Please stop texting Happy Thanksgiving to your friends

[Anonymous]

I’m the OP.

This is such a weird holiday to do the Happy holiday text for. I’m not saying Thanksgiving is not a real holiday, but it just has a different vibe than the other ones I mentioned. Pilgrims, indigenous people, all the twisted history with that. It’s weird to call it Happy when tribes were decimated, raped, diseased and forced off their land, after being the ones to show the settlers how to survive in this new place. The irony is tragic. But yeah, let’s just pretend none of that happened and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Okay.

Plus with Christmas around the corner, do you really need to text me the happy holiday greetings twice, back to back? No, just send the one at Christmas or New Years and be done with it, especially if we don’t really talk to each other otherwise.

You may think my post is cruel but I’m just trying to save you some energy. I am thankful for my friendships too but I don’t feel the need to text my friends that thought. I show them with my actions when I actually spend time with them and talk to them. A happy holiday text doesn’t mean sh!t.

[Anonymous]

Happy Thanksgiving, OP!

Thankful for you because you remind me I am not actually the crankiest person on the planet.

[Anonymous]

You sound depressed, OP, and I’m right there with you. Big hugs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP.

This is such a weird holiday to do the Happy holiday text for. I’m not saying Thanksgiving is not a real holiday, but it just has a different vibe than the other ones I mentioned. Pilgrims, indigenous people, all the twisted history with that. It’s weird to call it Happy when tribes were decimated, raped, diseased and forced off their land, after being the ones to show the settlers how to survive in this new place. The irony is tragic. But yeah, let’s just pretend none of that happened and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Okay.

Plus with Christmas around the corner, do you really need to text me the happy holiday greetings twice, back to back? No, just send the one at Christmas or New Years and be done with it, especially if we don’t really talk to each other otherwise.

You may think my post is cruel but I’m just trying to save you some energy. I am thankful for my friendships too but I don’t feel the need to text my friends that thought. I show them with my actions when I actually spend time with them and talk to them. A happy holiday text doesn’t mean sh!t.

LOL. This about trying to save ME some energy? GTFO. Why don't you text me and tell me directly that you don't want a Thanksgiving text? Then I know to cut you out of my life, which will be the real energy save.

[Anonymous]

Op, I think my friends heard you, lol
I am getting only three so far vs ten last year.
Thanks for nothing~

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You sound depressed, OP, and I’m right there with you. Big hugs

Lol I’m actually not depressed at all. And I’m grateful for the fabulous life I have and the people in it, and they all know it without me having to send them a lame happy holiday text.

I’m looking forward to the time with my family today and delicious food. And no work! But I will not be sending any of my friends a useless happy holiday text, bc it’s just lame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, I think my friends heard you, lol
I am getting only three so far vs ten last year.
Thanks for nothing~

Why is it important to you that they send you this text?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP.

This is such a weird holiday to do the Happy holiday text for. I’m not saying Thanksgiving is not a real holiday, but it just has a different vibe than the other ones I mentioned. Pilgrims, indigenous people, all the twisted history with that. It’s weird to call it Happy when tribes were decimated, raped, diseased and forced off their land, after being the ones to show the settlers how to survive in this new place. The irony is tragic. But yeah, let’s just pretend none of that happened and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Okay.

Plus with Christmas around the corner, do you really need to text me the happy holiday greetings twice, back to back? No, just send the one at Christmas or New Years and be done with it, especially if we don’t really talk to each other otherwise.

You may think my post is cruel but I’m just trying to save you some energy. I am thankful for my friendships too but I don’t feel the need to text my friends that thought. I show them with my actions when I actually spend time with them and talk to them. A happy holiday text doesn’t mean sh!t.

LOL. This about trying to save ME some energy? GTFO. Why don't you text me and tell me directly that you don't want a Thanksgiving text? Then I know to cut you out of my life, which will be the real energy save.

This is a good point.

OP, why don’t you text your friends your reaction to their good wishes? That would actually save them the energy, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Merry Christmas, I can understand.
Happy Mother’s Day, okay.
Happy New Years, sure.

But Thanksgiving?? I don’t need your Happy Thanksgiving text, it’s annoying.

Also if I never see you or talk to you on the phone, but you only text me on holidays, please stop. Just let it go.

Are you the same person that hates "save the dates"? If not you guys should connect, you have a lot in common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound depressed, OP, and I’m right there with you. Big hugs

Lol I’m actually not depressed at all. And I’m grateful for the fabulous life I have and the people in it, and they all know it without me having to send them a lame happy holiday text.

I’m looking forward to the time with my family today and delicious food. And no work! But I will not be sending any of my friends a useless happy holiday text, bc it’s just lame.

Why don’t you send them all a text over the weekend to let them know they should not bother sending you holiday texts anymore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Merry Christmas, I can understand.
Happy Mother’s Day, okay.
Happy New Years, sure.

But Thanksgiving?? I don’t need your Happy Thanksgiving text, it’s annoying.

Also if I never see you or talk to you on the phone, but you only text me on holidays, please stop. Just let it go.

I like the texts. Sometimes in them I hear from old friends or coworkers I have not heard from in years, feels special to be thought of.

[Anonymous]

Scrooge, go away, this is not your holiday!! Have the decency to wait until the weekend is over before unfurling your "bah humbug!"

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Merry Christmas, I can understand.
Happy Mother’s Day, okay.
Happy New Years, sure.

But Thanksgiving?? I don’t need your Happy Thanksgiving text, it’s annoying.

Also if I never see you or talk to you on the phone, but you only text me on holidays, please stop. Just let it go.

I like the texts. Sometimes in them I hear from old friends or coworkers I have not heard from in years, feels special to be thought of.

I like them, too.

[Anonymous]

I will get a jump on the next holiday.

Bah humbug!