Special Occasions

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Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed

My family only gets together on special occasions, such as Christmas. My grandparents house will usually fill with all my family members, talking and having fun, opening presents, playing games, eating lots of food, while celebrating Christmas. Even though this might sound like fun, trust me, it most certainly is not, or at least for me.

The political careers of nearly all my male family members don’t interest me at all, but this is all they ever talk about. I understand it’s their job, but at least on Christmas, they could talk about something else. There are my cousins around, with who I can talk, and even though I don’t have a lot of things in common with them, and they’re younger than me, it does mean I don’t have to listen to my relatives’ conversations, so it’s great.

Considering the big age difference between me and my cousins, it’s not a big surprise that I ran out of things to talk to them about, and the Christmas movies that were on TV didn’t interest me. Luckily, I remembered a Christmas present that I hadn’t really used, and was just sitting in my drawer.

It was a iriver h10 player, and it was a real life saver. Their conversations just faded away, and I was hearing nothing but my music. My parents were really upset with me, and kept constantly reminding me how rude I was, listening to music all of the time, but I was fine with it. Christmas became much more fun, after discovering my rarely-used present.

When I was old enough to move out from my parents house, I did it, but I still kept my player, and whenever Christmas came, I’d listen to it again. It was probably one of the best Christmas presents I’ve ever received.

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