I grow tired of dealing with insufferable rudeness at home. I seem to be the only person capable of holding civil discussion that yields any substance of the three people in the family here. Every time I try to discuss something with the old man he runs away, makes up bs excuses why he can't talk and treats his opinion as gospel thus enacting either of the previous two methods the minute you criticize his opinion in any way. But the real issue is that when you try to talk at all, he lets you get in about five words before he tells you to just stop so he can say something, even if he's just going to repeat what he said - and even if you're not talking about that anymore. Grandmother gets snippy when I mention anything that isn't a problem she also has, and when I tell her to relax, starts getting really **censor** personal and insults me or says how rude I'm being trying to express a feeling just because she doesn't experience it herself. I stopped discussing opinions with her because, well, she doesn't exactly follow complex conversations very well in all honesty.
I sit here trying not to lose my cool, but the problem with family is they know exactly how to push those buttons one does have, regardless of how few.