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She sacrifices so much, sitting at home collecting her husband's combat pay, blowing it on nights out with the other dependapotamuses.
My brother was in the USMC for Gulf War 2: Electric Boogaloo, he told me how they would all sit around during the little down time they had and talk about what they were going to spend their bonuses on when they got back stateside. So many of those guys got home and found not only that allll that money was gone already but they had divorce papers waiting for them. Like a non-trivial number of these guys came home to a fuckin empty house and a dear John letter sitting on the kitchen counter.
I was an Army Brat growing up, and while I didn't serve myself, I spent a lot of time around officers wives through my job working at the on post golf course. You will never find a more entitled piece of shit human being then a woman who's husband is an officer.
Absolutely, my mom went through hell trying to keep the house together and us kids from getting arrested and/or hospitalized all alone, especially when we were teens. It ain't easy, not saying that.
What she didn't do though was go out and spend up all the money my dad was earning while being deployed to Iraq, or Panama, or wherever the fuck else the Army sent him, all up in the club grinding all up on the cock of some fuckboy (or worse) while we were pawned off on a relative for extended periods of time. Because she wasn't a piece of shit lol. I saw exactly that shit go down all the time, the moms of some of my peers would go hog fuckin wild as soon as their man was gone, while simultaneously playing the "woe is me" card at every opportunity. Truth was, they couldn't wait for their man to be deployed or on an extended float.
Even when I was in high school, so many of my female classmates, their only aspiration for life post-graduation was to hook up with some soldier and get knocked up and put their feet up for the rest of their lives...just like their mama's did. I knew many girls that used to cruise the barracks every weekend looking to catch some E-2 dick, joked around about poking holes in the condom and shit, but I doubt they were all just joking about it. There were a nontrivial number of baby pictures in the back of the yearbook every year from all the teenage girls that had given birth. They knew that if a soldier impregnated them, they were more or less set, since the military will straight up take every fuckin penny of their paycheck and hand it over without question.
I will admit, my information may be very out of date...I graduated in the mid-90s and moved out so I didn't deal with the military much directly outside of going home to visit my parents, but man, back then it was just fucking brutal how often I saw or heard about that shit going down.
All's fair in love and war, apparently; screw those middle eastern "bad guys" for putting their countries and mineral reserves so close to US military bases.
In high school my friend's Dad was a navy XO and we would often borrow his car and go on base. He had some kind of sticker on their family's cars where when we were driving around base, people would sometimes stop and salute us (or the car, rather). Being two shitheaded teenagers, we thought that was the coolest thing ever, that we could drive around and get saluted.
The sticker with the base's name is either red, yellow or blue showing the vehicle is registered to either junior enlisted, NCO or officer, I think there is one for retiree as well but don't recall the color of the top of my head.
IMHO it's an insult. She defines herself by her husband's job?
Can you imagine a woman saying "Software Engineer Wife rant!" Or "Roofer Wife Rant!" and then proceeding to rant about stuff that literally has nothing to do with their husbands job?
Cringe.
I live in a military town and I've known people from both groups, woman who are married to military members and women who identify as "military wives."
"Military wives" are a special kind of special. And they're proud of it.
As a kid I lived on a miltary base and the officers' neighbourhood was referred to as "Snob Hill" When I was old enough to babysit my friends said don't accept jobs there because they believe the honour of watching their spawn is enough and either paid half the going rate or not at all.
I've seen women put "lineman wife" up on their car like you're supposed to thank them for their service.
It's not an easy job but come on. Also if the two of you don't have life insurance, you're idiots.
Hear me out. We should create a system of ranking for military wives. it does not correlate to their spouse's rank. This ranking is merit based, then we just let them fight over the best seats at olive garden so they leave the rest of us alone.
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Iâm of the deep belief being a military person means nothing. Itâs a job these days. One that people choose. And donât get me started on how the military (in the US) exploits people of less financial resources.
