This. Is. Amazing.
Says our submitter: “I don’t think this lady will be invited back to her stepson’s house anytime soon.”
related: Day in the Life of a Crank
This. Is. Amazing.
Says our submitter: “I don’t think this lady will be invited back to her stepson’s house anytime soon.”
related: Day in the Life of a Crank
FILED UNDER: holiday spirit · old folks
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56 responses so far ↓
#1
Rahvin
She does sound like my mother though. Sheesh…
Jan 6, 2015 at 7:46 pm rating: 90
#2
eirinnkelly
I know it says “blessed Christmas” but this lady is obviously a fan of Festivus.
Jan 6, 2015 at 8:18 pm rating: 90
#3
Roto13
Best part is “We did have a nice time.” Did you? Did you really?
Jan 6, 2015 at 8:28 pm rating: 90
#4
FeRD
Wow. She doesn’t so much have a “comfort zone” as a “reinforced-steel comfort bunker with pirhana-filled moat and laser-targeted defensive turrets”. When was the last time she ventured outside of it, high school?!?
Jan 6, 2015 at 8:46 pm rating: 90
#5
The Elf
I hate to break it to you, but no one enjoys flying, especially in coach. It’s just a means to an end.
I love visiting new places, but I don’t like traveling to new places. Whether loaded in a car all day (or multiple days) or crammed into an airline seat, I just want to get to where I’m going. So if it’s more than about 6 hours drive away, I’ll fly (if that’s a realistic option) just to get it over with.
Jan 7, 2015 at 7:38 am rating: 90
#6
The Elf
Part of me really hopes that stepson received the annual Christmas missive. He should know what everyone else on the Christmas card list knows.
Jan 7, 2015 at 7:46 am rating: 90
#7
kambc
Not everyone can take the heat, and must been first airplane trip. If you are used to climate control, you are going to complain when it’s miserable. She needed a battery operated personal fan. Some areas are boring! And some people entertain by turning on the TV. But it was weird she wrote about it.
Jan 7, 2015 at 8:04 am rating: 90
#8
kaetra
Lets validate the theory that the older you get, the more you complain. Are we all destined to become Cranks? And if so, what can we do to help prevent it?
I finally saved up enough to go on my “Dream Vacation” to the Caribbean. It wasn’t until I got there that I realized I don’t like sand, extreme heat/humidity and the sticky feel the seawater left on me. If that makes me a Crank I guess I am one.
Jan 7, 2015 at 8:21 am rating: 90
#9
sunshynegrll
tl;dr version – “I will never be satisfied with anything, and will make sure everyone knows it.”
Jan 7, 2015 at 8:24 am rating: 90
#10
Robin
I bet she’s a lot of fun at parties.
Jan 7, 2015 at 8:37 am rating: 90
#11
danezeller
Hmmm. How did you all come to the conclusion that she was a “she”? Maybe the submitter didn’t know who the letter writer was, and made the same assumption you did. Maybe “she” was the brother of the man whose son and family lived in Arizona. Oh wait, the last sentence: “We did have a nice time…” Contradictory, she was.
Jan 7, 2015 at 10:31 am rating: 90
#12
rushgirl2112
Dear people who use handwriting fonts,
You aren’t fooling anyone, and it only makes you look like a dolt.
Jan 7, 2015 at 12:02 pm rating: 90
#13
havingfitz
Let’s be honest: we’re ALL related to this woman.
Jan 7, 2015 at 1:19 pm rating: 90
#14
Lita
Haaaaaaaahahaha. Haha. Ha.
This reminds me very much of something my aunt would do. I love her dearly, really, but…
(Off-topic note here: currently having very strange eye issue that’s either a leaking blood vessel or some fluid pushing my retina away from where it ought to be. Hopefully, I’ll be able to find out what it is on the 14th and maybe even get it fixed. Good thoughts, please?)
Jan 7, 2015 at 4:50 pm rating: 90
#15
Roxy Random
I’m related to several people like this, but fortunately only by marriage. Let’s face it, if they didn’t have anything to complain about, they’d complain about not having anything to complain about.
Jan 8, 2015 at 12:28 pm rating: 90
#16
Kittymama
Y’all have made me remember the letter my brother-in-law’s ex-wife wrote, referring to him as their children’s “biological” father. (He’s been in their lives all along.)
Jan 8, 2015 at 9:39 pm rating: 90
#17
Myrric
That lady was just DUMB. Arizona requires AC in all hotels and apartments, so if she was outside of those two kinds of places, then her real problem was that the stepson was able live there without the AC blasting on 50 degrees.
As far as the Christmas letters go, I don’t mind the single page one my mom sends out every year. She’s great at keeping me up to date on my sibs’ grades and such, but she’s rather bad about telling me the big things, so the Christmas letter is the only way I learn that my sister was in the national soccer finals (for example).
Jan 10, 2015 at 6:53 pm rating: 90
#18
Morgraine
A few years ago, while going through some things, I found a Christmas letter my (now) ex-mother in law had sent before I had met my now ex-husband. It described, in detail, the cyst his older brother had on his butt that ruptured. This older brother was NOT a child, but in his mid-twenties. I would have been so livid. I do not know what makes people want to tell such things in their Christmas letters. I wish I had kept it and doctored it so I could send it in, it was pretty epic, though I felt soo sooo soo bad for my ex-brother-in-law. And understood why he married and moved far far away.
Jan 12, 2015 at 12:56 pm rating: 90
#19
Rafaello
Never Give Up
Jan 13, 2015 at 5:21 am rating: 90
#20
juniper
I want to see all the letter!
I suppose that’s one good thing about Facebook – it has made these round robin type letters pretty redundant. I hardly get any now…
Jan 16, 2015 at 7:38 pm rating: 90
#21
Beth
lol she must have been near Tucson. Tempe is wayyy better, however by the sound of it, she will never know. #UofASucks. #Forkemdevils
Apr 4, 2015 at 2:38 pm rating: 90
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