Family Blames Me for My Cousins Blowing Themselves up With Fireworks... But I Wasn’t Involved
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🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My entitled extended family is trying to blame me for my cousins blowing up some fireworks and as a result severely injuring their bodies. |
| 0:08.8 | And now even though I had nothing to do with any of their injuries, my family is expecting me to support them, |
| 0:14.6 | despite their bad attitudes and their dangerous activities. |
| 0:17.6 | Here's what happened. |
| 0:18.7 | Last year, my girlfriend and I decided to attend a family Christmas festivity despite more or less not really feeling like it, not to mention somewhat knowing better. |
| 0:27.4 | And this is family on my side by the way. |
| 0:29.5 | It was my late mother who insisted we should go because the family had organized a big party. |
| 0:34.4 | They would also provide dinner and she figured that this would be a fun distraction for us. |
| 0:39.0 | Also because we never really went out for dinner that entire year despite someone wanting to. |
| 0:43.7 | Now the event itself was more fun than I would have given it credit for. |
| 0:47.3 | We had some fun interactions with some cousins and some of their spouses and overall we |
| 0:51.7 | had a pretty good time well that is until |
| 0:53.9 | problem started during dinner during dinner during said dinner it got announced that |
| 0:57.5 | there would be a huge firework display at the end of the party all set up by three of |
| 1:01.9 | my cousins who I sometimes referred to as the firecrackers, |
| 1:05.6 | because they are obsessed with fireworks, and I'm not really a fan and I never have been. |
| 1:10.0 | Now, don't get me wrong. |
| 1:11.2 | There's nothing wrong with being passionate about something and sometimes taking things a bit too far. |
| 1:16.0 | As long as you keep things reasonable and at the very least mind others, then it should be fine. |
| 1:21.0 | But unfortunately, I don't think they do that. |
| 1:23.7 | You see, my cousin's hobby even made the local news a few times. |
| 1:27.6 | One of the headlines read the following. |
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