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Back from vacation, LJ-luv.
We went to Florida. Flew there by plane. Stayed at a hotel near the water.
On the first day, some teenager in a beater hit us from behind when we were stopping for a yellow light. Luckily, it wasn't even a fender-bender. Just... scary. There was a jolt and this awful crush sound.
We have kin who lived in China for a time. They were in Florida, and that is why we went where we went.
The mother of the family is actually my aunt, my mother's sister from the Philippines. Like my mother, my aunt married military personnel who she met while working at a restaurant in the base. Incidentally, she and my mother are the most prosperous of all my mother's sibs.
My uncle-in-law worked as some kind of diplomat in China. He's had four kids with her. They seem to multiply.
The kids also have no discipline whatsoever. It is frustrating. They are all impossibly careless and offhandedly cruel. I can't count the number of times the oldest of them said "Let's kill something!".
My mother said it was because in China, they were cared for by the maids- the "aiees"- and now, in the States, my aunt and uncle don't know how to handle children. Obviously the aiees weren't much in the child-rearing department.
My uncle "disciplines" them in public by twisting their ears. It never works.
Can you tell I don't like my kin too much?
They give me headaches. I wish... eh, I don't know.
I don't like vacations very much. More later, perhaps.
We went to Florida. Flew there by plane. Stayed at a hotel near the water.
On the first day, some teenager in a beater hit us from behind when we were stopping for a yellow light. Luckily, it wasn't even a fender-bender. Just... scary. There was a jolt and this awful crush sound.
We have kin who lived in China for a time. They were in Florida, and that is why we went where we went.
The mother of the family is actually my aunt, my mother's sister from the Philippines. Like my mother, my aunt married military personnel who she met while working at a restaurant in the base. Incidentally, she and my mother are the most prosperous of all my mother's sibs.
My uncle-in-law worked as some kind of diplomat in China. He's had four kids with her. They seem to multiply.
The kids also have no discipline whatsoever. It is frustrating. They are all impossibly careless and offhandedly cruel. I can't count the number of times the oldest of them said "Let's kill something!".
My mother said it was because in China, they were cared for by the maids- the "aiees"- and now, in the States, my aunt and uncle don't know how to handle children. Obviously the aiees weren't much in the child-rearing department.
My uncle "disciplines" them in public by twisting their ears. It never works.
Can you tell I don't like my kin too much?
They give me headaches. I wish... eh, I don't know.
I don't like vacations very much. More later, perhaps.
