Well if this blog has anyone following it, Hi it's been a long while. This post is going to mostly be a dump of tonight's events to clear my head. Basically I think I pissed off an uncle that had a few drinks. Admittedly that might not be a difficult task if you're trying to do it, which I wasn't. So here is the basic rundown of my weekend and more detail about possibly pissing off my uncle.
For anyone reading this who doesn't know me, I'm an introvert. Meaning I can be social, but I need considerable "me" time to recharge. Otherwise I get drained which can make me ultra quiet and irritable.
With that said. Saturday I spent from late afternoon through the night at a wedding. I had a lot of fun, but that makes for a night that really drains me. Then Sunday my uncle was having people over for Labor day. So I went around 2-3 o'clock after not really sleeping well the night before. So I'm tired and drained from the previous night and slightly irritable. So I'm largely quiet at my uncles house. I have lunch and talk on and off with people. After the baseball game everyone was watching I walked into another room for a while and came back and noticed American Sniper was on. When it was mentioned I made an off hand comment about how 75% of it was BS. Which an uncle (not the one who's house we were visiting) didn't like. He is former military and tends to take the militaries side on anything few to no questions asked. Now I will admit that I insinuated that the 75% I mentioned was about Bradly Coopers character in that movie. Which I was wrong to do, I was misremembering something about a bunch of stories that came out somewhere around 2-3 years ago. There was some quick conversation about that which someone else quickly changed to another topic and I dropped it. No big deal right.
I went into another room for awhile again, hung out with other family members and came back out and they were talking about it again. They were talking about the real life law suit against Chris Kyle by Jesse Ventura. Too which my uncle again defends Kyle by attacking Ventura. Saying Ventura (who claims to be a former Navy Seal) wasn't actually a Seal but a "Frog Man" which sounds like someone who did some of the training but not all. I'm not military so I'm not really sure. I'm just going by what my uncle said and taking him at his word about it. Then when I point out that Kyles book also said he was shooting people from the top of the Super Dome during hurricane Katrina. His response was to ask if that was Kyle saying it or some author saying it. Too which we have to point out that Kyle had to okay everything that goes into a book like that. They are claiming it's real life, he is the subject of the book. So it doesn't go in there if he doesn't tell that story to the writer (if the book was even ghost written, I really don't know).
So my uncle says that you don't get a funeral like his if your a piece of shit so he was an American hero. At which point I'm not looking for a fight so I drop it instead of pointing out that his numbers are go high because he killed civilians nearly indiscriminately according to his own accounts of his time in Afghanistan. Kyle was also involved in an action in Fallujah where military snipers killed untold numbers of civilians. Which by the by, is a war crime. But instead of pointing that out and throwing fuel on the fire I let it drop.
Eventually everyone moves downstairs to play cards. Not being a card player I just watch for a bit then go and sit on the couch working on something while they play. Eventually as it always does two of my uncles find a racist tirade to go on. This time it was about Native Americans. Some at the table didn't day anything, some subtly tried to turn the conversation. So I decided it was time for me to go before I popped off at someone (keep in mind nearly everyone else is drinking, especially those two uncles). So I start to get ready to go then one of them says something about the following trendies. So I simply mention that if following treaties is the standard, then the government should do it too, because we are still breaking treaties with Native American tribes. No one responded to that so I figured they were ignoring it or didn't hear me, it was getting kind of loud and I prefer to stay soft spoken. As I'm going up the stairs the uncle I think I pissed off said Bye (my name) I hope you enjoyed the food. Which was a bit off putting, but he did like to cook so okay he was just drunk and didn't pick the best words whatever. But while I was upstairs he started yelling and I caught his wife saying something like nock it off, and my uncle yelling back I caught "I hate ..." and something that sounded like racist. But I could have misheard it. When I had all my things and was ready to go, I popped my head back down stairs and everyone else said bye to me and he wouldn't even look at me. So maybe I'm wrong, but I think I pissed drunk him off.
If I did, what probably happened was that he sees me be quiet most of the time, where he has a really loud personality. And he is used to being the loudest one and people backing off because of that. But when I don't back off he doesn't know how to deal with it (especially when drunk) nor can he make a real argument against anything I say as I follow these things fairly closely and he doesn't. And maybe he's figured out that when the talk get racial, that is when I leave because I don't want to start that fight in someone else's home. Hopefully I misheard what happened downstairs but who knows.
