Community Conversation => Transitioning => Coming out of the closet => Topic started by: Hazumu on November 24, 2006, 10:26:05 AM Return to Full Version
Title: Damn Nosy Nephew
Post by: Hazumu on November 24, 2006, 10:26:05 AM
Post by: Hazumu on November 24, 2006, 10:26:05 AM
I entered my sister's house for Thanksgiving, and my nephew immediately bellowed out, "Hello, Uncle Xxxxxx!!!"
Oh, jeez...
I collected a can of Guinness and a pint glass from the kitchen, and engaged in the usual family banter, waiting for Steve (the nephew,) to need to dilute the blood in his nicotine stream ('go have a smoke...')
Eventually he signaled his need for a fix, and we headed out to the patio. I was NOT going to out myself, but I WAS going to behave exactly as I am now. We talked catch-up. I told him of the Global Hawk launch and recovery I'd videotaped, he talked about things he was doing working in SoCal.
But he kept probing, and I kept swatting away and changing the subject...
"What's up with your voice, dude? You been taking singing lessons or something?" Not really a question, that... I tried to deflect, lying that my voice was tired from shouting during the Global Hawk event. I don't live very well, and never have. Besides, my sister is a singing instructor/coach (and it just occurred to me as I write this that she might have coached him to say that!!!)
I swore him to secrecy and outed myself. No sooner did the word 'transsexual' leave my lips when the patio door opened and Jake, My nieces' nosy fiancee walked out, and Steve and I had to stifle giggles as he made himself a pest and then finally left.
Steve took it well. After we talked it out, I handed him a copy of my letter to read later. He clued me in that when he got to the house, one of the first things everyone else had asked him was, "Have you SEEN Xxxxxx lately???" My family...
So, he knows, they suspect, I'm smiling as I write this. I wonder what I'll be getting for Christmas? ;)
Karen
P.S., I see him again tonight, along with his mom (my other sister,) and her new husband. So I'll get to pump him for what they said about me after I collected my dad and we left... ;D ;D ;D
Oh, jeez...
I collected a can of Guinness and a pint glass from the kitchen, and engaged in the usual family banter, waiting for Steve (the nephew,) to need to dilute the blood in his nicotine stream ('go have a smoke...')
Eventually he signaled his need for a fix, and we headed out to the patio. I was NOT going to out myself, but I WAS going to behave exactly as I am now. We talked catch-up. I told him of the Global Hawk launch and recovery I'd videotaped, he talked about things he was doing working in SoCal.
But he kept probing, and I kept swatting away and changing the subject...
"What's up with your voice, dude? You been taking singing lessons or something?" Not really a question, that... I tried to deflect, lying that my voice was tired from shouting during the Global Hawk event. I don't live very well, and never have. Besides, my sister is a singing instructor/coach (and it just occurred to me as I write this that she might have coached him to say that!!!)
I swore him to secrecy and outed myself. No sooner did the word 'transsexual' leave my lips when the patio door opened and Jake, My nieces' nosy fiancee walked out, and Steve and I had to stifle giggles as he made himself a pest and then finally left.
Steve took it well. After we talked it out, I handed him a copy of my letter to read later. He clued me in that when he got to the house, one of the first things everyone else had asked him was, "Have you SEEN Xxxxxx lately???" My family...
So, he knows, they suspect, I'm smiling as I write this. I wonder what I'll be getting for Christmas? ;)
Karen
P.S., I see him again tonight, along with his mom (my other sister,) and her new husband. So I'll get to pump him for what they said about me after I collected my dad and we left... ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Damn Nosy Nephew
Post by: Ricki on November 24, 2006, 08:36:25 PM
Post by: Ricki on November 24, 2006, 08:36:25 PM
Karen for point sakes I'll say yours is a better scenario than mine?
A year ago then 12 my mephew busted me in a stuffed bra, hose and slip????
agghhh imagine my horror! :o
Rest assured his alcoholic father talked to him so that made evrything right!
agghhhhh :o :o :o
what a tangled web we weave!
Ricki
A year ago then 12 my mephew busted me in a stuffed bra, hose and slip????
agghhh imagine my horror! :o
Rest assured his alcoholic father talked to him so that made evrything right!
agghhhhh :o :o :o
what a tangled web we weave!
Ricki
Title: Re: Damn Nosy Nephew
Post by: Hazumu on November 25, 2006, 01:30:48 AM
Post by: Hazumu on November 25, 2006, 01:30:48 AM
Saw Steve again tonight. We were guests at his mom's house for dinner.
Of course, as soon as I left the party last night, everybody jumped on Steve, "Well, what's going on with Xxxxxx?" He held his ground, and told them to go ask the source. I was giggling as he related this, and he said, "You're kinda' enjoying this, aren't you?" Yeah, in a way I am -- the way that people can't just come to the point. I guess I'll just have to make the announcement...
The sister I visited tonight was also on to me, but didn't ask in a place where there was privacy -- her new husband and his daughter were in the living room with us, and she was whispering, asking what is going on. Not a good place to blurt out "Hey! I'm Transsexual!!!"
I only hope I can get past this without alienating either of them <sigh>
Karen
Of course, as soon as I left the party last night, everybody jumped on Steve, "Well, what's going on with Xxxxxx?" He held his ground, and told them to go ask the source. I was giggling as he related this, and he said, "You're kinda' enjoying this, aren't you?" Yeah, in a way I am -- the way that people can't just come to the point. I guess I'll just have to make the announcement...
The sister I visited tonight was also on to me, but didn't ask in a place where there was privacy -- her new husband and his daughter were in the living room with us, and she was whispering, asking what is going on. Not a good place to blurt out "Hey! I'm Transsexual!!!"
I only hope I can get past this without alienating either of them <sigh>
Karen