Comments | dalthor: Wasting time with the wife's relatives.

dalthor

Wasting time with the wife's relatives.

Mar 08, 2009 08:56

Name Days, or the celebration of your Saint's Name Day if you will. You don't go visiting people here for their birthdays, you go on their Name Day instead. This leads to spending countless hours annually with people that you'd a.) just rather not see or b.) don't want to spend time with then, as you'd rather be doing other things. Last night we ( Read more... )

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peadarog March 8 2009, 08:57:42 UTC

But there must be lots of free food at these things, right?

dalthor March 8 2009, 09:13:08 UTC

It's a process steeped in ritual. A chocolate followed by water, your drink of choice and then a dessert. There's rarely dinner involved and we skip out on that as often as is socially acceptable.

peadarog March 8 2009, 09:16:35 UTC

Hmmm... by a not very astonishing coincidence, I am to be socially visited by my family today and, for the first time in my life, I have made a moussaka for them. I've made a mess of it, though, so it should keep my relatives away for another while :-)

mashiara13 March 8 2009, 10:50:26 UTC

You made moussaka? I'm impressed. I haven't gotten around to making one yet, something about not liking eggplants. ;)

I wish providing my relatives with bad food/service would be enough to keep them away, but no, they'd just bitch about the visit more afterwards. It's a lose-lose situation.

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xraytheenforcer March 8 2009, 14:30:17 UTC

Oh man, I would go insane if I had to endure that each year. If pushed, I lash out with both guns blazing (as happened a couple of years ago when the now-BIL annoyed the fucking shit out of me while I was cooking soup. I forget what, exactly, I said, but he's steered clear of me ever since.)

peadarog March 8 2009, 14:56:07 UTC

You really should have written that down for future use...

dalthor March 8 2009, 15:57:17 UTC

I lash out with both guns blazing

It's totally maddening but I knew it going in. STILL I decided to marry her. :love:

mashiara13 March 8 2009, 16:01:41 UTC

He is a lying liar who lies. He had NO idea it was going to be that bad!

beniowa79 March 9 2009, 01:39:23 UTC

I confess that the idea of a Name Day scares me. An extra holiday providing the excuse for relatives to hound you, ye gads!

terraprime March 10 2009, 01:41:02 UTC

This tradition sounds delightfully (when I don't have to endure it) perverse. Kudos to the Greek.

Or in Simpson's terms:

*points*

Ha-haaa!