I dread family get togethers, lunch. I always feel like I am walking on eggshells. There is always the offhandedly stated comment that pisses someone off. Usually it comes out of my mouth. I do not suffer fools well, regardless if the fools happens to be a member of my own family.

So I limit family contact to virtual contact and phone calls. A multiple hour drive to do lunch tends to make me bitchy. A virtual visit or a phone call you can just say “got to go”. However here I sit trying to be on my my best behavior. How long will I last operating in this mode?

No telling. Already on countdown to making the comment, five, four, three, two, one.

Game on.