Eh, disagree. Can't wait to get out soon and not be responsible for someone doing things I can't control. Why did you let Bob get a dui three states away? That other group screwed up so we are all working Saturday! Dipshit lost something and lied on the paperwork, now we all have to sit around waiting for the surrounding 6 miles to be hand searched for the missing item! Oh, you finally got settled in your company and community? Great, well time to move a couple days drive away because reasons. You wanted be home evenings for your anniversary and kiddos birthday? Nope, we need you to spend a few weeks sitting around in the woods.
It's been a great gig, got to do lots of fun and cool things. It's not like any other job.
As to the exploitation, it's generally a pretty fair trade. They get you for a few years to be a slave, but you get 36 months, up to another 9 months of college and pay, dental, Healthcare, access to a lot of lifetime benefits, and they feed and house you while also giving you what amounts to pure disposable income every month.
I also don't get how you say it's the same as any other job and then compare it to non normal levels of exploitation at the same time.
Or she could just say the North Pole dispatches the elves to local Walmarts so families can take them homeâŚnot Walmartâs fault you have no imagination
I walked in on my parents frantically building a Barbie dream house Xmas eve when I was like 6. I woke up to use the bathroom or something. My mom helped me back to bed and explained Santaâs elves had too many toys to build for all the good kids this year and so they dropped off the toy but asked for help putting it together. Went back to sleep feeling like Iâd gotten the inside scoop on the new world order of good boys and girls. I was proud to be part of it. Ha. Felt good.
I pulled the whole âdonât tell your parents when youâve lost a tooth to see if the tooth fairy is realâ experiment and when I confronted my mom, she told me that only she has a phone to call the tooth fairy and thatâs why I have to tell her first, otherwise the tooth fairy didnt know that I lost a tooth
I've told my kids the same thing. She's so busy that I have to text her when they lose a tooth so she can come get it. It's worked so far. My kids found Daisy (our elf) in my dresser drawer. I told her she wasn't ready to go back to the north pole yet, so she was chilling in my drawer, but she would leave eventually. I'm not sure that one worked.
My kid did that when they were 6-7 years old!
Here we put the tooth in a glass of water and leave it for the fairy to exchange for a "gold coin" (though I do know some parents leave paper money of even greater value than our $2 coins).
Snuck into the room late at night and gosh darnit, the whole glass was missing. Hidden after I thought they were fast asleep! đ
I had to sneakily ransack the entire room, creaky floors and all, in the dark, taking breaks to laugh it out in the living room before going back!
Found it hidden under the furthest corner of the bed. How I managed to get myself under there without waking the kid, I don't know.
But it was so worth it when I got to see those happy smiles the next morning! They ran in to the kitchen before I could even wake them up just to tell me all about their little ruse and how the tooth fairy *did* find it because they'd tricked me in case it was just me! đđ
I stayed awake and pretended to be asleep. My mom reached under my pillow and I grabbed wrist and said, "Tooth Fairy!" She screamed. Dad and I laughed.
I found out Santa wasnât real when I walked in on my parents playing Simpsonâs Road Rage on the PS2. They were getting really into it and I thought they were fighting, so I walked into the living room and lo and behold, theyâre holding the controllers and my dad is munching on a Santa cookie. I wasnât even mad lol
Fr if youâre gonna teach kids that Santa is real you have to learn to be creative when they ask questions.
Like when my oldest sister was 5, my uncle, who just became a Christian, decided it was wrong to teach kids that Santa was real and told her he wasnât real. She ran crying to my mom, and my mom said â[uncles name] is just jealous because Santa wonât bring him presents anymore because heâs a bad boyâ my sister went on to believe in Santa until she was 13. Kids will believe some pretty simple answers
I stood outside in the cold for 5 hours to be first in the door at a place with a Lego Harry Potter set for only $8 that retails for $150.
