Today I Learned there is a difference between Vietnamese Mint and “Persian” Mint. I add the quotations around Persian because any mint besides Vietnamese Mint is Persian Mint.

This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for lots of food, a non-yelling family, and an awesome laptop that I can play badass games on like Missile Command Classic and Spelunky.

So, this Thanksgiving, this is what happened:

45 minute conversation about flights and how customer service is hilarious in the airlines.

Mom (works for airlines): “So then this FBI agent told me that he needed to speak to somebody on the plane. I told him he wasn’t allowed to. He said ‘Don’t you know that I’m FBI?!’, but I told him again that he couldn’t. He threatened me saying ‘I will have your job!’. I told him he was welcome to it.”

30 minute conversation about children getting molested and general bad parenting.


Mom: “Kids shouldn’t go to daycare!”
Aunt: “What?! No! They should!”
(My aunt runs a daycare)

Mom: “I would NEVER allow my kids to be on leashes!”
My Sister: “We had leashes that we never wore…”
Mom: “That was your damn grandmother.”

Azade: “You know Chris is a twin. His mother had to deal with two of them running around.”
Aunt: “But you two look so different that you couldn’t cheat in school, could you?”


Me (jokingly): “You should get the accidental plan warranty. Just hit it with a baseball bat and call it an accident. You can say it was a burglar. It’s black.”
Mom: “Was that morally right?”
Me: “To assume the burglar was black? Or to break a computer to get a new one because of the warranty?”
Mom: glare
Me: “It was the warranty comment, wasn’t it?”
Mom: “What is wrong with you?”
Sister: “It was the warranty comment.”

Expect more.