Incestuous Discovery With A Side Of Potato Salad

My user name, "Shallowgenepool" is a cautionary tale about the unknown horrors that are sometimes revealed at family gatherings. Case in point, at a family barbeque several years ago I overheard my mom talking to my aunt about how two of our relatives were first cousins and married. Before this conversation, I had often noted with tragic honesty how our family is trailer trash. In fact, we aren't the respectable live in a nice trailer park with functional sewer system triple wide trailer trailer trash, far from it. We're the ancient single wide that leans to starboard, located in a trailer park with a questionable sceptic system, most likely to operate as a side hustle meth lab, tailer trash.

Upon gaining this genealogical tidbit I announced over burgers and hotdogs that I will no longer tolerate being chastised for calling our family trailer trash. Being related to married first cousins I argued, made me uniquely and fully qualified to call us trailer trash. From that day forward I always said anyone who would marry into our family was dangerously diving into a very shallow gene pool.