Guns Can Be Useful
Last night I over-heard my brother (the uncle of the boy) giving my nephew a general lecture. Not only that, but my brother doesnt know how to hold back or summarize. A five minute conversation in his mind is actually 5 hours in real time, and for him thats the norm. So you could imagine what kind of hell my nephew was going through. Seeing no signs that this would end, I decide to rescue the kid. I politley intervene and decide to make my brother aware that sometimes less is more.I explained that the boy, just like everyone else, respects him and therefor doesnt interrupt or say whats on his mind. However he shouldnt take that respect for granted. Also my brother tends to view my nephew's father, our other brother who was never there for his children, as a low-life. And with this perception, he dared to compare my nephew to him! Personally, I knew he had crossed the line and I'd be damned if I allowed him to get away with that. So I told him about his self and he then gets pissed off and starts arguing me, making a remark about me being a female needing to learn my place and jesturing as if he could put me there by threatening my life. Of course, I found this statement to be pathetically incongruous, so I essentially told him that only an insecure man would feel threatened by a strong female and that I wouldnt give him the satisfation of supposing I were his rival. Truth be told, he is in no condition worthy of being my nemesis. We engaged in quarrel for some time and when it was finally over, he comes back and shows both my nephew and I a sheet of notebook paper with my name on his "Shit List"...Sama Bin Laden and Saddam Housein taking second and third place. *sigh* Just another day in the life...