My family is so awesome.

Apparently my grandfather on my dad's side died. Yesterday or the day before, I think, or who knows for sure. No one in my family has seen fit to call, or even email, to tell me. My mother-in-law follows my step-mom's Facebook profile, saw it there, and emailed The Husband so he could tell me; otherwise I would have no idea.

Some years ago when my great-grandmother died, no one told me that, either. There wasn't all this Facebook and crap back then, so I just didn't know for a long time.

What the fuck is wrong with my family? It's not as though I was Lifetime-Movie-of-the-Week close to my grandfather, and as he got older I hadn't seen him very often because he didn't often want to make the drive to family gatherings, but in an even slightly functional family, I would definitely warrant a phone call.

Times like these I find myself resenting my mom for leaving me with just this to call "family".

(Well, that's not true; I do still have my grandparents on my mom's side. However, my grandfather on that side has cancer and my grandmother always downplays everything and, I suspect, withholds certain information, so I never have a very good idea of how well — or not well — they are really doing.)

I wish that I had not been moved to the front desk; I'm really not in the mood right now for the cheerful doling out of "good morning" after "good morning" after "good morning". It's not a good morning. It's a Fuck The World morning.

Comments

[Annika]

:( I'm sorry.

You want me to drive down and punch your dad in the face? I can plead crazy pregnant lady and totally get away with it.

[Amy]

I hope that people stop coming in the building.

[CassyLee]

*heart* I'm so sorry Jamie. I would try to defend your family, since I have to admit that we were pretty bad about keeping family informed on Dad's status, but we did manage to tell the brothers before we posted on the internet about it...

[DropEdge]

I'm so sorry. My family is very much the same way, although they haven't done anything this extreme. Usually it's along the lines of having a family dinner and calling me in the middle of it to ask why I'm not there. "Oh, nobody called you? Hmm. Well, you really need to make an appearance because so-and-so's visiting from out of state..."