holey smokes, this is a long post. longest I have seen yet.
I, I am an introvert. And some of my family insist on making regular visits.
I think, "why, why would I spend more than a few days of my year talking to an socializing with people I barely know, have no common grounds with, and generally cannot relate to?"
It's just like, WTF, y'know?
EDIT: and I just can't stand religous fanatics. Not regular religious people, but the people who are like "Katrina and the bad economy are god's punishment for tolerating gays, and I will totally push for creationist stuff to be put in science text books, and you will burn in hell for all of eternity because you do not believe". I mean, I understand that you have the right to believe what you want to, but when you attempt to force that on others and remove their choice of belief, that's just wrong.