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Santa, Here’s What I DON’T Want for Christmas.
13 things I can do without.
2 min readDec 25, 2020
Santa, you don’t have to fly to my house this year.
I’m going to make it really easy. I would like certain absences. Please just remove certain things from my life. I don’t need any more.
Here is what I don’t want for Christmas:
- Another Kevin Spacey monologue. You can go ahead and undo that.
- My student loan interest. I am not interested.
- My relatives to ask me when I’m coming to visit. I don’t want another conversation about, oh right, there’s a pandemic going on.
- Any more news about Trump. We can just quietly transition. I don’t want to hear about Tweets or Fox interviews or whatever fake network he’s pressing now.
- Messages from men who “usually date white girls” but “thought you were pretty.”
- Phone calls from anyone I owe money to.
- Phone calls from people I don’t owe money to, but are trying to scare me. I don’t have a car. How can my warranty be expiring?
- Whatever expired coupon the federal government is going to call a “stimulus” and mail to me. Actually, you know what, I will take whatever it ends up being.
- Another Russia hack. Didn’t this just happen? Lazy writing for the end of 2020. Recycling plot lines worse than the Jurassic Park franchise.