Cringe & Facepalm

My dad and I were making plans to do something for my sister's graduation. I texted him we can sit down and discuss the specifics later that evening and that I will be at his house after work around 6.

Between 4:30-5:30 I received 5 calls every 10 minutes or so asking why I made a commitment to meet at 4 and never showed up. And to not bother showing up anymore and that he would do all the planning himself. I finally showed up to his house at 6:00 and showed him the text messages which he replied okay to that we agreed to 6. His response "this is why I hate texting, when everything is clear and documented there's no point in trying to argue who is wrong or who is right". I told him with the truth being documented there is no point in arguing because it is evidently clear who is right and who is wrong. He told me to get out of his face and go home.

Visiting my Boomer parents recently, I discovered a new way to shut down their typical rants - excitedly agree with them, assume control of the conversation, and then say something equally absurd that is in the same context.

Some examples from my recent visit:

"Can you believe 'millenials' aren't being taught cursive or how to read clocks in school? They aren't going to know anything when they graduate"

"I know! I knew this country was going to hell when they stopped teaching them how to count on an abacus or how to balance the humors by draining blood. How will they survive without this knowledge??"

"I refuse to get vaccinated for Covid. I'm not putting that junk in my body. It's killed too many people."

"I completely agree! I heard Joe Biden is intentionally spiking Covid vaccines with Roundup week killer that's been prayed over by Satanic priests, just for the laughs. Terrible!"

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Of course, they caught on and got a little pissy, and I pulled the old "but I'm just agreeing with you" act, but it stopped the stupid rants on day one of my visit.

My town has a festival that happens yearly full of interesting crafty booths, food, music, etc. I’m 16 and so I had a budget of 25$ at this festival, mostly because I only planned to get a snack and maybe a small piece of jewelry. I stopped to look at this henna stand, the lady asks me if I’m ready and I say no, I’m just looking. Then she starts showering me with compliments about my body and says “you have such beautiful hands, here is what I would do.” Before I can even process, this woman starts drawing the henna on me. I never consent or say what design I even want, she just does it all of a sudden. Then she says “ok, that’s 25$.” I’m 16 and new to the world so obviously I was too baffled to start a fight with this lady in front of a crowd, but it is so lame to take advantage of a teen for money.

TLDR; lady did henna on me without asking and then charged me my whole festival budget.

And that’s pretty much it. My husband’s father wants to be “honored” in a special way at our child’s “woke” Bluey birthday party or else he isn’t planning on showing up.

His presence won’t be missed (it’s a child’s party filled with kids), but the demand for this special treatment is laughable.

He’s full MAGA/Trump/Fox all day, every day, only dumbass libs wear masks, etc.

Talk about a participation trophy 🏆👏

Born in 1950 and it shows 😮‍💨