3. Why are you on Reddit hiding from your family right now?

Why are you on Reddit hiding from your family right now?

That was the plan... then on the 23rd the family begged for pies from scratch. I was like, ok... (There was this huuuuuge amount of pressure. Another family member, my sister, was hosting this in her new house, hosting for her in-laws' gigantic family for the first time, 25 ppl, and she wanted my help doing everything they wanted and she was desperate. It meant a lot to her). Then they begged for crusts from scratch too. ok... that's a huge amount of work but ok... Then the "low inflammatory" diet person wanted their very own weird crust (this basically doubles the workload cause it's a whole different recipe and you have to scrape all the wheat flour off the worksurface and start all over). I'm like, OKAY OKAY. (actually my mom jumped in here and did the weird crust)

Then the sis-in-law wanted 2 more crusts to make pies of her own. I'm like, (secretly fuck you) but ok, but, I'm gonna have to roll them out for you and the only time that can be done is 9pm Christmas Eve, definitely not anytime Christmas Day, because it takes over the whole counter and that counter is needed for turkey & ham prep on xmas day. Then she doesn't get her pies made and all the good pie pans of course get used up w/ other pies and all that's left are the 2 crappy little foil ones and she's all sad and all, WHY DON'T MY PIES GET GOOD PIE PANS and I'm all, I will go get you 2 nice big pie pans. Special run to Target, I buy them, big nice glass ones. (I'd already bought 6 on the previous run)

She's like, cool. She disappears. She goes to some other relative's house for the noght.

She reappears at ONE-THIRTY IN THE MORNING saying, I kid you not,"Can you help me with those crusts?" I'm like, (paste fake smile on), jesus fuck no, I'm going to bed. Next day (xmas) she saunters into the kitchen at noon all "where ma crusts at? I'm making my pies now" (we already had EIGHT PIES and the counter is TOTALLY COVERED w turkeys and hams and 8 side dishes and shit, and the sink has clogged and the toilet's backed up), my sister gives me this desperate pleading look, so I roll out the damn fucking crusts.

It was about 15 min after that that I snapped.

Surprise surprise, we still have 2 pies left over....

This was all to help my sister. I don't give a damn about the in-laws myself, but my sister really wanted to make them all happy so I was pitching in for my sister. Also I knew if I didn't, if I went all "STORE PIES, SUCKERS" on them, my 81yo mom would step in and work herself into the ground trying to help my sister, and my mom's got a bad back and shouldn't be working. So this was one of those, sacrifice yourself to try to shield other family members things, so I flung myself on the pie sword.

In the end it was my poor mom that I snapped at. I was holding it together for the in-laws and then snapped at my mom. :(

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