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AIBU?

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EbenKneesZer · 24/12/2021 21:17

For background, I’ve been single since my youth and since my last relationship ended I’ve dedicated myself to my business. Over the years, thanks to my hard work, its become really successful and I’ve become very wealthy. I did have a business partner but he died last year. Since then I’ve run the business alone.

I’ll be honest, I don’t have a very positive view of other people. I think most of them are malingerers who don’t work hard enough. Even my clerk asked for Christmas Day off, which I’ve permitted but docked his pay. I don’t celebrate Christmas myself and think it’s just an excuse for people to slack of work. My nephew always invites me round but I decline, rudely.

I got home from the office at about 9pm this evening. As I opened my front door, the knocker transformed into the ghostly image of my former business partner’s face. I thought nothing of this and assumed I’d eaten a bad potato.

Imagine my surprise when, after eating my nightly bowl of potato soup, the ghost of my business partner appeared right in front of me. He was talking nonsense, something about how we pay for the sins of this life in the next and clanking loads of chains. He then said I’d be visited by three other ghosts before the night was over. To be honest, the whole thing ruined my evening.

I’m going to go to bed on the basis and not give this a second thought because I still think its down to a bad potato. AIBU?

OP posts:
blinder · 24/12/2021 22:24

Ah, bum-hug!

millytilly34 · 24/12/2021 22:45

Love it x

DoncasterHombre · 24/12/2021 22:50

Potato soup, you say? And nightly, too?

Bit frivolous.

Robin233 · 25/12/2021 07:04

Very funny
You had me

SadSplinter · 25/12/2021 07:11

Is the butcher still open?

UthredofBattenberg · 25/12/2021 08:14

YABVU not to update us this morning and let us know whether this ghostly visitations have made you inclined to keep Christmas in your heart all year round...

EbenKneesZer · 25/12/2021 19:29

Well, turns out I did get three ghostly visits during the night. Really messed up my sleep pattern to be honest, but there you go. However, I feel strangely refreshed this morning. Against my better judgment, after waking, I opened my front window and shouted out to a young urchin, asking him to confirm the date. When he confirmed that it was Christmas Day, I dispatched him with £40 to buy a goose from the local butcher, who is inexplicably open, with instructions to deliver it to my clerk’s address.

I’m also going to rock up at my nephew’s unannounced. It’ll probably piss him off because he won’t have catered for the extra person but, as stated earlier, the shops round here are inexplicably open. I’ll also engage in some twee round-the-piano revelry.

Merry Christmas and may God bless us, everyone!

OP posts:
Robin233 · 26/12/2021 09:18

Thanks for the update op
Merry Christmas
I think you may find life much happier from now on.

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