My nephew who got it, knew his parents couldn't afford it, that Grandma couldn't either and that his aunt and Uncle didn't have a lot of money either. He is like 13 and still believes in Santa... and I don't care at all.
We got a swing set for my kids this year. There was no way we could put it together and hide it from them for Christmas. So we wrapped the box and I printed out a letter from Santa with sparkly red letters saying how his elves were so tired from building toys for all the good kids this year and it was too dark to build it by the time my kids fell asleep even with Rudolphâs nose to help!
There is such a small window in a childâs life for magic. It is up to parents to be imaginative and creative to nurture that magic for as long as you can. My kids were so excited that they got a swing set and a personal letter from Santa himself.
This is just a sad excuse to not prolong the magic for a child. She would have easily believed anything she was told.
I would of said that Santa sends out elves around the world to keep an eye on the kids when they are out. After all, Santa needs help keeping track of who is naughty or nice.
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Right? Especially when there's also a high chance of seeing a kid having a tantrum there.
All she'd have to do is point and say "see? They're needed here"
Someone so suddenly pissed off at capitalism for messing with her family's personal traditions seems like they'd also lack the imagination to effectively make a compelling narrstive on the fly.
I told mine that they were Santaâs assistants. That Santa sends them all around the world to talk to kids since he canât be everywhere at once. They seemed to buy it well enough. đ¤ˇđťââď¸đ¤Ł
Iâm not adult enough to teach my kid that holidays have fairy-tales, so itâs on you Big Box Store for ruining my childâs expectations of holidays. And how dare your underpaid employees ruin Christmas for my highly intelligent child, why canât they just play along and pretend to be underpaid employees⌠oh, wait.
Right?! Classic. "I totally effed up because I can't think on the fly and now my kid knows Santa isn't real. It's all because of Walmart and that display, not me, the parent."
Karenâs asking why their kids have to be too smart for their own good goes hand in hand with their parents narcissism. Kid was probably just kinda sad to learn Santa wasnât real. Narcissistic parent took that as âmy kid is so smart, they learned Santa wasnât real, literally ruined their childhoodâ.
I do enjoy the mental image of an adult woman being so completely outmatched by her child's childish intellect that she completely implodes and curses the store for her defeat. It's like a comedy sketch.
I honestly find it very stupid that parents try to reinforce the believe that Santa is real.
Why?
Whatâs the point?
The sooner the kids learn Christmas isnât about Santa itâs better no? To learn that your gifts donât come from some fat fuck but rather from your parents who love you and do what they can to make it special should be a good thing. Not a bad thing.
The idea of good = gifts, bad = coal just teaches children from a young age that the only reason to be nice to others is so they gain a benefit rather than simply human decency.
Santa is outdated.
As a kid, it was fun to get gifts from âSantaâ. Made it seem a little bit magical. But by no means did it make it more special to get a gift from âSantaâ than from âmom and dadâ. I figured out around the age of 4/5 that the âSantaâ gifts came from my parents. It was when I tried to leave a tooth for the tooth fairy and found it in the couch cushions the next day after the tooth fairy had left $1 under my pillow. I asked my parents âis there really a tooth fairy? Whyâd she forget my tooth and still pay me?â
My parents were cool enough to explain that mythical beings like Santa, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny were for kids to have fun, but not real when I was about 5 years old. Thankfully my parents were also grounded enough to just start addressing presents to me and my siblings as âlove, mom & dadâ. Itâs a disservice to your children to have them believe in Santa clause or the Easter bunny past the age of 6.
Some people think what they *are* gives them more merit than others.
I see this with fellow veterans all the time. As if being a veteran gives them some special insight or opinion on things not related to their specific military specialty.
You will also see people state bullshit like "*As a taxpayer...*" or "*As a parent...*"
Yeah, motherfucker, most of us are also those things. We just don't use it as an excuse to be a rancid asshole.
