People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
My parents do this all the time. "Yeah, we just came back from the funeral, it was beautiful." So apparently my aunt died. "Oh yeah, we thought it wouldn't interest you".
At the same time, they call me to tell me "So, Henry had to go to the hospital, he's in a bad state. We though you'd want to know." So apparently someone from their neighborhood who I never met or heard of has some bad health.
Oh, everything's fine now, ...
I wish. Nope, nothing like my family.
... but two weeks ago she was murdered.
Nevermind, this checks out.
Mom didn't tell me she got married and was pregnant while I was in college. I talked to her almost daily then...
Here's my sister giving me some serious news about a family member.
Yes
I'm dead. How is anyone this bad at delivering crucial information?
Maybe she was the one having a stroke lol
They both had a stroke.
Kill the other Paul. There! No more confusion
I can feel the frustration through the image. Hope Paul's doing ok, once you figure out which one.
He's doing better now, thanks!
But my dear sister is still the same, unfortunately.
I am experiencing the same frustration while you reply but still haven’t told us which Paul
It’s obvious from this exchange:
WHICH PAUL U FUCK
Mom’s brother?????
Or Jeanie’s husband?????
Yes
The sister (grey) was clearly responding to “Mom’s brother?????”, but just as she hit “send”, teal asked “Or Jeanie’s husband?????”.
People who give both options in an obvious one-or-the-other question deserve to receive “Yes” as a response.
Also, what is “Jsuk”?
Yes.
Omg, thank you for sharing.
I hope my pain brought people joy.
Yea I found out from my server at a restaurant that my cousin killed himself. She was his friend. It had been months since it happened and no one told me that he passed, even though I saw my family recently. Fucked up.
People get really weird about suicide. Almost like they think talking about it will incentivize others to kill themselves.
Apparently it actually can, which is why news reports are careful about it and it shouldn't happen in TV soaps or fictional dramas often
there is a phenomenon known as “suicide contagion” or “copycat suicide,” where exposure to suicide can lead to an increase in suicide rates.
Typically this occurs with media, like when a celebrity is in the news for suicide, but I believe there is still a relationship in just talking about it, especially in younger folks.
I'm not saying there's nothing to that but it seems to me that if the mere mention of suicide in just about any context is enough to send you over the edge then you were pretty close to falling off already. I find it difficult to attribute much to something like that.
My dad
"Well your grandmother is out of the hospital"
She was in the hospital???
“Son I’m going in for cancer surgery tomorrow. Everything will be fine… take care of your father, you know he’s basically useless on his own.”
Literally 2 days ago. Don’t worry, she’s fine.
Mom did this to me also. On the same day of her radical mastectomy. I had no idea she had breast cancer.
The surgery went ok at least.
It's because they post everything on Facebook and I don't go on Facebook.
My dad on 2 separate and unrelated occasions.
Him. Almost recovered from my surgery
Me. Wtf what surgery.
Him. I put it on Facebook
I found out my mother had HEART SURGERY two weeks ago when my sister sent a weird "she's out of the operating room and I recovery" message, I thought she meant her mother in law and was informing my parents on the family group text, since my parents know her a lot better than I do.
Nope. It was my own mother, and nobody told me about a surgery they all knew about 6 months in advance.
Jesus, I'd be so upset, but I guess also relieved. Why is this so common?!
My Mother recently went on a trip. During fathers day I'm talking to my Grandma and she asks if I was told that my mom fell on the escalator and hurt her hip. Not bad, just sore. I say no and my grandma seems really surprised that I was not told this. Later that same day I'm talking to my mom and she asks if anyone told me that my grandma broke a rib last week. No, grandma never mentioned this! Apparently I can only get my family's health updates second hand.
Your fifth cousin twice removed just phoned up and said she was in a nasty car accident a couple of days ago -- I just thought you should know.
I was studying abroad so I came home after a year found out my father had a stroke and no one told me.
My sister causally told me couple weeks back that my uncle died 6 months ago.
"The family has COVID"
"Oh, okay"
2 days later
Sister sends me a screenshot of a Facebook post in which my mother's in the hospital
Because if there's anywhere you should share your private medical issues, it's on a for-profit website that tracks and sells literally everything you do online, and won't even show it to the people who you wanted to share it with.
Facebook Nowadays: "Oh, you want to see what your friends are up to? Too fucking bad. Here's a thousand pictures of Sylvester Stalone, and 900 ads."
My sister, didn't visit for a few years then told family she was going to visit for Christmas, okay. She arrives with unexpected company, her boyfriend, she says. Family never heard about him. 1 month later she visits and goes, oh yeah, "I am expecting in 5 months". 2 months later she goes, oh yeah "I got married last week".
She doesn't understand why dad was so upset...
He should just call her every once in a while...
What are you crazy?
My family communicated exclusively through a Facebook Messenger group chat and my sister keeps posting pictures of her daughter so all the important stuff goes way up in the history. I don't even have Facebook Messenger on my phone. I rarely if ever check the messages because I've removed Facebook from my life.
I got my family off messenger for family chat, onto signal.
My partner never had Facebook, so I got lots of messages "tell Sam blah blah"
I told them via group sms, "hey guys, I deleted Facebook, so if you want us it's phone, SMS, or signal"
So now when they want to tell Sam something, they can @ Sam
Yeah forget it. My family won't budge unfortunately. Apparently, I'm the one who's problematic.
I came home one weekend while in college and my mom's car was gone, but there was an unfamilure minivan. When I got inside, did the normal pleasantries, and I asked about the minivan, my mom dropped:
Oh, I hit some black ice on the way to work last week and spun and got t-boned. I woke up to the paramedics shaking me from behind. They had to some in through the hatchback because the car was laying on the driver's door. Anyway, we're waiting for insurance before we start looking for another car and they gave me a rental in the mean time.
I had talked to her on the phone in between the accident and my visit and she hadn't mentioned it. She broke 2 ribs and had a hairline fractured of her foot - the other driver had a mild concussion. So all-in-all it could have been infinitely worse, but still.
I found out my first cousin had a second child literally a year after she gave birth because everyone thought I was told by someone else.