I have the same problem, but I just laugh it off normally. My grandma gets hilariously untactful when she's drinking, and if my aunts or uncles say "Why don't you have a girlfriend?" I just go "Why should I?" which pretty much shuts them up for the rest of the night.
I think it's based on the whole akwardness of family gatherings though. You're related, have known each other for years, are completely different generations and possibly have little in common. They rack their brains for ways to sound interested in you or start up conversation, and the best they come up with a lot of the time are those asinine questions that everyone despises.
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Last edited by Suave; 02-03-2005 at 12:30 PM..
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