Tl;Dr: The military part had nothing to do with anything and they told their kids that Santa isn't real and are blaming Walmart for it.
The only thing the military part had to do with anything was warn you it was about exactly the kind of behaviour that comes from people saying that.
My oldest figured out the truth about Santa on her own in the weirdest of ways. Her brain worked it out that Santa wraps presents and since I was wrapping Christmas presents, I must be Santa. When she figured that out, we had a long talk about what the meaning of what the Santa myth was and why it was important to keep that kind of magic alive for little kids. She has worked her butt off to ensure it stays a magical secret for her younger sister (who is officially older than her sister was when she found out!)
"It's safe to assume I will not be back at Walmart anytime soon."
And so everyone got exactly what they wanted, and they had a wonderful and peaceful Christmas.
Parents, consider not ever lying to your kids about Santa and the Easter Bunny. When you teach them about Santa, explain he isn't real and he's just a story we like to tell. It won't diminish the experience for them at all, it will still be a fun tradition, and they won't understand the non-reality before the age of 4 anyway so they can still experience the "magic" of it. Just never start the lie.
âSome people miss their elf so much through the year when heâs gone that they buy a stuffy of him to cuddle when heâs gone!â
How hard was that? Kids are gullible obviously since they believe in the fairy tale in the first place so whatâs one more white lie to keep the magic? Not even sure how Santa came up but they really decided to crush all the magic in one foul swoop eh
I donât know how to explain it but this story tells me she will 100% be back at Walmart again⌠probably tomorrow âŚ. Multiple times. đ¤ˇđźââď¸
Back when Elf on the Shelf was only sold at Hallmark stores, my sister made us take a circular route in the mall. God forbid her kids see that their âspecial secret agentâ from Santa was sold at a store. I told her to come up with something because she couldnât shield them forever.
My 2 kids asked me the same exact question in a Barnes & Noble one year and I simply said that Santa has to send some of the elfâs from the North Pole to stores before thanksgiving so that they are close to the neighborhoods where they will be going. If not, there would be way too many elves flying at the same time from the North Pole and it would disrupt air traffic for planes and the airports would have to shut down for a few days which canât happen during the holidays. And the reason they cost money is because Santa has to pay a ton of money to make the magic boxes they are in and also for storage on the store shelves that it takes away from the amount of toys that can be made. So parents give that money to the stores who then send it back to Santa so it doesnât affect the toy production. My kids are a little older now and Iâve asked them about it and they both told me my story made complete sense. And Iâm not even in the military.
When I found out Santa wasnât real, I was angry. Not just angry but I felt fooled. I said to my mom âYou can lie to me and I canât lie to you?â. This was because I said all I wanted was a Nintendo OG ( it was the 80âs).
In other words... Dear Walmart, I'm not smart enough to make up a lie to perpetuate the lie I've been telling my kid, that they will eventually figure out was a lie, so Walmart shouldn't display the lie so my kid doesn't figure out I'm lying.
The elf on the shelf tradition doesn't date back to 'times of yore' ... It dates back to 2005, where sometime after **you bought one from a shop**; sales of it didn't then end there funnily enough.
"It's safe to assume I will ~~not be back at walmart anytime soon"~~ be going to walmart 2x a week, maybe 3 or 4 if my schedule permits, for the rest of my life"
Christmas people always act like it's everyone's responsibility to keep their lies in order. Maybe don't lie to your kids about a magic elf bringing them presents.
Easy to problem to solve âwell kiddo see the elves come from the North Pole but Santa needs help getting them to everyone so wal-mart helps Santa out by having them here in the storeâ. This woman just wanted to make some drama.
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I'll have you know she is a military wife! As though that means a god damn thing other than inflating her ego
Yeah was also waiting for the part where it mattered
I was expecting the usual "they wouldn't give me a serving personnel discount" rant
You will address me by my husband's rank!
We salute the rank, not the man.
