What's The Worst Thing That Has Happened At A Family Gathering? (Reddit Stories r/AskReddit)

nsw what's the worst thing that's happened at your family gathering my brother throwing a temper tantrum at age 30 it has been pretty common for him to blow up about little crap all his life it was his youngest daughter's second birthday and he was in a bad mood all day even though our mom and his wife had taken care of everything it came to a head when it was about time to do the cake it was a kind of tall cake with a carousel on the top the dog bumped into the table and the cake shifted a little almost knocking the kilrathi over he stood up and said something like god damn it your frickin dog is ruining everything my mom said calm down the cake is fine he got in her face and said don't tell me what to do be at that point my brother and stepdad got up and kind off surrounded him ready to kick his ass he after a few seconds he finally stormed out of the house and left I feel the need to reiterate at this point that he was 30 years old and it was his daughter's second birthday I am floored that someone like this tube someone not only into marrying him but breeding with him great grandma's funeral in Arkansas I have some distant third cousin named stormy again this is Arkansas and we are all gathered around the grave and as the preacher starts to let us in prayer you hear this awful noise every turns to look and there is stormy swinging an armadillo around his head by the tail one of my other cousins got him to put the armadillo down so we could finish the service but I don't recall ever having seen him at another family gathering since then my stepmom never got along with her sister-in-law brother's wife they got into a fistfight one Thanksgiving at my grandparents house grandma got mad and called the police my dad was a police officer at a time guess who showed up to arrest his wife and sister-in-law Thanksgiving about 1985 family gathering at my parents home a mom dad brother sister grandmas aunts uncles cousins etc all watching football cousin picks up the remote to mess with the volume but turns on the VCR on accident full-blown Pino fills the screen dead leaves grabs the remote and fumbles frantically to turn it off bible thumper the run sister-in-law snatch up their kids and leave cousin says boy that sudden death can really get intense this is like the equivalent of two kids playing with a gun they think isn't loaded always clear the chamber dad grandma died sitting on the couch and we all thought she was sleeping so we went on with dinner we all ate drank and were merry until the wee hours of the morning until somebody tried to wake her up nobody knew what to think about the fact we partied next to grandma's corpse for like six hours I watched it happen and it was awful my cousin was pregnant from a guy who she had only been dating for a few months but he was a good guy on Christmas Eve she invited him to our family gathering and when we were exchanging presents he grabbed a small box from the tree and was two seconds from getting down on one knee when that uncle jokingly says god I hope you're not proposing everyone laughs and this poor guys and a half bent knee half standing pose and just looks up at that uncle and slowly powers through it and slowly gets down on one knee and proceeds to ask her if she'll marry him she said yes and they're engaged but it was one of the worst 45 seconds of my life cheers to the first heartwarming worst story I've seen so far in this soul-crushing thread my grandmother tried to shoot herself in the front yard because my mother wouldn't let me and my siblings 6:4 and to ride sitting on the back hood of my uncle's classic convertible during their neighborhood fourth of July parade she was angry that no one would be able to see our outfits if we were seated inside the car and while trying to shoot herself accidentally grazed my grandpa in the process good times I'm going to pick my favorite stories from this thread and write a Wes Anderson style dark comedy about a dysfunctional family this crap is gold oh I have one this happened like a week ago at a little get-together of family at my house my brother-in-law and his wife got into a huge argument about their new baby's medical care the little one had a terrible case offed psoriasis and he blamed his wife for not staying on top of it causing it to bleed during this shouting match bill declared that if he was going to be raising some other man's baby he was to be calling the freakin shots from then on they have been married for ten years and have two other girls we were all so mortified we left my house ten other people got into cars and went to the park crap has to get pretty awkward before you leave your own house to make things better propose to my girlfriend at my birthday party and she said no then told me she had been cheating on me this was post cake bullet dodged think of it this way at that exact point in time that was probably one of the best outcomes during Christmas with the family we discovered the hard way that my little sister who was three years old was prone to febrile seizures everyone was freaking out while my little sister was blue and foaming at the mouth my coolest crown parent had a seizure I was in late high school at the time and had to