My Mother-in-Law Came to Tear Apart My Eccentric Family

New Year's Day.

Mom, Dad, and my brother's family swung by to check out my new digs.

May, holding her eight-year-old who's still a bit tongue-tied, declared with a flourish,

"Tommy, this pad's yours starting today!"

Given that my parents always played favorites, favoring my brother, they figured since I wasn't hitched, why not just put the house in his name.

I just watched these so-called "relatives" coldly and fetched a mop from the kitchen to send them packing.