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Loners

MadrasT

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2. Ignore them all!

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2012, 08:39 PM

Oct 2012

Except Memorial Day. Lots of vets in my family so I go on cemetary visitations. Not exactly "celebration" like most people think of for holidays.

And my birthday I always take a vacation day and do whatever I want all day.

Holidays mean visiting people. As if.

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Birthdays/holidays...celebrate them or ignore them? [View all] dixiegrrrrl Oct 2012 OP

I pretty much ignore them. rrneck Oct 2012 #1

Ignore them all! MadrasT Oct 2012 #2

Downplay. LWolf Oct 2012 #3

Ideal times to go where everybody isn't. bemildred Oct 2012 #4

"go clump with "..... I like that phrase. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2012 #5

Well yeah, loner is not all all the same thing as anti-social. bemildred Oct 2012 #6

I'd offer to work for the answering service on any holiday. no_hypocrisy Oct 2012 #7

Yeah, there is that, indeed. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2012 #8

For a long while I'd not work on my birthday so I wouldn't have to 'report' or jp11 Nov 2012 #9

I work for a security company , we don't take holidays off. Trunk Monkey Nov 2012 #10

Same here.... SCALA13 Nov 2012 #11

How nice to hear I am "not the only one". dixiegrrrrl Nov 2012 #12

you got that present with a huge beautiful bow on it. Whisp Nov 2012 #14

pretty well the same for me now. Whisp Nov 2012 #13