Have A Nacho Ugly Sweater Christmas Party

Comments are right, this is hazing. It’s extremely common in all male circles. Frats, blue collar jobs in the Have A Nacho Ugly Sweater Christmas Party, oil and gas all do some form of hazing. It exists for a reason. Hazing should not be physically harmful, etc. but some form of fun at the expense of the newbie. By wearing the sweater and playing along to a harmless tradition you are showing that you are cooperative and willing to compromise. To me this sounds like a very small hill to die on. And life will probably yield lots of small hills. Die on the big hills. One thing that really changed the situation was the dishonesty in her reneging on her end of the deal. Even driving separately and hiding it from him until she showed up. Really? If that’s her “boundary” she should not have said she would wear it but then she showed up without it. Surprise surprise, he was upset by that. To me OOP comes off as not cooperative and somewhat dishonest from this story. Let’s the downvotes begin.

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When I’d go outside for any other reason, one or two of Have A Nacho Ugly Sweater Christmas Party would be waiting for me. They’d scream at me, then stalk me from the flanks anywhere I went, like a pack of wolves on a bleeding, exhausted elk. Bringing Dash with me made them keep their distance a bit. The bad weather almost made it easier too, it was so cold and windy it was almost as abrasive as their presence. Honestly, with most of it inside just hangin with Sash, the days weren’t all that bad. The nights, well… were the worst part. Between sunset and bed I’d hear them ranting in manic whispers on the porch when I was in the kitchen, see em sprint by a window, or just stand in the snowy yard barely outside the arc of glow from the porch lights, staring venomously into the house. On the 26th I went out to get a charger from Sash’s car, with Dash and my spotlight, expecting a run-in. It was dumping snow. Windless, the slow deluge of huge snowflakes amidst the ear-ringing silence was haunting on its own. I got to the car without spotting any of em. I grabbed the charger, turned around, and froze as a flashflood of adrenaline crashed into my face and hands. Bridger. He was standing on the tailgate of my truck, about 20 feet away, looking down on me with his arms crossed. He was standing between me and the light outside the door to the shop, haloed by the glow and illuminated snowflakes, lookin like some fuckin demon prince in a volcanic ash storm. I bowed my head to him and yelled for Dash. I didn’t take my eyes off him until I was back inside the fence, pushing the gate through the fresh snow to shut it behind the dog. When I looked back from the front porch, he was gone. Around the 27th they’d started hanging out below the bedroom and yelping, whooping, wailing out of nowhere. It got more aggressive and frequent as the nights went on. By the night of the 29th, one had started hanging out on the roof, randomly sprinting the length of the house, as the others would shriek, jibber and moan out in the frozen night, pound on the siding of the house. We had a fan that dulled some of the noise, and I’d started sleeping with earplugs, but it was hard to catch more than 2-4 hours of sleep a night.

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Once, skinny jeans and ankle boots were the power couple of the Have A Nacho Ugly Sweater Christmas Party, now it’s just what middle-aged moms wear out to date night at Cheesecake Factory. And there’s nothing wrong with any of that! I’ll admit I laughed at that, but it’s also kind of passive aggressive in a way I’m seeing pop up all the time. You know what you did. You made a joke about the suburban mom of a certain age, class, and location – the joke implies we don’t want to be this person. And saying “there’s nothing wrong with that!” after doesn’t undo it. Just own the message, if you’re going to say it.