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Peregrine Took

(7,510 posts) Mon Dec 30, 2013, 08:33 PM Dec 2013

Anyone else feel so awkward at (family) get togethers that you just blurt something out?

I usually just sit quietly for a long time but (esp after a few drinks) I just say something and everyone looks at me like I'm insane.

Nothing offensive but I think, sometimes, its not the right time to say that particular thing...but it can definitely gets the conversation rolling if into uncharted territory.

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Anyone else feel so awkward at (family) get togethers that you just blurt something out? (Original Post) Peregrine Took Dec 2013 OP

Naw, they already knew I was insane. Warpy Dec 2013 #1

I do that all too often, even find myself a thread killer on forums. Sorry. Hoyt Dec 2013 #2

Sigh...I don't know why I bother to write on these forums. Peregrine Took Dec 2013 #3

I seem to be suspended in goo when applegrove Dec 2013 #4

Yep. My son is always telling me that I say things that make my daughter's boyfriend uncomfortable. Still Blue in PDX Jan 2014 #5

If a conversation has bored you into brain freeze, you're not entirely responsible for what IrishAyes Jan 2014 #6

Warpy

(113,131 posts)

1. Naw, they already knew I was insane.

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Mon Dec 30, 2013, 08:42 PM

Dec 2013

Anything that came out of my mouth just confirmed it.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

2. I do that all too often, even find myself a thread killer on forums. Sorry.

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Mon Dec 30, 2013, 10:03 PM

Dec 2013

Peregrine Took

(7,510 posts)

3. Sigh...I don't know why I bother to write on these forums.

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 30, 2013, 10:58 PM

Dec 2013

No more!

applegrove

(123,295 posts)

4. I seem to be suspended in goo when

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 12:46 AM

Dec 2013

it comes to expressing myself these days. A combination of no alcohol and meds for ptsd I think. I used to be more outgoing in small gatherings of people I know well. Now not so much.

Still Blue in PDX

(1,999 posts)

5. Yep. My son is always telling me that I say things that make my daughter's boyfriend uncomfortable.

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Thu Jan 2, 2014, 04:09 PM

Jan 2014

Sometimes I feel bad about it and sometimes I just think, "Too bad."

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)

6. If a conversation has bored you into brain freeze, you're not entirely responsible for what

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2014, 04:33 PM

Jan 2014

pops out of your mouth unbidden. Are you??? Frankly, there's only so much medical history and minutia of the lives of people I don't know and will never meet, that I can take. Maybe it beats political rants, though, so I should be grateful. Or pecking other people to pieces - especially moi. My family's gone now, but when they were alive I adored some and tried to stay as far away from the others as possible. One good thing about fractious Irish clans, however - usually like hangs with like, because it seems a lot of us feel the same way. What I loved was people who knew family history back to Ireland and could carry on at fascinating length about all the feuds and such. I also found that the less I said, the more I'd hear.

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