Sure, tis the season!
We’re smack dab in the midst of money seize season.
That point of yr if you hear from household & pals you by no means knew you had.
Graduations. Weddings. Showers.
Wherever cake is being served–you’re invited and anticipated to carry a present (Money largely).
We get grad bulletins from children I don’t even know.
Her: “He’s Nathan’s step-son’s brother.”
Me: “However….who’s Nathan?”
We had been despatched a commencement invite from a woman I haven’t seen since she was five-years-old.
Me: “So Kayla, are you continue to into ‘My Little Pony’?”
There appears to be bridal showers galore. Extra like bridal downpours!
Me: “Who’s she?”
Her: “Bear in mind Katherine? She accidently butt-dialed us throughout dinner one time?”
Me: “Oh, that narrows it.”
As Jerry Seinfeld would say…”Who ARE these individuals?”
They appear to return out of the woodwork this time of yr.
I obtained R.S.V. from the entire R.S.V.P. ing!
It’s nonstop I inform ya!
I’m nonetheless lined in glitter from invitations we obtained in 2020.
Me: “Seth is graduating? Who’s he once more?”
Her: “He was the child working at Cosco who helped us get the bathroom paper from up excessive.”
Me: “Oh.”
The invites swarm this time of yr like flies to potato salad.
Her: “She is your cousin’s soon-to-be daughter-in-law.”
“He’s my boss’ brother’s alternate scholar.”
“She is marrying our neighbor’s parole officer.”
“Our Uber driver in Cleveland? He & his spouse had a child.”
Me: (Head explodes)
When does it finish? My cash printing press is operating low on ink.
I shake it off by realizing it’s higher they keep in mind us now-than in no way. Believing that we made an impression. We touched their lives. We helped them change into who they’re as a person.
Eh, who am I kidding. They simply need the money.