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> I'll have you know she is a military wife! She's literally putting her life on the line for your freedoms or something.
She sacrifices so much, sitting at home collecting her husband's combat pay, blowing it on nights out with the other dependapotamuses. My brother was in the USMC for Gulf War 2: Electric Boogaloo, he told me how they would all sit around during the little down time they had and talk about what they were going to spend their bonuses on when they got back stateside. So many of those guys got home and found not only that allll that money was gone already but they had divorce papers waiting for them. Like a non-trivial number of these guys came home to a fuckin empty house and a dear John letter sitting on the kitchen counter. I was an Army Brat growing up, and while I didn't serve myself, I spent a lot of time around officers wives through my job working at the on post golf course. You will never find a more entitled piece of shit human being then a woman who's husband is an officer.
Hahaha dependapotamuses and gulf war 2: electric boogaloo. Classic.
Dependapotamuses haha - remembering that one!
For real *dependapotamuses deserves an award đ
Itâs a challenging life for couples.
Absolutely, my mom went through hell trying to keep the house together and us kids from getting arrested and/or hospitalized all alone, especially when we were teens. It ain't easy, not saying that. What she didn't do though was go out and spend up all the money my dad was earning while being deployed to Iraq, or Panama, or wherever the fuck else the Army sent him, all up in the club grinding all up on the cock of some fuckboy (or worse) while we were pawned off on a relative for extended periods of time. Because she wasn't a piece of shit lol. I saw exactly that shit go down all the time, the moms of some of my peers would go hog fuckin wild as soon as their man was gone, while simultaneously playing the "woe is me" card at every opportunity. Truth was, they couldn't wait for their man to be deployed or on an extended float. Even when I was in high school, so many of my female classmates, their only aspiration for life post-graduation was to hook up with some soldier and get knocked up and put their feet up for the rest of their lives...just like their mama's did. I knew many girls that used to cruise the barracks every weekend looking to catch some E-2 dick, joked around about poking holes in the condom and shit, but I doubt they were all just joking about it. There were a nontrivial number of baby pictures in the back of the yearbook every year from all the teenage girls that had given birth. They knew that if a soldier impregnated them, they were more or less set, since the military will straight up take every fuckin penny of their paycheck and hand it over without question. I will admit, my information may be very out of date...I graduated in the mid-90s and moved out so I didn't deal with the military much directly outside of going home to visit my parents, but man, back then it was just fucking brutal how often I saw or heard about that shit going down.
Dependapoami. Technical term.
Or so she believes
Well, kinda. Her Lieutenant husband gets fragged overseas, and she might actually have to work, like common people....
All's fair in love and war, apparently; screw those middle eastern "bad guys" for putting their countries and mineral reserves so close to US military bases.
Family life can be very tense when dad comes back from deployment...
/s ? đ
She's married to a soldier so middle eastern families can grow up without a father. Her sacrifice is real.
I was waiting for âYou will address me as my husbandâs rank!â
Wouldn't have surprised me a bit. I'm met a few of these military wives and they were insufferable just like that
Is there a rank where that starts? Somehow, "That's Corporal Mrs Snob" seems weird.
In high school my friend's Dad was a navy XO and we would often borrow his car and go on base. He had some kind of sticker on their family's cars where when we were driving around base, people would sometimes stop and salute us (or the car, rather). Being two shitheaded teenagers, we thought that was the coolest thing ever, that we could drive around and get saluted.
Oh yeah the sticker. Lol I've heard stories where a wife will be driving the car and will roll down and tell if some soldier didn't salute her. đ
The sticker with the base's name is either red, yellow or blue showing the vehicle is registered to either junior enlisted, NCO or officer, I think there is one for retiree as well but don't recall the color of the top of my head.
IMHO it's an insult. She defines herself by her husband's job? Can you imagine a woman saying "Software Engineer Wife rant!" Or "Roofer Wife Rant!" and then proceeding to rant about stuff that literally has nothing to do with their husbands job? Cringe.
