Aunties: The good, bad and the ugly

Some are just plain nasty [Photo: Shutterstock]

God, who knows everything, long knew He couldn’t be everywhere. So, he created aunties - those sweet, but sometimes sour extensions of your mother. You’re their nephew or niece, whether they are from your father’s or mother’s side of the family, and hence you’re bound together by love, blood and lots of laughter.

But aunties come in different shapes, sizes and mood swings. Though most are temperate, there is always that hot-blooded auntie who can’t keep her mouth shut when the rice at the wedding is crunchy like potato crisps. Then there is that auntie everyone likes, the one you passed off as your mother when you skived high school, and you were punished to buy barbed wire for using the panya route under the fence.