A couple of hours ago, I got off the phone with one of my cousins. Her name is Blanda and from a young age, I thought she was my first cousin. When I was little, I always thought I was visiting her house and that the two adults there were her uncle and aunt. I was wrong.
After a couple minutes into the conversation, my dad peeked his head in and I asked him how Blanda was related to me to make sure. He told me that the man at the house we visit is actually my great uncle. After that, I assumed that she was my 2nd cousin and so we chatted it up for a few hours because we hadn't seen each other in years.
The thing is during the conversation, the question kept popping up.
"Are you sure we're related that way?"
And so for about a half hour of the conversation, here's how it went:
"Oh, I think I got it. Yeah, I got it, I got it."
"Awesome."
"Wait, wait... I don't got it."
(Rinse and Repeat)
So eventually we got so mind-boggled we kind of just left it at, "We're 2nd cousins. Done."
But another question soon arose. Blanda asked me about this possible great uncle that was at her house and how the family called him only uncle. So once again there rose another search.
After a myriad of attempts to figure it out in my head however, I decided to draw it out (Ingenious, I know.)
And then after a couple of failed attempts, I finally figured it out. With the help of the internet and her background info, I found that he was her mom's uncle. This apparently makes him her 1st cousin once removed. And there you have it, a massive cyclone of pronouns and in the end, he wasn't even Blanda's uncle...
P.S. After the end of the conversation, I asked my dad again, twice, to be 100% sure. Apparently, I found out that my grandma and her grandpa are actually cousins, making us 3rd cousins. Great...
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| If only it were this simple. |
HAHA!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou are exactly right. My father has eight brothers and 1 sister, i have so many cousins that i dont evenknow all of them. All of my cousins are scattered all over the world, so everytime a new came to visit, and introduced themselves, I got so confused because he/she would actually be mothers age and their kids would be my age. Even now it's hard to keep track of who is my first, second or third cousin. There are so many that I never met.