Trying To Hold A Candle To Christmas
Home | USA(A friend of mine is Jewish while I and my family are not. I’m bringing my very young cousin over to play with her kids so my aunt can decorate the house. My friend has a Menorah sitting over...
View ArticleHis Guesses Are Getting Colder
Home | UK(My family are at my aunt’s home, my five-year-old cousin asks why we don’t visit more often.) Me: “Well, we live quite far away.” Cousin: “Like school?” Me: “Um… further away than that; it...
View ArticleNo-Jito
Restaurant | AK, USA(My whole family is eating dinner at a nice restaurant on our trip to Alaska. My little cousin has, as usual, insisted on sitting next to me while her parents are on the other end...
View ArticleAll Grown Up But Not Grown Up
Pool | CA, USA(My sister and I are in our 30s, and have just met our cousin’s five-year-old daughter for the first time. We’re all in our aunt and uncle’s (her grandparents’) pool.) Little Cousin: “I...
View ArticleHas A Hiss-tory With Cats
Restaurant | Milwaukee, WI, USA(My family is together for my brother’s wedding. I’m talking with my cousin’s daughter, who’s only recently started talking.) Cousin: “[Daughter], what sound does a dog...
View ArticleThe Bottom Line
Home | IN, USA(My four-year-old cousin is visiting. She is at that stage where she loves asking “why” about everything. One day, she walks into my room, despite the door being closed, while I’m getting...
View ArticleA Heartfelt Age
Home | USA(I am with my five-year-old cousin in my family room, while my aunt, mother, and father are watching TV. I pick up my cousin and swing him around, holding him by his chest. Afterwards, we sit...
View ArticleHooked On Gingerbread
Home | WA, USA(My little cousin that’s about four is decorating his tiny Christmas tree with ornaments when he finds his favorite gingerbread man ornament doesn’t have the metal hook to hang it on the...
View ArticleNot Getting Ahead That Easily
Home | Germany(My father’s cousin is having a quarrel with his brother. Their mother steps in:) Mother: “[Cousin], the wiser head gives in.” Cousin: “I’m not that stupid to want to be always the wiser...
View ArticleLosing The Wilma To Live
Home | OH, USA(For the last four weeks, I have been getting phone calls from a company asking for Wilma. Each time I tell them it’s the wrong number but they still keep calling. My name is not even...
View ArticleA Very Blonde Comment
Home | TN, USA(I’m watching a movie with Asian people in it with my great cousin.) Cousin: “He speaks good Chinese for a white guy.” Me: “Um… He is Chinese.” Cousin: “No, he isn’t. He has blond hair!”
View ArticleSave The Date To Get Tested
Text/Chat/Email | OH, USA(I have just received in the mail a ‘Save The Date’ for my cousin’s wedding. I decide to text him to thank him for having invited me and to confirm that I had received it.) Me:...
View ArticleBoth Their Necks On The Line
Home | AZ, USA(My cousin and I are hanging out in the living room and I turn my neck and it crack very loudly.) Cousin: “That’s awesome.” (She proceeds to try to turn her neck to also make a loud...
View ArticleThat Logic Won’t Quite Set The World On Fire
Outdoors | USA(My cousin and I are walking home from the park. I live in a small town.) Cousin: “You guys have really nice fire trucks.” Me: “Yeah, too bad they don’t get used so much.” Cousin: “Yeah…...
View ArticleI Swear I Heard Whispering
Home | USA(We have family visiting for the holidays, so my cousin and I have taken refuge in my room to play video games. There’s no noise rule in our house as long as it’s not an unreasonable hour, so...
View ArticleShe Really Needs To Change Her Tune
Home | MO, USA(My grandpa, two aunts, and three cousins are over at my dad’s apartment after my cousins’ swimming lessons. My cousins, our aunt, my dad, and I are in the kitchen while the boys eat....
View ArticleGirls Love Biker Boys
Restaurant | Tel-Aviv, Israel(My little cousin has ADHD and loves to ride his bike. We are currently talking about marriages.) My Dad: “So are you going to be like [Cousin #2] and have lots of...
View ArticleLost In Multiple Translations
Home | Germany(I am visiting my family in Germany for the first time in several years. My German is a bit rusty.) Cousin: *in German* “[Name], I do speak English if you’d prefer.” Me: *in German*...
View ArticleA Great-Grand Insult
Home | CA, USA(All my life, everyone in my dad’s family has told me how much I look like my great-grandmother, who died years before I was born. I have never seen a picture of her, however. At my...
View ArticleNeeds A New Emoticon
Text/Chat/Email | Portland, OR, USA(It’s late at night when I’m about to fall asleep and my cousin just sent me a text. Trying not to sound annoyed with him I’ve decided to try and be casual.) Cousin:...
View Article