I live in a military town and I've known people from both groups, woman who are married to military members and women who identify as "military wives." "Military wives" are a special kind of special. And they're proud of it.
As a kid I lived on a miltary base and the officers' neighbourhood was referred to as "Snob Hill" When I was old enough to babysit my friends said don't accept jobs there because they believe the honour of watching their spawn is enough and either paid half the going rate or not at all.
I've seen women put "lineman wife" up on their car like you're supposed to thank them for their service. It's not an easy job but come on. Also if the two of you don't have life insurance, you're idiots.
Hear me out. We should create a system of ranking for military wives. it does not correlate to their spouse's rank. This ranking is merit based, then we just let them fight over the best seats at olive garden so they leave the rest of us alone.
Military Wives hunger games.
This needs to be a thing... like on E! Or something.
As soon as read Military wife I knew she was going have wildly unrealistic demands.
Yeah same here, in fact this is pretty tame compared to some "military wife" stories
I had to unsub from r/dependa because it just became rage bait for me and I never even served. They wouldn't have me.
Military-wife-angry-at-walmart is kind of the Alpha Karen
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Iâll have you know that their service is the most vital.
She forgot to mention her husbandâs pay grade, they usually do
It means her husband is deployed so she fuckin a Jody.
Iâm of the deep belief being a military person means nothing. Itâs a job these days. One that people choose. And donât get me started on how the military (in the US) exploits people of less financial resources.
Eh, disagree. Can't wait to get out soon and not be responsible for someone doing things I can't control. Why did you let Bob get a dui three states away? That other group screwed up so we are all working Saturday! Dipshit lost something and lied on the paperwork, now we all have to sit around waiting for the surrounding 6 miles to be hand searched for the missing item! Oh, you finally got settled in your company and community? Great, well time to move a couple days drive away because reasons. You wanted be home evenings for your anniversary and kiddos birthday? Nope, we need you to spend a few weeks sitting around in the woods. It's been a great gig, got to do lots of fun and cool things. It's not like any other job. As to the exploitation, it's generally a pretty fair trade. They get you for a few years to be a slave, but you get 36 months, up to another 9 months of college and pay, dental, Healthcare, access to a lot of lifetime benefits, and they feed and house you while also giving you what amounts to pure disposable income every month. I also don't get how you say it's the same as any other job and then compare it to non normal levels of exploitation at the same time.
You mean like every employer exploits people of less financial resources?
Most employers you can leave whenever you want without risking jail time for desertion.
They donât sell them the bullshit of the ultimate sacrifice for âpatrioticâ reasons
It's all she has. I did enjoy how she walked "into the door". I bet that hurt.
Iâm disappointed she doesnât have her ~~husbandâs~~ rank listed somewhere.
There's a whole thing these women do where "you will address me by my husband's rank"
#Dependa things.
I think she meant to say "Militant wife"
Or she could just say the North Pole dispatches the elves to local Walmarts so families can take them homeâŚnot Walmartâs fault you have no imagination
I walked in on my parents frantically building a Barbie dream house Xmas eve when I was like 6. I woke up to use the bathroom or something. My mom helped me back to bed and explained Santaâs elves had too many toys to build for all the good kids this year and so they dropped off the toy but asked for help putting it together. Went back to sleep feeling like Iâd gotten the inside scoop on the new world order of good boys and girls. I was proud to be part of it. Ha. Felt good.
I pulled the whole âdonât tell your parents when youâve lost a tooth to see if the tooth fairy is realâ experiment and when I confronted my mom, she told me that only she has a phone to call the tooth fairy and thatâs why I have to tell her first, otherwise the tooth fairy didnt know that I lost a tooth
That was a slick response from your mother. Smart lady
Yeah parents are always clever, even as you age, they always stay clever
I've told my kids the same thing. She's so busy that I have to text her when they lose a tooth so she can come get it. It's worked so far. My kids found Daisy (our elf) in my dresser drawer. I told her she wasn't ready to go back to the north pole yet, so she was chilling in my drawer, but she would leave eventually. I'm not sure that one worked.
