The Ongoing ‘Gay Brother’ Saga

And so it continues…

Friday night, everybody was gathered in the kitchen after my mom and dad had returned from their weekly grocery shopping. My mom, my brother, and me were joking around about something my mom had said early when my dad suddenly erupts on my brother with his “you’re gay” crap.

Now up until this point, all that my brother had heard about this had been translated through my mom. When my dad opened his mouth, my brother shot me that brother look that we use so frequently. It kind of scared me. Does he know about me? He does. I’m almost 100% sure that he does.

I leaned against the sink smiling slightly as I watched my dad assault him with a barrage of questions and accusations. I watched my brother closely. He stayed calm and cool this time, never flinched or showed any sign of discomfort. Maybe he is telling the truth here (he probably is). Or maybe he’s just gotten really good at it. But it’s always been me who has had the gay questions… he shouldn’t be that good!

Toward the end of my dad’s badgering, my dad said something to the effect of “you better watch that guy… he can get you. He can turn you.” Ah, ignorance! Again, I thought to myself “what the fuck?” That’s a very common thought by the way.

The gay accusations dissolved into my dad determining that my brother will be addicted to gambling – my brother and his co-worker went to the casino that night – and lose every bit of his money on it. This then led into talking about people from our church that he had heard had won like $10,000 at the casino and him passing judgment on them for doing that. Hypocrite. It’s almost laughable how absurd some of the shit my dad says is. Just seconds after saying all of that, he talks about some woman at church that he’s in love with. In fact, most of his conversations throughout the day are centered around this woman. Keep in mind that he’s married! I don’t know how my mom has put up with it. If I was her, I would have divorce his ass years ago. Sometimes, I wonder if they have come close to divorce over this but kept it together just for us.

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I was originally going add more to this, but an optical migraine suddenly hit me tonight. You know, the type where some of your vision just goes. I can’t see parts of the left side of the screen right now! So that’s all for now. What is here was typed earlier today before the migraine. Maybe more tomorrow. Or later tonight if at least the vision part of the migraine goes away.