Fandangos One Word Challenge ” Transgression ” has inspired me to create a series of posts with one theme- My Letters To Krampus- ho ho ho!
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Christmas isn’t exactly my favorite time of the year now, so in the hopes of not ending up on Krampus’ bad side ( does he have a good side? I wonder ) I am writing to him to plead my case- that maybe I’m not a total Christmas Spoiler and don’t deserve a budle of sticks for Christmas
My first effort is: I heard the worst Christmas Story Today
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Dear Krampus,
She told me a story about her family.
She told me that she has two nieces and that every year she wishes she could see them for Christmas but she can’t- it’s not like she couldn’t just drive over and say ” ho ho ho ” and give then gift cards to Starbucks.
She just can’t bring herself to, as she put it, ” perform the ritual “.
She told me that one of her nieces was born with a debilitating disease that ran in her Sister-In- Laws family and had her Sister-in- Law not been selfish and wanted a baby, her niece wouldn’t have to have such a challenging life.
Her other niece, she told me, was as vain and vapid as her Mother and that in her niece’s entire life she had never seen her with a book in her hand.
Her vain and vapid niece was gorgeous though and to prove it she showed me a picture of her niece. As she gazed down at her phone into her nieces image, I saw true love.
I got the feeling that in Her mind this image of a you woman making duck lips at the camera made up for her niece’s lack of intellectual curiosity and that spelled out the hint that being vain and vapid was a trait that ran on both sides of the family.
I told her I had three nieces and that they were all finding their way in the world- including my niece with Autism and they were doing their best to find their way through the world.
She winked at me and said, ” of course they are “.
I wanted to reach out and jab my finger into her stupid overly made up eye.
That year like every year I see my nieces at Christmas and that sometimes I see them with books in their hands and sometimes they wear alot of makeup and sometimes they tell great stories and jokes and other times I wonder how such unique and stunning creatures could be related to me.
I know I am lacking in the Christmas Spirit Krampus, but on this day I didn’t tear someone’s eye out their head and I told a nice Christmas story about my family,
AMM