take all the little kids upstairs and distract them while everyone else waited for the ambulance etc I remember trying to teach them to count to 10 and Japanese because I just learned in school and it was the only thing I could think of to pass the time good on you for helping in a stressful situation aunts uncles and dad start arguing over my grandfather's possessions after his passing in his house after his funeral lots of yelling pushing get the Frick out that day eventually pulled my dad out of the house in an effort to save the family they never recovered my uncle passed away without ever speaking with my dad again and the others speak a bit of each other but we haven't had any family events it's been three years Thanksgiving back in 1998 I was 8 years old and my wealthy grandparents decided to take the whole family to Maui for the week this included our five person family and around 15 extended family members all was great until Thanksgiving dinner my older cousin started bickering which turned into a pretty big altercation and some food throwing eight-year-old me out is loving it until the uncles get involved my 18 year old male cousin who was a total [ __ ] starts freaking out at my 15 year old female cousin calling her a w-4 reasons unbeknownst to me at this point female cousins dad comes fly over and pontius his nephew so hard that literally is thrown a few feet and nearly knocked out now the other uncle has to defend his son which results in a few punches between those two until my family can separate them there will never be a better Thanksgiving dinner and my grandparents will never take us anywhere again we gathered at my grandma's house where my mom and all her sisters had been raised my oldest aunt had done a bunch of dodgy stuff to glom all the Estates and the sisters had come and force with their husbands and kids to try to talk sense into her it did not work they should have lawyer ed up that this was the 60s heck I don't know why they were all so weak all of us cousins had been kicked outside while the grown-ups argued I was just a little kid and I went in to get a glass of water she had put locks on the cupboard mean aunt came in and slapped me across the face so hard I was staggered I did not get water one of my older cousins found me crying and took me to town riding on his shoulders part of the way to buy me a soda at the drugstore and a few toys many years later my mom told me mean aren't most likely poisoned grandma and it seems true that's fricked up I hope that the mean aunt is never invited to any family gatherings well one of my aunt's found out her husband was cheating on her with a 22 year old Chinese econ student he was 63 at a time so there's that my mother-in-law's boyfriend randomly out of nowhere just says in case anyone was wondering I'm against gay marriage my mother-in-law to her credit looks at him and just said did anyone ask it was an awkward couple of minutes dude wanted a fight my alcoholic uncle got so drunk at his own daughter's wedding that he pee on the wedding cake in front of half the wedding party he quit drinking after that hey you drunk killed frake relatives showing off their weird-looking baby and people trying to not say anything awful about it being one of the first to greet them and thus having no warning all I could come up with was oh that's a baby I guess no blood was spilled but I felt like dirt afterwards this is any event with a new baby i luckily miss this christmas cause me and my mom and dad were in disney my great-grandma had a dog can't recall what it was but it was super small since before I was born well one Christmas everyone is eating in the kitchen with a clear view of the dog in the backyard in the middle of Christmas dinner a big Doberman came into the backyard and ripped the little dog's throat out kind of ruined Christmas my grandmother through her prosthetic breast at me I was watching the American football game during Thanksgiving while my relatives mostly female was sitting at the table within view of the living room suddenly I hear hey name and as I turned to look in that direction this blob comes at me and I reactively catch it they start laughing and I realized that I'm holding my grandma's boob never has a breast being rejected by my hand so quickly we had a huge family dinner at a very fancy restaurant my great aunt decided to move a very fancy pot of flowers with some peacock feathers stuck in it out of the way in this case out of the way meant right above the candles it turns out peacock feathers burn incredibly fast and produce a lot of smoke the whole restaurant had to be evacuated to be honest it wasn't really that bad the dinner had been incredibly boring 14 um we certainly thought the fire made things more interesting 14 yo you was right my extended family ostracized my parents there was a big rift in the family between one of my uncles and my mom he is very manipulative and all-around a huge butthole but they decided to sit down and gave my dad an ultimatum either it is them or my mom my dad grabbed my mom by the hand and left never looked back a dead rat inside the water tank this one day we woke up in a relative's house after a gathering night we found the morning water tasted weird so my cousin and hosts check the water tank the rat was floating