🤯 INCRÍVEL: “The Worst 45 Seconds Of My Life”: 23 Family Functions Gone Terribly Wrong 😲
Article created by: Indrė Lukošiūtė
Ah, family. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em! I look forward to seeing my relatives all year long, but when I finally do, I am reminded to be careful to avoid certain hot topics and be on my best behavior. We have a wonderful time catching up, playing games and sharing funny stories. But one controversial comment can make the rest of the day extremely uncomfortable.
Regardless of how deeply you love your relatives, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a family function quickly go south. Redditors have recently been sharing stories of the most inappropriate and uncomfortable moments that they’ve witnessed at family gatherings, so we’ve gathered the most painful stories below. We sincerely hope that these tales don’t remind you of your own relatives, but if they do, you can rest assured knowing that you’re not alone. And keep reading to find a conversation with Modern Therapy‘s clinician, Adnan Kastrat, LAC!
My dad brought threw an impromptu birthday party for himself while my mom was overseas (his birthday not until the following month) so he could introduce his affair partner to his family behind my mom’s back. The thing about the AP was she had “disappeared” in order to avoid a subpoena. My dad had told investigators when they were looking for her that he had no idea where she was and then brought her to this function two days later.
My dad thought his family would welcome the AP which would force my mom to accept her as a part of our family. Apparently he wanted a whole sister wife scenario.
For some reason, he didn’t think my uncle – a working police detective – would rat him and his affair partner out to law enforcement lol.
The spaghetti was good, though. .
My Grandma faked a heart attack at my 7th birthday party. She claimed she had like a year or less to live and had been faking that she had cancer.
Parents take her to the hospital, all the tests they do for a heart attack come back fine. My Mom orders some other tests as well to see what’s really up.
Turned out she was completely fine and wasn’t going to die, she just made it up to try and get money from my parents. Haven’t seen her since then either.
This didn’t happen to me, but I watched it happen and it was awful. My cousin was pregnant from a guy who she had only been dating for a few months, but he was a good guy. On Christmas Eve she invited him to our family gathering and when we were exchanging presents he grabbed a small box from the tree and was 2 seconds from getting down on one knee when *that uncle* jokingly says, “god I hope you’re not proposing!” Everyone laughs and this poor guy is in a half bent knee/half standing pose and just looks up at *that uncle* and slowly powers through it and slowly gets down on one knee and proceeds to ask her if she’ll marry him. She said yes and they’re engaged but it was one of the worst 45 seconds of my life.
My alcoholic uncle got so drunk at his own daughter’s wedding that he [peed] on the wedding cake in front of half the wedding party.
“He quit drinking after that.
My grandmother tried to shoot herself in the front yard because my mother wouldn’t let me and my siblings (6, 4 and 2) ride sitting on the back hood of my uncle’s classic convertible during their neighborhood Fourth of July parade. She was angry that no one would be able to see our outfits if we were seated inside the car and while trying to shoot herself accidentally grazed my grandpa in the process. Good times.
I remember when my brothers and cousins spent two summers building a viking ship and they took it out on a fjord when we had a family reunion function. Only my brothers and cousins went out on it and after being chased by the coast guard the ship eventually began leaking and it sank leaving them to be rescued by the coast guard. Luckily they only got slapped with a warning do not build another ship again.
Grandma’s funeral: my uncle, my grandma’s disowned son, came to her viewing in jeans, polo shirt, and his weird wife & and her “service” dog. My grandpa was so mad that he kicked my uncle out. My uncle then went to my grandparents’ house and cleaned it out. It took a couple weeks to figure that out because my grandpa was in a nursing home at that point. My deadbeat uncle, who walked our on his five kids to marry a psychopath, literally stole from my grandpa during my grandma’s funeral.
Was at my now wife’s father’s wedding reception. They eloped and had a fancy dinner with the family. My wife’s uncle tried to toast the couple several times but no one heard him. My father in law quiets his family and says, “Uncle John is trying to say something.”
Uncle John says “to father in law and *his ex wife’s name*. Many happy returns.”
This poor man had nailed it the few times he tried before and boofed it when it counted.
Thanksgiving dinner going around the table sharing what we are thankful for. My brother gives thanks for his wife not kicking him out when she recently found out he had been having an affair. It was humiliating for her and embarrassing for the rest of us. For God’s sake, there were children at the table. We never went around for thanks at the dinner table again. The children are all adults now, and yes they do remember vividly. What the hell was he thinking?
Not my story but my cousins- her aunt was always a little off. You know the type. The family was pretty low contact with her because of this but not no contact. The aunt has a daughter (let’s say “Tara”) that the entire family loves and looks out for. She’s not “off” like her mom but being raised by such a person she turns out very free spirited. When she reaches adulthood she is off to explore the world. At some point the aunt informs the family Tara has been in a terrible accident overseas, and a few days later confirms Tara has passed. The family mourns but is told by Tara’s mom that she had her cremated and the ashes buried wherever she was and doesn’t want to do any funeral. A few months go by and Tara’s grandfather dies. Of course there will be a big family funeral for him. Tara’s mom begins calling her family members to tell them that Tara had a very close friend that would like to attend the funeral. The thing is, she says, Tara’s friend looks A LOT like Tara but would be very upset if you brought it up to her or talked to her at all. Believe it or not but wild stories were such a part of their relationship to this woman that I don’t think any one really thought about it. That is until (you guessed it) Tara, thought to be deceased by her entire extended family, walked into her actually deceased grandfather’s funeral.
I was invited to a neighbors birthday party, with the extended family there. I was tired, I stayed in the house. A father and 19 yr old son were sitting at the kitchen table with others, drinking alcohol. As a joke, the son pointed a handgun at his father, and pulled the trigger. The gun was loaded, the father died, shot on the face.
Kid drowned at my mother’s birthday party. EMTs shocked him back to life. The whole thing lasted maybe 10 min. It was surreal. .
When I was a kid, my great-grandmother was quite the hoarder. Poor, deaf, only about five feet tall and frail. Never had less than half a dozen cats, no litter box, just the entire back end of the house covered in newspaper. Just trash and filth everywhere. She had a chihuahua she’d trained to act “cripple”, and another dog she’d affectionately named the N word.
We visited about once a week for dinner. On one visit, she tells asks my dad to check on “the” cat. It hadn’t left its spot on the floor all day. Dad checks on the cat, and reports: “No wonder if hasn’t moved. It’s dead.”
Dinner’s ready! Who’s hungry?
My father-in-law attended his first Passover dinner (Jewish holiday). He polished off a bottle of Jack and started speaking in fake Hebrew to my deeply religious Jewish family members. Nobody thought it was funny. He hasn’t been invited over since.
At the end of my aunt’s open casket funeral service I knocked down a floral spray and it dominoed the rest of the flowers around the casket and she was covered in floral.
During Christmas with the family we discovered the hard way that my little sister, who was 3 years old, was prone to febrile seizures. Everyone was freaking out while my little sister was blue and foaming at the mouth.
Easter dinner at my ex’s very religious aunts household. Decided it was a good time to announce my pregnancy. Not one congratulation, just a bunch of “ohs” and silence. Not even afterwards did someone come up and say congrats.
Looking back I get it now. Dude was never ready to be a dad and his entire family knew it. It was so embarrassing at the time though.
Probably the 20 person drunken fistfight that only partially stopped when my grandpa had a heart attack.
There was also the 20 person drunken fistfight at halloween…. the one at 4th of july…. the one at thanksgiving, but at least those had no heart attacks.
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