I was pondering my own situation recently, and I was wondering if anyone has eccentric relatives. Has anyone seen the movie "The Castle"? Well the cousins on my mother's side of the family are just like that. They they have more cars than they know what to do with, a fixation with cars of all varieties, especially Jaguars, and have a habit of spending inordinate amounts of time browsing the "Trading Post" searching for useless second-hand items. That's just the tip of the iceberg as they say, and the other side of the family involves a number of people with only a shaky grasp of reality, sitting around muching enormous chunks of lamb from the obligatory roast, while a young cousin runs around the house screaming and brandishing a hammer. To top it all off, my aunt sits in a dark corner with a small over-fed dog on her lap muttering pearls of wisdom such as "I wish the boat had sunk while we were on it, then we'd never be stuck in this god-forsaken country..." Of course comments like that above are only available on a good day; they get far worse ('I hope you all choke on your dinner!') . That's just a small sample of my family, does anyone else have any interesting family-related anecdotes to share?

Edited by - esquilax on 11/28/2004 10:56:41 PM