Let me preface this by saying I'm kind of a dick because I am happy to speak my mind. My Mum raised me so that I felt I had something to say that I'd say it and that I don't tend to acquiesce out of the need appear 'polite'.
Anyways, so, this was a few weeks back. I was at an airport waiting around in a seat for the plane to get there so we could board, some old woman and her presumably grandson decided to plop down behind me on this weird little circular thing seating arrangement. Kid is like 7 or 8 and he's being a general shit. Making a lot of noise so on and so forth. Which, granted y'know it's a kid, he's complaining about the food they got to eat or some bullshit. I try my best to tu
So I've been VLC with my nDad, who I like to call Fatman because he's overweight as fuck and is about as loud as the nuclear warhead's detonation was, decided to send me a "holiday care package" because he likes to pretend that he still has a decent relationship with me.
So I open it up; haven't seen him in person in like two years, and inside this box is: a bar of soap, a bottle of toothpaste, a toothbrush, two shirts that aren't my size, a set of ratchets and a Christmas card with some cash in it and a picture that must have been left at the childhood home that I had had of one of my and one of my brother's friends.
So first off what the fuck? Like does he think I just don't buy toiletri
Maybe it's just me but after two decades of 'Holiday time' being a clusterfuck of dealing with nDad, his awful family, and then having my first/only real relationship (with a rather emotionally abusive individually which is no surprise given how damaged I felt and was due how I was "raised" or lack thereof) start [and end many years later] around Christmas time [the end of November through early January] has always put me in a particularly sour mood.
Christmas music in particular makes me want to buy a punching bag, it always somehow manages to get under my skin due my brain associating it with bad times.
Anyone else chronically put in a worse mood or stressed more than usual around this