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~~~~~ Dude, I panicked!!! Initially this was going to be a Thanksgiving post, but every time I do that, the OP is followed by remarks of killing turkeys...either on the board or face to face. So I tried to improvise. ~A couple of years ago, you couldn't say "Happy Holidays". ~When I first started posting on DGN, I accidently posted "Merry Christmas"...I am sorry, but I still do not completely understand certain regional "humor" and the responses to that thread shook me a bit. ~A few years back, I said "Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays" to a female White receptionist at an appointment. She looked at Trene and I with a shocked expression on her face and said, "Don't you do that Kwanza?" (I have no idea what Kwanzaa is supposed to celebrate, but apparently, it's for Black people?) ~I was out shopping at the mall on December 2nd this year and said "Happy Holidays" to the cashier as I was leaving DICK's. She looked like she could chew nails then said "You too". Needless to say, after my entire life, I am now cautious of acknowledging any holiday that comes after Halloween because you can do and say just about anything you want and dress anyway you like during October and people just laugh at how shocked and caught off guard they were. People expect to be scared or to see something "interesting" whether they celebrate Halloween or not. Given that my family was separated by states, countries and continents, because literally one half of it is Military, any holiday celebration and birthday, when we could come together, was special. And it was generally like that for the community where we grew up and the schools we attended in our area. Needless to say, I had a very rude awakening when I started University life in my mid-twenties. It's like everyone was entitled to their own opinion as long as you accepted, and did not contradict, the opinion of the loudest person who was cursing any and everything that had to do with holidays, social gatherings and religion. I learned to shut the "F" up as I had been told. Decades later, DGN is the first place I actually posted anything regarding holidays, but here, I've learned to brace for it. 😏

Note: Contrary to what may be believed, I created "Board Domination Week" a few weeks after joining DGN, July of 2012, as my own personal way of interacting with the forum and members. This was not created to make anyone feel inferior or to cause upset. I am just a forum hog who truly appreciates posting on DGN. My apologies to anyone whose feelings may have been hurt do to any misunderstandings. ...and no, I did not create DGN. DGN Founder Troy Spiral

~~~~~ That's why I exist outside of it. All I ever hear is "Nobody does ______" and all I can think is, "But I do that". So apparently I'm Nobody and thereby do not exist in this reality. Therefore, I create my own...and live by it.