Summary: Unnecessary Holiday Traditions

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#3-The main character has faced many problems throughout his life. Tyler Oakley has experienced both difficult and minor challenges ranging from his parent’s divorce to not getting his beets on his Skinnylicious Veggie Burger at The Cheesecake Factory. Tyler has pretty much been through it all, he went from publicly supporting and interviewing One Direction to being hated by all of their fans. It got so bad that the One Direction fans got #WeWantTylerOakleyDead and #WeHateYouTyler trending on twitter. Tyler decides to solve this huge problem by shutting down his laptop and computer for a week and reexamined his words and actions but still could not understand why this was happening to him. When Tyler was younger he was addicted to an online video game that you had to pay $9.95-a-month to play. His parents worked a lot but didn’t want him on the game so much so they disconnected the internet and took the cable to reconnect it with them. He decided to rollerblade to the nearest hardware store and buy a new cable for when they were gone,
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Both of these chapters were hilarious, just like the rest of the book. It got serious at some parts and strange at others, but most of the book was hilarious. In the Unnecessary Holiday Traditions chapter Tyler says not to pinch people on St. Patrick’s Day because their not wearing green, “That is assault, and green is not slimming, and I need you to respect that.” He also does not understand Groundhog Day. “If on a day in February, a groundhog comes out of his hole and sees his shadow,he somehow predicts the weather for the next month or two,which not even a Doppler radar can do. Is this some next-level witchcraft?” If Tyler Oakley was Beyonce for a day one of the twenty things he would do is call Apple. “The world needs a Beyonce

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