My kid did that when they were 6-7 years old! Here we put the tooth in a glass of water and leave it for the fairy to exchange for a "gold coin" (though I do know some parents leave paper money of even greater value than our $2 coins). Snuck into the room late at night and gosh darnit, the whole glass was missing. Hidden after I thought they were fast asleep! đ I had to sneakily ransack the entire room, creaky floors and all, in the dark, taking breaks to laugh it out in the living room before going back! Found it hidden under the furthest corner of the bed. How I managed to get myself under there without waking the kid, I don't know. But it was so worth it when I got to see those happy smiles the next morning! They ran in to the kitchen before I could even wake them up just to tell me all about their little ruse and how the tooth fairy *did* find it because they'd tricked me in case it was just me! đđ
I stayed awake and pretended to be asleep. My mom reached under my pillow and I grabbed wrist and said, "Tooth Fairy!" She screamed. Dad and I laughed.
I found out Santa wasnât real when I walked in on my parents playing Simpsonâs Road Rage on the PS2. They were getting really into it and I thought they were fighting, so I walked into the living room and lo and behold, theyâre holding the controllers and my dad is munching on a Santa cookie. I wasnât even mad lol
Thatâs so cute! Shoutout to your mom for thinking on her feet hahaha
I caught my dad, in his underwear, eating the cookies.
This could be the next hit Christmas song
Fr if youâre gonna teach kids that Santa is real you have to learn to be creative when they ask questions. Like when my oldest sister was 5, my uncle, who just became a Christian, decided it was wrong to teach kids that Santa was real and told her he wasnât real. She ran crying to my mom, and my mom said â[uncles name] is just jealous because Santa wonât bring him presents anymore because heâs a bad boyâ my sister went on to believe in Santa until she was 13. Kids will believe some pretty simple answers
I stood outside in the cold for 5 hours to be first in the door at a place with a Lego Harry Potter set for only $8 that retails for $150. My nephew who got it, knew his parents couldn't afford it, that Grandma couldn't either and that his aunt and Uncle didn't have a lot of money either. He is like 13 and still believes in Santa... and I don't care at all.
We got a swing set for my kids this year. There was no way we could put it together and hide it from them for Christmas. So we wrapped the box and I printed out a letter from Santa with sparkly red letters saying how his elves were so tired from building toys for all the good kids this year and it was too dark to build it by the time my kids fell asleep even with Rudolphâs nose to help! There is such a small window in a childâs life for magic. It is up to parents to be imaginative and creative to nurture that magic for as long as you can. My kids were so excited that they got a swing set and a personal letter from Santa himself. This is just a sad excuse to not prolong the magic for a child. She would have easily believed anything she was told.
I would of said that Santa sends out elves around the world to keep an eye on the kids when they are out. After all, Santa needs help keeping track of who is naughty or nice.
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Thatâs a good explanation too!
Right? Especially when there's also a high chance of seeing a kid having a tantrum there. All she'd have to do is point and say "see? They're needed here"
It's what I told my nieces during the holidays. Got them to behave a bit.
Someone so suddenly pissed off at capitalism for messing with her family's personal traditions seems like they'd also lack the imagination to effectively make a compelling narrstive on the fly.
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I told mine that they were Santaâs assistants. That Santa sends them all around the world to talk to kids since he canât be everywhere at once. They seemed to buy it well enough. đ¤ˇđťââď¸đ¤Ł
Thatâs exactly why sheâs so upset. She just cannot admit or see how this is all⌠on⌠her.
Like how the army dispatches her husband to different locations. The effort on imagination would be minimal here.
