know your best friends of 60 years who treated me like family.
My IL's do this constantly. "Jane, my brother Joe's wife..."
Oh, you mean Jane, my husband's godmother who did a reading at our wedding and whose home we go to every Thanksgiving? I guess she's vaguely familiar. JFC.
And my coworker thinks I know everyone in her family. So she'll come to me with "Sally and Bob came over this weekend and they recommend doing X about Y thing we discussed last week.
Who the fuck are Sally or Bob and why the hell would I care about their opinions?