Thanksgiving Extra-Credit Assignment My family has never been big on the holidays- I almost always spend them at a friend’s home. This year, I went to my friend Alex’s home for Thanksgiving alongside my friend Jay. Alex and Jay are frankly some of the greatest friends I can ask for, and going in to thank them I knew they would take it light-heartedly and make a joke out of it. Before we sat down for dinner, the three of us were sitting in her living room ranting and cracking jokes. I was rehearsing the lines in my head, thinking of ways to pop the sentence to them. I finally settled on “Hey guys, thank you for always being there for me and listening to me complain, even though you don’t know what I’m saying half the time.” I knew the last line would make them laugh and go on a rampage
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On the way there, we were cracking jokes about school and I decided this was a good time to tell them. This time around, I got up to “By the way guys, thank you for…” before Alex cut me off and said “Wait are you doing the English assignment thing? Mahika mentioned it to me yesterday when we were facetiming!” Before I knew it, Jay and Alex were yelling nonsense at each other back and forth before I yelled “YA DUM DUMS I was trying to thank you for being loyal unlike the rest of our friends and listening to me but…” I dramatically rolled my eyes to be petty, “I guess you don’t care. Whatever. I’ll go live a sad lonely life while you guys go hang out with your Colonia friends, who you obviously appreciate more.” There was dead silence for a split second, and all of a sudden I heard Jay yell “SHEAA” out of shock and humor, as he knew I was kidding, and Alex’s obnoxious laugh (reminiscent of a hyena) filling the car. Following the experience, I felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders, as I don’t really let my loved ones know how much I loved them until it was too late. It was a regret I had about my grandpa’s death and telling that to
On the way there, we were cracking jokes about school and I decided this was a good time to tell them. This time around, I got up to “By the way guys, thank you for…” before Alex cut me off and said “Wait are you doing the English assignment thing? Mahika mentioned it to me yesterday when we were facetiming!” Before I knew it, Jay and Alex were yelling nonsense at each other back and forth before I yelled “YA DUM DUMS I was trying to thank you for being loyal unlike the rest of our friends and listening to me but…” I dramatically rolled my eyes to be petty, “I guess you don’t care. Whatever. I’ll go live a sad lonely life while you guys go hang out with your Colonia friends, who you obviously appreciate more.” There was dead silence for a split second, and all of a sudden I heard Jay yell “SHEAA” out of shock and humor, as he knew I was kidding, and Alex’s obnoxious laugh (reminiscent of a hyena) filling the car. Following the experience, I felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders, as I don’t really let my loved ones know how much I loved them until it was too late. It was a regret I had about my grandpa’s death and telling that to