Thursday, November 24, 2005 Thank me, Timmy? Thank you!
This year I didn't go see my family on Thanksgiving, even though they wanted me to come down and to bring Tracy. My sister wasn't going, so I decided I didn't have to either, so my parents are shivering and alone, eating beans out of can tonight. It's really awful to be me.
Every year, they talk about how we aren't holiday people, and that an arbitrary day on the calendar doesn't mean anything, and how we are bigger than the whims of retailers. They act weirded out if I buy them Christmas presents. They vow that no member of our family will ever travel on a holiday or holiday weekend ever again.
Then they're like, "But, aren't you coming to celebrate this dumb made-up holiday that we don't care about anyway with us?"
One day we will meet on a completely neutral Tuesday in January or something, and we will have a pleasant lunch at a non-threatening restaurant. This is our rich cultural tradition. posted by Frenzy Lohan | 11/24/2005 10:19:00 PM
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