Drowned out

I dreamt that my sister had a child out of wedlock. I was in a car with my parents, my sister, and her new baby boy. The baby boy was sleeping soundly in the back seat and I was looking at it, thinking how adorable it was. I was thinking how it was cool that my parents were happy about the baby and not at all freaking out about the fact that the child was born out of wedlock, and that we didn't know who the father is. (Presumably my sister did but she didn't tell us.)

I was excited about the baby and asked my sister something about the baby. (I probably asked something like "How much did he weigh when he was born?") My sister lashed out angrily at me and yelled at me for asking her any questions or attempting to converse with her at all: "WHY? WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME?") (This is exactly how she responded in real life when I asked her last Christmas how her new job in California was going.) It was as though she were angry at the world, and while everyone else focused on the new and exciting life that joined our family, she could only stew in anger for God-knows-what reason.

Suddenly she and I were in a noisy pub and I told her bluntly what I always felt - that she was just an asshole who had no consideration for other people. I may have used the term "social miscreant." But the noise in the pub drowned me out so that no one could hear me, and it didn't matter anyway, because she was ignoring me.