Never not trueđ
Am i doing this right?
babe are you okay you didnât even post a single meme connecting the latest internationally relevant political event to dead cw show supernatural
Peter: Ugh i need pizza
Tony: I know a great pizza place
Tony: [Takes peter to Rome]
My family is not very religious most of the time. Â We pray at Christmas and Easter and Thanksgiving dinners, and my momâs entire side of the family excluding her parents and siblings is hardcore religious so whenever we do anything with them itâs kind of religious.
But the point is, most of the time we arenât, but every year at Christmas time, a church in the next town over puts on a Bethlehem and itâs kind of a tradition to go. Â They go all out. Â The building is massive, and theyâve got it all decked out. Â Thereâs animals and stalls and everyone is in costume and in character. Â When you get there, they give you some pennies and you can go and barter for cool little trinkets, and thereâs other more expensive things you can buy with your own money. Â And they have the best apple cider. Â All in all, itâs pretty cool.
But anyway. Â We go every year, bundled up in hats and scarves and mittens, and have a good time. Â Weâve been doing it for as long as I can remember, and my mom talks about going when she was a kid.
Iâm going to mention again that everyone is massively in character, especially the really super hardcore religious adults. Â Because this is an important fact.
Every year since I was about thirteen or so, thereâs been this one lady who worked at a stall selling ponchos (I have, like, three. Â Theyâre really cool). Â She was probably there before that, but I was thirteen when she started trying to barter for me to marry her son, who was also about thirteen.
âWhat a pretty little thing. Â I think youâd make a very good wife for my son. Â These are your parents? Â Iâll give you six goats for your daughterâs marriage to my son.â
Her son, meanwhile, is in the âshopâ behind her looking absolutely mortified and like heâd rather be anywhere else than there, and Iâm pretty sure I probably looked just as embarrassed.
My parents gave her some sort of excuse, like it wasnât enough goats or they werenât ready to marry me off yet or something, and we moved on.
The next year weâre back again, and come up near to the same stall.
âAh! Â Youâre back again! Â Have you married your daughter off yet? Â I can up my offer to nine goats and three chickens for your daughter to marry my son.â
Somehow she remembered the exact people sheâd tried to buy their daughter off of for an entire year? Â So my parents are refusing her offers again and me and the son are trading embarrassed looks and we go on our way.
And then it happens again. Â And again. Â And again. Â Each and every one of the last six years this lady has tried to buy me in goats to be her sonâs wife.Â
 A couple years ago when we were waiting in line to get inside my mom jokingly said that they should accept this year and see what sheâd do and I completely refused because it was mortifying enough as it was.
One year we brought my friend with us and weâre waiting outside and my sister was like âAre you gonna sell Kee this year?â and my dad was like âMaybe if thereâs enough goatsâ and my friend was confused as heck and I was like âThis lady tries to buy me to marry her son every year.  I told you thatâ and sheâs like âYeah but I didnât think this was a thing that actually happenedâ and she was still skeptical and by the time my parents had finished refusing the ladyâs offer, sheâs killing herself laughing and then spent the next few months telling me I couldnât look at guys because I already had a fiancĂ©e.
Anyway, it happened again this Christmas and the son has somehow gotten almost ridiculously attractive since last year. Â The speech this year had something to do with how I was far too old to not have a husband yet, and the son and I just rolled our eyes at each other as his mom tried to barter with my parents for me.
This yearâs offer was twenty six goats and nine chickens. Â My sister looked up how much goats are worth, and was mad our parents didnât sell me so she could have sold the goats and gotten $2000-$8000 for them. Â My dad says theyâre waiting out on an offer of a camel. Â My brother thinks they should have it more than once a year so he can get more apple cider.
Now Iâm back at uni, and in my first psych class of the semester the guy sitting beside me looked really familiar. Â
As in his-mom-tries-to-buy-me-with-goats-every-Christmas familiar.
That kind of familiar.
We introduced ourselves before class started and I sat there for a couple minutes readying to make a total fool of myself in case I was wrong before turning to him again.
âThis is going to sound really weird if you arenât who I think you are, but by any chance does your mom try to buy you a wife with goats every Christmas?â
His friend gives me a weird look as he walks past me to sit on the other side of him, but heâs definitely putting the pieces together.
âThatâs you? Â Bethlehem in [city name], right? Â God, my mom is so mortifying.â
And we both kinda laugh and meanwhile his friend is giving us both weird looks now because apparently he didnât know that his friendâs mom was trying to buy him a wife using livestock.
So he turns to his friend and is like
âOh, I forgot to introduce you.  Danny, this is my fiancĂ©e, Kee.â
And I kinda rolled my eyes and was like
âIâm not actually your fiancĂ©e.  Your mom hasnât offered my parents enough goats yet.  But apparently my dad will sell me for a camel.â
And he laughed and shook his head like
âI am not telling my mom that. Â I donât want to see what she has planned for if your parents ever accept.â
So yeah. Â His friend was really confused by that point and we explained it to him and it turns out heâs pretty cool and weâre Facebook friends now and hang out in psych classes. Â Apparently his mom only ever tries to buy me for him and she and my mom had gone to the same church growing up which is why she can always pick us out.
So yeah. Â Thatâs the story of how some lady tries to use goats to buy me to be her ridiculously attractive sonâs wife every Christmas, and how heâs in my class and weâre friends now.
If red and blue makes purple... does that mean cherry and blue raspberry makes grape?
Sherlock and Moriarty
Corona is still rising, BLM is fading for some because it was a trend but we are trying our best to fight for the lives taken. Um...weâre fucked because no matter who gets voted for president itâs gonna be bad
Are you guys okay? Whatâs happening? Iâm Australian and not hearing much of anything thatâs going on over there. Not as much as Iâd like anyway. Howâs corona? BLM? Is there anything else I should know about or that you want to tell me? Voting season is November right? The fuck is happening with that?
I donât know what is happening in my life anymore and I want to know if there are others that feel the same. But everyday is the same and everyday I yearn more and more for some sort of shift into a fictional world or some feeling...but Iâm stuck crying over my comfort characters, feeling absolutely helpless. How do I live in the moment? How do I feel something?
My mom doesn't like Tony so thank all of you. Now I can show her this
People really making posts about Thor hating Tony when we all know Thor is literally incapable of disliking anyone smh
Hello!!! Feel free to message me. I'm 21 and a student. Iâm into basically everything. Current obsession: stray kids
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