The first time I met my brother-in-law, he probably thought I was rude. It was during my first visit to California in the spring of 2002. Brandon and I had just arrived at church and we were slightly late. So as we made our way toward the stairs through the crowd loitering outside, Brandon quickly introduced the people we passed. "And this is John." He said, gesturing to a guy in his late teens. "Hi, I'm Wendy." I said, and turned to continue inside, seeing as how I'd probably never remember him or anyone else I was introduced to that day (I'm horrible with names. And faces). Turned out, it was Sean, not John, and I am slightly deaf. He was also 14. So as you can see, it's not my fault that I had no idea this was Brandon's little brother.
Sean was slightly surprised that I was so aloof, as we'd talked on AIM numerous times and I knew him well enough to have gotten mad at him twice. Real quick, here's why: The first time was shortly after Brandon put up my first site, FizzyBlueSoda. On my links page I'd written a short description of each person I'd linked to. For Sean's, I'd written something along the lines of "He seems like he'd make a really cool younger brother." To which he said something like "that's not appropriate" since it sounded to him like I was saying "I'm totally going to marry Sean's brother because we are totally in love and stuff" and saying this at a time when the wounds of my ex-boyfriend had barely had time to heal wasn't cool. Of course, that's what I was saying, but since he offended me by saying the truth, I went ahead and changed it to something like "he smells". If you haven't noticed, if I can think of no other way to take a shot at a person, I resort to insulting their scent. It works, you know.
The second time was after a friend (who also chatted with Sean on AIM) came to me concerned about my safety. You see, Sean told her about how Brandon punched his sister once, which indicated that Brandon would probably be an abusive boyfriend. When I inquired about this incident, I found out that Brandon was 11 and his sister was 13 at the time. When my sister and I were that age, we did far worse things to one another (like that time she knocked down my door and held me down and spit on my face cuz she wanted to borrow $20 and I wanted 50% interest on it). For the record, Brandon has never beat me nor would he hurt a fly. If I'd been his sister or a classmate in elementary school, that may have been different, but as it stands I'm safe and unharmed.
So there you go. That's a little about my brother-in-law and our first meeting. I was reminded of this because he blogged on his old site recently. I believe it's the same site I linked way back when. And I was right in my description. He does make a really cool younger brother (in-law).
And he smells.
Sean was slightly surprised that I was so aloof, as we'd talked on AIM numerous times and I knew him well enough to have gotten mad at him twice. Real quick, here's why: The first time was shortly after Brandon put up my first site, FizzyBlueSoda. On my links page I'd written a short description of each person I'd linked to. For Sean's, I'd written something along the lines of "He seems like he'd make a really cool younger brother." To which he said something like "that's not appropriate" since it sounded to him like I was saying "I'm totally going to marry Sean's brother because we are totally in love and stuff" and saying this at a time when the wounds of my ex-boyfriend had barely had time to heal wasn't cool. Of course, that's what I was saying, but since he offended me by saying the truth, I went ahead and changed it to something like "he smells". If you haven't noticed, if I can think of no other way to take a shot at a person, I resort to insulting their scent. It works, you know.
The second time was after a friend (who also chatted with Sean on AIM) came to me concerned about my safety. You see, Sean told her about how Brandon punched his sister once, which indicated that Brandon would probably be an abusive boyfriend. When I inquired about this incident, I found out that Brandon was 11 and his sister was 13 at the time. When my sister and I were that age, we did far worse things to one another (like that time she knocked down my door and held me down and spit on my face cuz she wanted to borrow $20 and I wanted 50% interest on it). For the record, Brandon has never beat me nor would he hurt a fly. If I'd been his sister or a classmate in elementary school, that may have been different, but as it stands I'm safe and unharmed.
So there you go. That's a little about my brother-in-law and our first meeting. I was reminded of this because he blogged on his old site recently. I believe it's the same site I linked way back when. And I was right in my description. He does make a really cool younger brother (in-law).
And he smells.
