I have the dubious honour of being related to some really really strange people. The strange ones are on my Mum's side (why am I not surprised??)- the funny (funny ha ha, I mean) ones are on Dad's.

Anyway, tonight we were having dinner and suddenly this car appears in our driveway...and it's strange Uncle and Aunt #2 (as in, Mum's 2nd oldest brother). Tonight is just a case in point of their strangeness. When we have visitors, it's usually to visit my sister, to see how she's going, etc. And since we were never on "dropping in on" terms with them before this whole situation (o, except when one of them has a minor ailment and they drop in at 7a.m in the morning =p), we can only assume that they came to see Rae. BUT, for their whole visit, they've sat in our living room and watched our Foxtel and read our SMH. Or even if they didn't come to see her, they didn't even ask how she was doing....What the?? And it's not like they said "O, you're still eating, we'll entertain ourselves til you're done", no! They just plonk themselves down and start talking to us, grabbing our remote control, helping themselves to our paper!

I know, I sound really anal, but come on....manners! Other weird habits involve my Aunt thinking 6a.m in the morning is an excellent time for a social phone call, cooking totally random (or half eaten) food and giving it to us, Aunt talking incessantly about her grand-daughter (and I mean incessantly), Uncle helping himself to a book Mum had just been given as a gift, and returning it two weeks later totally bent and dog-eared with a coffee stain on, Aunt helping herself to almost anything in our house on display- taking it, then saying "O, I've taken X", or alternatively, helping herself to things from our kitchen, even our garden (nothing is safe!)...

Ergh! Just had to get it out of my system...
=p