Most of my household lives in the identical city as me. My mother and father reside 5 (4 if site visitors is sweet) hours away. The plan this 12 months was for thanksgiving to occur within the city most of us reside in. As a result of I wouldn’t should journey, I signed up for a piece undertaking for finish of November as a result of more money by no means hurts (usually I’m furloughed throughout this time). Two weeks in the past, I came upon that everybody else had modified the plan a month in the past and everyone seems to be now going to journey to the place my mother and father reside. By the point they informed me (which solely occurred by chance, in any other case I wouldn’t have came upon till just a few days in the past), it was far too late for me to again out of the work undertaking (and too late to get a pet sitter).
So I informed them sorry, I can’t come as a result of I’ve to work this week and the day after thanksgiving. And thus began two weeks of blackmail, emotional BS, scolding, and a litany of explanation why my job isn’t necessary sufficient to skip thanksgiving, together with each conceivable technique they might discover to get me to go to. They’re “dissatisfied” in me for staying residence. I must take off work early Wednesday to make the drive, then drive again Thursday afternoon if I used to be going. I believed the group exercise might be compromise as a result of everybody had been speaking about doing one thing like that for years. Positive, I’d be worn out from driving and it might make work the subsequent day hellish, however it might be price it to maintain the peace. However form of pointless if nobody else might be there so I mentioned sorry, appears prefer it received’t work out.
So no, I didn’t begin Machiavellian manipulation. I attempted to discover a approach, regardless of a bunch of different explanation why me touring to my mother and father is a nasty thought. Nevertheless it simply isn’t going to work.
No cause is sweet sufficient for my household as a result of they’re bananapants. They modified plans, didn’t even inform me they had been contemplating it, after which sat on the modified plans information for weeks till it was too late for me to regulate, however I’m the unhealthy man. I haven’t even heard from anybody since Monday.
I posted about this earlier however I understand not everybody would have seen it. I used to be making an attempt to keep away from a protracted backstory about why I typically hate thanksgiving as a result of it’s like this each time.