When you throw stones at a lion and cause it to try to maul you, do you go back and throw more stones at it?
My aunt absolutely refuses to think she could possibly be any less than a shining example of pure perfection. She's constantly trying to control everyone's lives down to the most minute details. There's no way to make her pop flyin' unless we fill out her requests not only to the letter but to the font, size and and very formatting of the given task. If something is eeever so slightly off, she'll start ranting and raving about how no one ever does anything right.
Last night, she was out of town all day because she took it upon herself to go out and solve someone else's problem (likely without even being asked, as she tends to do). She didn't do anything for her twenty-something pets before leaving. Mom decided to be nice and give them all food and water. When she returned, she started yelling at Mom about how she didn't follow some protocol since one of the dog's bowls was placed in the wrong spot outside.
Now, she has this infuriating habit of believing she says things to people. She never actually says what she wants someone to do. She'll start talking, and then she'll jump subjects eight different times in two minutes (it's been counted) and then walk off while leaving us to try and pick together the pieces. If we don't figure out what she wanted, she'll go on a rampage.
Last night, my Aunt came into the room we are all living in and started asking why we didn't sweep up this bug-killing powder that she spread all over the floor three weeks ago. We replied to her, all three of us, that she told us
specifically not to touch it and that she'd sweep it up herself after three days (which she never did, obviously). She repeated herself five times in the same sitting, between each time she shifted subjects about dogs, her brother, people who aren't getting their lives together and trying to get into other people's stuff (
wait a minute...). After she wasn't getting anywhere with her arguing, she began pretending that nothing ever happened and then turned to Mom.
My aunt started grilling Mom about how she needs hurry and do "stuff that needs to be done" and "that cheddar thing". Mom had no idea what she was talking about and asked for clarification, to which my Aunt replied "Have you always had this memory problem?"
Before I continue, I want to say she has this thing where she absolutely refuses to answer a question if she has another thought in mind. Mom was in no mood to answer a question that was given in reply to her question, so she asked "What are you even talking about? What 'cheddar thing'?" My aunt wouldn't relent on the memory question.
She then started ranting about how Mom was being non-compliant and then specifically stated that
she was being compliant before anyone event said anything about the non-compliance statement.
I eventually stepped in and told her that no one would get any answers if she wouldn't let people know what she's talking about. She then raise a hand at me in a way to say "you stay out of this." This is the exact same scenario that caused me to have
my last panic attack.
Now, I had more mental control this time because I knew exactly what was coming. For some reason, people like her (always "right", highly opinionated, never "wrong") tend to act like game AIs and don't learn from their previous mistakes. Always doing the exact same things when presented with a situation. So, instead of getting overly angry like I did before and nearly breaking my hand in emotionally-blinded rage, I gave her a
very disapproving glare and told her to answer Mom's question.
She then said "Don't you go off again!" while punching numbers into her phone. I told her that the only thing Mom wanted was context to the situation and that she was being the cause for the current situation.
She then stated "If you do anything, I'm calling this," and flashed the phone at me, with 911 dialed into it. She was seriously going to try and call 911 on me. And then she started
TRYING to provoke me into having one of my very difficult-to-control panic attacks that she KNOWS I can't do anything about when they start.
Now, my brother is all cool and level headed and stuff. So he walks up to her and says "Stop taunting Airra!" This causes her to back up and say stuff at him that I couldn't understand because I was too focused on how FREAKING IDIOTIC AND STUPID she is. So, she steps back out of the room while my brother is standing up for me because he is so awesome and stuff and shuts the door in her face and locks it.
So, now I'm typing all of this here because you're all awesome people and I feel relatively accepted around here and such, so I feel like you all have the right to know.
TL;DR: Aunt started a fight. Threatened to call 911 on me while actively trying to provoke me into getting angry all because I gave her a disapproving glare. Brother stepped in and defended me.
