Sometimes Ya Just Gotta Laugh

Sometimes Ya Just Gotta Laugh

My family is strange. We have bad luck, it's genetic. It's rare that we have good luck, just times when the bad luck isn't so bad. One would think this would make us surly, dark people. Instead, we're moronically (is that a word) funny.
My parents have always had a tumultuous relationship. I can remember loud fights from as early as the age of 3 or 4. I hated it.
As I got older, I realized how fucking stupid it was. Why stay married if you're that unhappy? Now, it's funny as hell to see how ridiculous they act. My dad is almost always the instigator, he's a real jerk sometimes.
One day they were shopping at Sam's Club and had a disagreement about God knows what. Dad opened a package of cookies to eat while driving home and they continued their argument. Mom must have really said something to piss Dad off because in a fit of anger, he picked up the package of cookies and hurled them out the truck window.
Mom laughed and said, "How is that supposed to hurt ME? They were YOUR cookies!"
He dropped my mom off at home, unloaded the groceries by throwing them in the yard and drove off in a huff with my mother yelling after him, "Don't bother coming back!"

I arrived at my parents' house a few minutes after this episode and found a couple of cans of food laying near the driveway. I asked my mom about it and she told me the story. I laughed til I was in tears.

And you thought YOUR family was disfunctional.

Posted by De at December 9, 2003 09:45 PM