Horrors of the Holiday

[azurelunatic]

votania may or may not actually get Thanksgiving off, being as that's one of the top travel days, so therefore a very busy work holiday.

Her mother, "Grandma", holds that holiday as one of the most sacred: the holiday for getting family together and doing stuff, and the only excuses for missing it are being dead, out of the area, or working and unable to get away.

votania will possibly be working. marxdarx and Little Fayoumis and I will not be.

I could see Grandma figuring that, well, Mommy is working, but Little Fayoumis of course needs and wants to spend the holiday with Family, as that's what the holiday is for... He's seven, after all, and seven is well enough time to begin learning the responsibilities of the family, and celebrating with the family thing... leaving us yanked along with, as we're not about to let him endure one of those things without some representatives of sanity, and without a vehicular means of easy escape. There's no bus service in Mesa on holidays...

*shudder*

Oooooh, let's hope Grandma does not think of that...

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[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

Anyone who might treat her grandchild significantly differently based on whether or not there is transportation out of her vicinity available needs to be hit over the head with a duck.

[azurelunatic]

No, she'll be a potential bitch all the same. We can just leave if it gets too bad otherwise.

I won't go there without an escape route.

[azurelunatic]

And the fact is, she's psycho. She doesn't grok the difference between an appropriate response and a fucking psycho one.

I know how to handle her. I just don't take shit from her, because I'm protecting those I love. And she behaves around me.

I don't trust That Woman. I don't want LF unsupervised around them.


When it's Grandma and Grandpa taking LF for the weekend to spoil him, that's one thing. A family holiday is entirely another one.