Refreshing that they don’t even pretend to be disappointed. So much of the stress of the holidays stems from thinking that you have to spend time with people that you’d just as soon not see, merely because you have chromosomes in common, or through marriage. If you don’t care for their company at any other time of year, rest assured that that doesn’t change just because the calendar says November and December. Of course you’re not supposed to say that or even think it, because Nothing Is More Important Than Family, but somebody has to be the heretic.
Refreshing that they don’t even pretend to be disappointed. So much of the stress of the holidays stems from thinking that you have to spend time with people that you’d just as soon not see, merely because you have chromosomes in common, or through marriage. If you don’t care for their company at any other time of year, rest assured that that doesn’t change just because the calendar says November and December. Of course you’re not supposed to say that or even think it, because Nothing Is More Important Than Family, but somebody has to be the heretic.