Not Burying The Hatchet
Here’s a nutty story. My wife has an old distant relative who was launching into an ugly divorce, except her husband died before it was final. He was buried according to his will in a plot separate from the one they had bought together in better times, as a symbol of how he wanted to be apart from her forever.
Supposedly she is now insisting that when she dies, she wants to be buried on top of him so she can haunt him forever.
Even if you don’t believe a deceased person would ever know (I don’t believe it) would you ever mete out some form of symbolic justice if it was legal and safe? Do you know of any legendary feuds?
For Instance
In England, people went to extremes after Oliver Cromwell died. King Charles II had Cromwell’s body dug up, beheaded, the body dumped in a pit, and his head stuck on a spike. I’m going to say that’s getting too worked up over a guy who can’t do you any harm.
But in contrast, I just read about how people go to the supposed site of the grave of John Wilkes Booth (he was buried in an unmarked grave) and leave behind Lincoln pennies as a way to give Lincoln the final word. I can definitely endorse that.
Let’s Talks Feuds
Do you know of any juicy feuds among your friends and family? For instance, an old high school couple who had a bad breakup and to this day still won’t talk? Is there any bad blood between your cousins?
Maybe at work your HQ’s accounting department and the regional accounting departments are locked in a battle which means your expense reports are never approved?
Do you follow a sports team where the QB or point guard and coach are at loggerheads? Or maybe you have a special story to share about Joan Fontaine and Bette Davis? I just read that The Rock’s chronic lateness has been making enemies at all levels of Hollywood.
Share Some Dirt
Got some neighbors or coworkers who are in a fight? Have a favorite pro wrestling rivalry where it seems like more than just an act?
Let’s talk about hauntings, feuds, and rivalries, big and small.
Oops, messed up the title. Started this one a while ago and never changed it….
im in a world of shit coz i actually got the job i wanted whilst my team lead and her brother were in the hospital
neither of them want to talk to me anymore
fuck em tho
told those fucking cunts what i was planning years ago…they kept blocking me
oh no..we are going to train people for your position
is a thing ive heard for 5 years now.
anyways they never did so i fucked off
and ive never been happier
Long running silent treatment is the dumbest thing. Keep yelling or work it out.
That same side of my wife’s family had some great uncle or someone who had a son and daughter in law who wouldn’t talk to him for something like a decade or two over something pretty small I think. Definitely not murder or arson. I seem to recall the son and maybe daughter in law went to clown college too. Or maybe were some other kind of circus people? I need to get the story again.
anyways @elliecoo thats the proper use of the c word.
its fucking unisex…im sorry you americans get it wrong……
i wont use it again anytime soon tho…..rules is rules
ugh
see now ugh…..thats a truly offensive word
three little letters that convey nothing but i cant be fucked with your opinion
dismissive and rude is what that is
(i kid myo)
i wish you were capable of understanding how much i appreciate this comment of yours.
@Farscythe that does sound like proper usage.
thank you and sorry
was nice getting my true feefees out for a sec tho…
random unsolicited underrated 80’s canadian song…
Shit, if both families weren’t feuding then there wouldn’t be any family.
My dad vs my cousin’s wife. She threw a hissy fit over that which I don’t know. From what I know, they’ve never spoken again even after my cousin died.
My dad vs his older brother. He waited over 50 years to settle that one but my uncle was already half way into Alzheimer’s so what’s the point? It seemed stupid to me and I’m like my dad… Holding grudges too long.
My mom vs her oldest brother. He wasn’t good with money and ended up grabbing most of my late grandmother’s estate for himself. Mom was upset for her sisters who needed the cash. When one of his daughters got married, she didn’t even bother to send a gift… That’s cold for a Korean woman.
My parents vs both neighbors. This was the stupidest. They fought over trees, over a barking dog, over the fence line over anything. Everything was a thing. The worst part is my parents were the bad guys for the most part.
Former housemate and I. Fuck him. He knows what he did. I know what I did to him. We barely speak. However I did respect my late friend’s wishes for him to be at his funeral.
Former manager and I. I didn’t appreciate that he tried to submarine me which was successful career wise but not unemployment wise… He didn’t appreciate that I humiliated him in front of his peers several times. I realized (he hasn’t) that he and I are different sides of the same coin. Only difference is I learned not to assume I’m smart at everything and that every idea I have is gold (mostly fools gold.) He is me if I didn’t get righteously ass kicked in university and was taught some humility.
50 years with a brother, wow, that’s something. Ten I could imagine, but even that seems hard.
My dad wanted to study physics and my uncle went “Nah then get your own tuition. You study engineering.” My dad was furious. He told me he hates when people mess with his life. The irony being dad did the same to me… Sort of.
Even worse, he had to scrounge for tuition anyway. He felt his brother took away his dreams of being a theoretical physicist.
Some 20 years later when my uncle asked my dad for money… It didn’t go well. The family was upset with dad. Dad didn’t care but he never really explained himself as to why he took vengeance on his brother till some 50 years after the fact when it didn’t really matter.