Don't Take Me Seriously - Book - Page 187
More stress in stockings
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ow, if your mother-in-law is getting out of prison this Dec. 23 and,
of course, coming to live with you
at this time, you’d have to consider this
momentous event to be additional holiday stress. As if Christmas shopping, seasonal dining, too many commitments and
general life-in-a-pressure-cooker weren’t
enough, now you have to deal with a freeloading misanthrope who, you know, deserved her sentence and who, you are
sure, has not been rehabilitated.
But, as you are loading the family safe
with all the loose jewelry, fine porcelain figurines and catnip, you take some
comfort in knowing this extra stress was
forced upon you. You didn’t willingly invite it. (Well, you did marry a woman you
met while she was hitchhiking to visit her
mom in the joint.)
However, there are those of you out
there – and you know who we are – who
have deliberately thrown open your arms
to unnecessary anxiety during the holi-
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DON’T TAKE ME SERIOUSLY
day season.
Maybe you scheduled your participation in six seasonal gatherings between
Dec. 24 and 25, with only a few hundred
miles separating each of them.
In this, you might be considered adorably foolish.
Maybe you quit your job so you could
enjoy the kids’ Christmas vacation with
them.
In this, you should be considered a lovSee STRESS, A8
