I know this seems anal but I need to get it off my chest. I’m a graduate student here and have found it difficult to make close friends with the exception of a select few whose kindness and generocity have overwhelmed me. So I’ve been bugging my friends and family to come and visit since January to give me something to do to pass the time and they have finally all decided to show up including my mom who needed to bring my aunt because she is that afraid of flying.
My Aunt has never particularly liked me but had recently been making an effort to be nice which gave me hope for the visit. WRONG. While my mom came to see me AND Halifax (she doesn’t get out much) my aunt is clearly here as a tourist. She spent the first three days of her visit here complaining about various things including the hotel room I booked for them, the weather, the people etc. and has basically become a Touristzilla who has gone so far to openly yell at people who aren’t meeting her “high” level of moral behaviour. This has included screaming after some poor girl on a bike who practically feel over trying not to hit her when she stepped in her path. In addition, my Aunt came with a list of things she wanted to do here which was based on the advice of near-strangers and completely disregarded any of my suggestions of what to do and where to go despite the fact I’ve lived here for a year and have made an effort to get to know the city. On top of everything else at the end of yesterday evening she started making derogatory statements about a certain group of people which EVERYONE who knows me knows I don’t put up with. Of course all of this is leading to tensions with my mother and the whole visit is turning out to be more exhausting than anything.
In any case, I’d like to personally apologize to any of the people who’ve endured my Aunt’s wrath including the staff at the Westin, the boy who didn’t hold the door at Suggah on Friday and especially the poor girl on the bicycle at the harbour last night.
As for me I’ll spend the next two days trying to avoid her wrath. God help anyone who gets in her way.
—Pissy Graduate Student
This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2009.
You don’t need to apologize on her behalf; she’s an evil bitch.
Ugh, that’s awful. Try not to internalize it too much, if that’s possible, you don’t need the sadness.
your aunt sounds like an awful bitch from satans anal womb
What tourist attraction is she visiting today and what will she be wearing? I would go out of my way to run into her.
No need to apologize for her actions
buy her a male hooker,she needs a good screw
oh my!!
what a sin! you dont need people like that around you! may be better to not have the fam come visit!
At least she’s not sleeping on your couch. Tell your mom to ditch the bitch and spend some QT with you and only you. Let Aunt Cunt run amok on her own. Halifax can deal with a bitch or two, right Kay?
Miles, didn’t your mom ever tell you not to poke the bear?
I’d say don’t poke the muffin, but most of our mothers want us (in some abstract way and oh my god I hope they don’t actually think about it explicitly and you know picture it and everything oh jesus now I can never have sex again because i am afraid she’ll be picturing it oh shit) to do *that* to make grandbabies if nothing else.
LOL Jammie…”poke the muffin”. Now I’ll be thinking about that next time my mom asks me about grandbabies.
And Kay, I only meant to imply that you can deal with a bitch or two…not that you are a bitch….sorry if my wording was intentionally ambiguous.
tell your aunt off on the last day. your mother is your mother and is not involved in your conflict with the cranky aunt. and a mother should know better to either step aside or maybe settle the issues between you two.
i’m a stand-off type of person when i’m greeted with things i disagree greatly with or if i’m being treated like shit. an aunt would not deter me from making the occasional assertive statement.
halifaxmentor is likely right. Bitch probably hasn’t had a good deep dickin’ in years. Decades, maybe.
In any event, let her do her bitchy tourist thing…ignore her and spend time with your mom! When I lived out of province the best times I had was when my mom would visit me 🙂
And, perhaps an assertive comment as to your aunt’s behaviour TO your aunt might help. You could even write her a letter after she leaves and tell her she’s not welcome back as your guest because of her appalling behaviour. She’ll probably bitch to high heavens about that to anyone and everyone, and even show people the letter, and as long as it’s not written in a snotty tone, but a respectful matter-of-fact voice then she likely won’t get much sympathy.
Your aunt’s a cunt. The shitty thing about this though is how she’s going to go back to (wherever the hell she came from) and tell everyone there what a shithole Halifax is… wait a minute… is your aunt kay?
Sadly no, nm.. Auntie Kay lives in HRM.
It’ll all be over soon and one day you’ll laugh about what a stupid bitch she is. I always say friends are the creator’s apology for relatives.