there everyone in his house headed to the hospital instantly well we have a family reunion annually and Virginia for some distant relatives on my mom's side no one in my immediate family has attended until about seven years ago when my mother started driving my grandma to the reunion dad says that we could make it a family trip but mom brushed the idea off my parents divorced five years ago and the next year mom somehow cons me into attending the reunion with her and her new boyfriend everyone at the Reunion already knew her boyfriend turns out she had been taking him up to our family reunion for the last few years with my grandma I'm starting to believe my grandma never cared for my dad all that much my grandma was staying over with us at my parents house on Christmas Eve the evening went great and everyone was happy right says everyone's going to bed my grandma starts throwing up in her bed saying she feels horrible but she doesn't want us to call an ambulance because she doesn't want to trouble anyone on Christmas Eve she's like the epitome of a sweet old lady my parents called an ambulance anyways and good thing because it turns out she was having a heart attack she lived ended up having a quadruple bypass followed by a full recovery and our Christmas miracle she's still alive and kicking and still smart as a whip a cougar showed up and we had to lock ourselves inside the house with a shotgun until the cops arrived I thought you were talking about your aunt my 60-year old aunt showed me her new boobies and told me she'd take my vCard and show me what good pee feels like she did this at the dinner table introduced to a distant cousin for the first time who was a 10 she was beautiful and I was told that she was deaf I had never met a deaf person we were both 15 years old I shook her hand and said to my brother who was standing next to me she is a babe she started to laugh I read lips she said holy crap when I first read that comment I thought you meant she was 10 years old was celebrating an uncle's birthday and we realized about 15 minutes into it that grandma died everyone lost their mind because she was 75 and seemed fine ten minutes before died of a massive brain aneurysm whole family was devastated I still took some cake Christmas dinner grandpa picked up something at the store that wasn't what grandma asked for grandma threw frozen chicken at grandpa's head grandpa ducks chicken Hitler's patio door shattering it police were called children were quickly taken and driven home and grandma wonders why most of the family doesn't make much of an effort to stay in touch I used to live in Mauritius and their fireworks are legal like you can buy them anywhere and play with them any time of the year now there are certain dates where a lot of fireworks are used new years of course Holi Indian festivity as well as divil a also Indian festival anyways my whole family is of Indian origin and we celebrate Diwali every year I normally live in a house that includes 4 families and a total of 16 people but during Diwali everyone directly related comes which amounts to roughly around 45 50 people we are outside around 9 p.m. when it's already dark outside and we are playing with fireworks and the kids are enjoying themselves when we decide to use a specific firework looks like a rocket you put it in a standing bottle and light it up it will go high up in the air and explode so we put one in a plastic bottle and just before it goes up the bottle wobbles and starts falling in the firework goes straight into the neighbours only open window the neighbor got a house off two floors with about a bazillion windows all closed except one and that's the one that it aims we watch an orange horror as it goes straight into the room with the window open and after 1.5 seconds the whole room lights up followed by a big bomb I crap you not I never saw people go through a small door so quickly here we are at 9 p.m. 50 people poking their heads out from behind the curtains looking at the window scared shitless the next day we didn't come out before at least 12 my grandmother had a heart attack after Thanksgiving dinner she lived about 12 years ago we were all at my uncle's house me my siblings parents grandparents and obviously my aunt and uncle grandpa was drinking some coffee with dessert when it went down the wrong pipe and he choked up a bit my mom being one of the biggest ovary actors I've ever known assumes he's having another heart attack he has a history of heart trouble and flips the freak out when my arm tried to intervene and say that he wasn't having a heart attack and only coughing because of the coffee they got into a screaming and shoving fight eventually my uncle just goes get the Frick out of my house get the Frick out now ten minutes later we're all in the car and out of there up until last year they cut off all contact with my aunt and uncle and fairly recently they've talked to them added them on Facebook invited them to events etc WTF this is like a scene from the home alone family I use this car to get your attention like the video to be a cool kid if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people

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Length: 16min 25sec (985 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 11 2019