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Update Post made by: Redditor u/red_earaches
Original post by: Redditor u/billionsandbillionsa in r/Houston
::: spoiler Trigger Warnings potential discrimination, religious hypocrisy, MAGA :::
Recommendations for a Bad Time
May 22, 2026
I have my grandmother's baby sister visiting next week. She’s in her 60s, but in very good shape and active. I kind of low-key hate her. She’s always making comments about my weight and why I’m not married and a list of other negative things. I want to take her out to places where she’ll be the most uncomfortable and potentially won’t be visiting Houston for a long time. She’s voted a certain way and her husband wears a red hat.
She’s very uncomfortable around minority groups. Where can I take her to make her visit miserable???
OOP clarifies in comments: I don’t ever contact her on my own but she is family and my mom and her are very close. She’s not a terrible person I just don’t prefer to be in her company. She’s just is very critical of younger people and always tries to give unsolicited advice and backhanded compliments.
Relevant Comments
Commenters give a wide variety of places to take this great-aunt to, including:
speaksoftly: Breakfast Klub. You'll be in line for an hour, surrounded by black people enjoying themselves. (Breakfast Klub is known for its brunch soul food.)
cgreentx: Meow Wolf. Make sure you’re having an absolute blast and baffle them. They will be utterly confused and hate. (Meow Wolf is a radio station-theme immersive art experience that is known to be overstimulating.)
VanityJanitor: First, take her to the Houston farmers market. It’s a huge outdoor market with a bunch of spices, and it’s hella Mexican. Then stop at Gomez western wear so you can get her a true Texas outfit (also hella Mexican) before going jewelry shopping on Hillcroft Ave (Indian af).
And of course, stop at the Hong Kong food market before heading home. The penetrating fish smell and beautiful Asian culture is sure to put the nail in her maga coffin.
sashikku: Take her to Numbers (known for its alternative music venue and dance bar). Diverse environment, nowhere to sit, people dressed in anything from drag to BDSM gear.
Then take her to Boheme (known for its brunch drag shows).
Then take her to Menil Park (known for outside park and artwork). Also diverse crowd and it’s in the gayborhood.
ZaxZone: You can go visit the Donnellan Family Crypt under the Franklin Street Bridge. (It's a 19-century creepy crypt.)
ThisIsNotACryForHelp:* Aga's! The waitstaff are almost all immigrants, and if you go on Memorial Day, it will be so busy that you'll have to wait outside with all of the other customers (who are typically mostly brown people) in the Houston humidity.
As a bonus, the food is top notch. But since she's of the right-leaning persuasion, she probably won't allow herself to enjoy such "exotic" foods as tikka masala or chicken makhani.
**SoSleepySue:**I'll introduce her to my stepdad who doesn't like the parking spot I picked, the grocery cart I picked, the way I drive, the way I shop, or the way I clean out his downspouts.
UPDATE
2 Weeks Later
I’m so grateful for everyone who contributed to the post. I never expected it to blow up so quickly.
For those who are wondering about my situation I do live with my parents, so my great-aunt visiting wasn’t something that I wanted but my mom and her are very close and I can’t control who visits my parents. I did spend a majority of the time in my room when she was there. But we did end up doing some family activities together.
I did get a lot of request to take my family to a drag show which I thought would be a hilarious suggestion, but my parents are very hardcore Christian and they would never go for such a thing. So I did suggest it very enthusiastically but was shut down immediately by them. At first they knew I was joking but I kept trying to push it and they said that “that’s the kind of event the devil lives at”.
I mentioned to my great aunt that according to the Bible, we’re all the bride of Christ so technically her husband Phil ( who’s ironically her 2nd husband) should identify as the bride of Christ. Which it wouldn’t and shouldn’t be considered sinful for men to express themselves as feminine since we are all the “bride of Christ”. This pissed them off in a way that gives me joy. It was mainly my mom who was scolding me, but my great aunt kept telling me she would pray for me. I told her as long as she was willing to pray I would like to give her some more prayer requests and she agreed. I told her to pray for the Palestinian children in Gaza and she literally rolled her eyes at me.
Saturday, we ended up visiting the zoo. We went around 10:30am and the parking was completely packed. I ended up circling the parking lot for at least 20 minutes with no success. All while my mom and aunt were back seat driving. I also did follow a person to their spot and sat in the lane and waited for them to put their three children in the car only to have another more aggressive driver overtake me and take my parking spot that I literally waited 5 minutes for. I thought it was so funny but my mom got absolutely livid. She wanted to get out of the car to confront them but told her to sit back down and shouting at these people wouldn’t be very Christ-like. I ended up driving off and parked in a paid hospital parking lot across the street from the zoo. We had to walk a far distance to the entry of the zoo in the hot sun, which I thought would piss my great aunt off but she didn’t actually complain about it and it was me who was a sweaty mess by the time we entered the zoo.
For lunch, I thought it was the most appropriate to take them to Trill burger since it’s pretty close to the zoo and the idea of greasy burgers and fries served in a casual style atmosphere with rap music blasting was exactly what I was going for. Bonus points because when we parked our car there were literally 2 cars hot boxing just a few feet away from us and the strong odor of cannabis isn’t something my family enjoys. My great aunt complained the whole time and at one point said something to the effect of “these people don’t even know how to spell THRILL burger”. It was such an interesting experience seeing some people dressed extremely well in suits and ties and others literally in their pajamas all in the same restaurant. I kept quietly singing along and nodding my head to the rhythm of the rap music that was playing in the background while my mom and great aunt kind of looked uncomfortable but continued chatting to themselves.
Unfortunately they didn’t allow me to choose dinner and my mom explained to me “we’re trying to have a good time” and we ended up eating at Taste of Texas which is a little more their scene. The waitress actually took a photo of us and printed it out as a gift since it was my great aunt's first time and they wrapped a red bandanna around her and her husband was given a cowboy hat to take a picture with. My family had a great time there.
Sunday my family ended up going to church in the morning and I skipped out. But for a late dinner I kept telling them I was taking them to my favorite authentic BBQ spot. I took them straight to Chinatown and went to Gao's Kabob, which is still bbq but definitely not what they expected. For those who never been there, it’s full of drunk Chinese people loudly singing Chinese love songs on a karaoke machine on a stage which is definitely not their scene. I ordered a bunch of pig feet and lamb skewers as well as spicy noodles. This definitely wasn’t what they were expecting and it didn’t seem like they ate much but they didn’t complain about it as much as Trill Burger. My mom kept saying we should have went to Treebeards.
Overall my great aunt actually kept an open mind about the places I took her and it was my mom who was the one who did the majority of the complaining. My great aunt told me she had a great time and is looking forward to me visiting her in Florida. I probably won’t be visiting anytime soon though.
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!!! I love Houston!!
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