If you were to ask me, there aren’t things that are a whole lot worse than family reunions… I’m sure that there are many families out there that have superb experiences with those kinds of things.
For me personally they are simply the worst.
For example, last year when my sibling was chosen to host the family reunion it ended up going south really fast. It was a rather warm summer time afternoon, and the outdated and run down property that all of us had rented out for the weekend wasn’t up to the challenge of keeping us cool. Maybe it wasn’t the property per se, it was actually due to the small window mounted a/c equipment in the property. This outdated window A/C looked to be from the 90’s, and considering the weak cool air flow coming from it that is a pretty generous guess. From the time that my sibling had been chosen to host I had told her that all of us were going to need a larger location that was reliable. Thanks to my sibling’s cheap mindset she didn’t bother to listen to me. It didn’t take too long for the window mounted a/c equipment to quit working from being pushed to its limit. This led to a great deal of fighting within the family, and eventually after another hour, the reunion was cancelled early. I can’t say that I am upset that I was able to get out of this reunion earlier than I predicted, but boy it sure was a miserable experience leading up to this point.