Anyone else feel so awkward at (family) get togethers that you just blurt something out?

[IrishAyes]

6. If a conversation has bored you into brain freeze, you're not entirely responsible for what

pops out of your mouth unbidden. Are you??? Frankly, there's only so much medical history and minutia of the lives of people I don't know and will never meet, that I can take. Maybe it beats political rants, though, so I should be grateful. Or pecking other people to pieces - especially moi. My family's gone now, but when they were alive I adored some and tried to stay as far away from the others as possible. One good thing about fractious Irish clans, however - usually like hangs with like, because it seems a lot of us feel the same way. What I loved was people who knew family history back to Ireland and could carry on at fascinating length about all the feuds and such. I also found that the less I said, the more I'd hear.