# Fill in the blank: "I am my family's Official Family \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_." **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 18, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928 "2002-03-18T20:48:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/1 "2002-03-18T20:48:33Z")
Mine would be either “Martyr” or “Exhibitionist”. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/2 "2002-03-18T21:06:15Z")
Black Sheep. 😃 I even have the stuffed animal to prove it. For Easter a couple of years ago, my mom gave everyone a stuffed animal. Everyone else got ducks. I got a black sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/3 "2002-03-18T21:09:48Z")
My wife: Beer Wench Me: Drunk :wally ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/4 "2002-03-18T21:23:09Z")
Gee, it took me so long to actually log in that I forgot what I was answering… :o Troglodyte… yup, that’s it, troglodyte 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/5 "2002-03-18T21:26:20Z")
I’d be the **uncomfortable with any emotion so cracks jokes** member of the family. Actually, me and one of my brothers are typical middle children…we sort of learned to do our own thing and accept not standing out, while the oldest is the hero and the youngest is the black sheep and therefore get all the attention. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/6 "2002-03-18T21:43:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lsura \* > \*\*I’d be the **uncomfortable with any emotion so cracks jokes** member of the family. Actually, me and one of my brothers are typical middle children…we sort of learned to do our own thing and accept not standing out, while the oldest is the hero and the youngest is the black sheep and therefore get all the attention. \*\* Hmm, you must have a different family dynamic than I do, because I, as the youngest child, am the Emot-o-phobic Family Jester, while my middle-child sister is the black sheep (in HER estimation, anyway). But you’re right… I do get all the attention (it’s the exhibitionism, you know). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![\_your\_name\_here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/919ad9/32.png) [@\_your\_name\_here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_your_name_here)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/7 "2002-03-18T21:43:39Z")
I’m the Far Away Boy. Kinda hard to explain, but I’m the one who tends to be a bit away from everyone else. Being the younger child, and unable to get away from stuff, I’m dragged down, no one else in my family is. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/8 "2002-03-18T21:47:17Z")
Well, I think I have already answered THAT elsewhere today . . . ---
**Author:** ![NotMrKnowItAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@NotMrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/9 "2002-03-18T21:51:19Z")
Memory. My sister called the other day to ask about the origin of several scars on her hand. My brother did it when she was two. So that would be 1969, springtime. We were loading up into the Volkwagon Campmobile going on a trip to Port Aransas, Texas. He pulled a butter knive out of her clenched hand… ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/10 "2002-03-18T22:13:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Well, I think I have already answered THAT elsewhere today . . . \*\* I say every family needs one of you. 😃 But what do you do after Thanksgiving dinner…? Fall asleep in front of the tube with your hand down your pants, or continue to slave away in the kitchen, cleaning up the mess? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/11 "2002-03-18T22:13:54Z")
Stubborn Mule My sisters may have bratty moments, but my parents hardly blink after the hell I put them through when I was little. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/12 "2002-03-18T22:23:49Z")
Historian. Care giver. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/13 "2002-03-18T22:30:49Z")
Gobshite ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/14 "2002-03-18T22:32:12Z")
Interpreter. Being the only one in my family who can both sign fluently and hear, I’m the one who interprets between the deaf members of the family and the hearing ones since none of the rest of the family ever really bothered to learn to communicate. They can manage conversations without me but they tend to get a little… confused. I’ve overheard my aunt answering a question from my dad about the state of affairs in the middle east with the reply “Yes, you do like skiing don’t you?” So generally I get to spend all day interpreting at family events. Of course, there’s scope for me to simply make up what the other person said. It’s been known to happen. hehe. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/15 "2002-03-18T22:57:21Z")
Cook. All family holidays, I’m in the kitchen. I usually don’t mind as I’m pretty happy with doing it (and if I didn’t do it, they’d be ordering deli trays and cracking open bins of potato salad–even on Christmas). ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/16 "2002-03-18T23:00:05Z")
Health Nut It began about 5 years ago when I started to lose weight. Then I went to work for Weight Watchers. Then I started running. Then I started running marathons. The above may or may not have anything to do with that.😛 I have a pretty lazy and somewhat heavy family. So my success (to date, knock on wood) is somewhat noteworthy. SHOOT! Just realized I forgot to start this week’s Dieting Dopers thread… ---
**Author:** ![ringmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@ringmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ringmaster)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/17 "2002-03-18T23:07:16Z")
3rd child. duh. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/18 "2002-03-18T23:30:03Z")
"I am my family’s Official Family … **Fuck-Up**" Thanks for playing. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/19 "2002-03-18T23:34:39Z")
**Tech support** Having trouble with your computer/VCR/camcorder/stereo/TV/cell phone/whatever? I’m the one everyone calls. ---
**Author:** ![Hardwood\_Paneling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hardwood\_Paneling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hardwood_Paneling)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928/20 "2002-03-18T23:48:09Z")
My folks, my siblings, my wife’s folks and siblings, all call me when a roof leaks or fuse blows (that actually happened!) or computer crashes or boyfriend leaves or proposes. I dispense advice, sweat, and tools. I kind of like it, it makes me feel like I am needed! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fill-in-the-blank-i-am-my-familys-official-family-_________/98928.md?page=2)