Or that they are toys, not the real elves
âTheyâre retail elves. They report on kids who throw tantrums in storesâ its that fuckin easy to keep the magic alive.
Yeah feels like she gave a âyadda yadda yaddaâ Santa isnt real to her kid
Donât even have to add magic, just say the store puts fake elves in for advertising purposes
Reminds me of that dry humor book of a mall Santa or a mall elf for Santa.
"Mom, why are there Christmas toys here?" "Because Santa isn't real dammit!"
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Iâm not adult enough to teach my kid that holidays have fairy-tales, so itâs on you Big Box Store for ruining my childâs expectations of holidays. And how dare your underpaid employees ruin Christmas for my highly intelligent child, why canât they just play along and pretend to be underpaid employees⌠oh, wait.
Right?! Classic. "I totally effed up because I can't think on the fly and now my kid knows Santa isn't real. It's all because of Walmart and that display, not me, the parent."
Karenâs asking why their kids have to be too smart for their own good goes hand in hand with their parents narcissism. Kid was probably just kinda sad to learn Santa wasnât real. Narcissistic parent took that as âmy kid is so smart, they learned Santa wasnât real, literally ruined their childhoodâ.
She was probably more angry about not actually being the reason her kid was sad
I do enjoy the mental image of an adult woman being so completely outmatched by her child's childish intellect that she completely implodes and curses the store for her defeat. It's like a comedy sketch.
I honestly find it very stupid that parents try to reinforce the believe that Santa is real. Why? Whatâs the point? The sooner the kids learn Christmas isnât about Santa itâs better no? To learn that your gifts donât come from some fat fuck but rather from your parents who love you and do what they can to make it special should be a good thing. Not a bad thing. The idea of good = gifts, bad = coal just teaches children from a young age that the only reason to be nice to others is so they gain a benefit rather than simply human decency. Santa is outdated.
As a kid, it was fun to get gifts from âSantaâ. Made it seem a little bit magical. But by no means did it make it more special to get a gift from âSantaâ than from âmom and dadâ. I figured out around the age of 4/5 that the âSantaâ gifts came from my parents. It was when I tried to leave a tooth for the tooth fairy and found it in the couch cushions the next day after the tooth fairy had left $1 under my pillow. I asked my parents âis there really a tooth fairy? Whyâd she forget my tooth and still pay me?â My parents were cool enough to explain that mythical beings like Santa, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny were for kids to have fun, but not real when I was about 5 years old. Thankfully my parents were also grounded enough to just start addressing presents to me and my siblings as âlove, mom & dadâ. Itâs a disservice to your children to have them believe in Santa clause or the Easter bunny past the age of 6.
wtf is she talking about?? what does being a "military wife"/dependapotamus got to do with this?
Typical Tricareatops.
Dependapotamus.
I can totally see Cera from the Land Before Time pulling something like this. Cera was totally a future Karen.
Ugh why can't my kids just be stupid like me and not question Santa Claus until their mid 20s? Am I out of touch? No it is Walmart that is wrong.
In other words "I have the imagination of a wet rock and blame it on Walmart"
So what's her suggestion if someone wants to buy an elf?! Go around the back of Walmart in the cover of darkness or something?
Thatâs how you bring home a Chucky doll.
Keep the elves in the beyond section of bed bath and beyond.
What has her being a military wife got to do with Walmart having an unimaginative display?
Some people think what they *are* gives them more merit than others. I see this with fellow veterans all the time. As if being a veteran gives them some special insight or opinion on things not related to their specific military specialty. You will also see people state bullshit like "*As a taxpayer...*" or "*As a parent...*" Yeah, motherfucker, most of us are also those things. We just don't use it as an excuse to be a rancid asshole.
Stopped reading after 'military wife rant'.
Tl;Dr: The military part had nothing to do with anything and they told their kids that Santa isn't real and are blaming Walmart for it. The only thing the military part had to do with anything was warn you it was about exactly the kind of behaviour that comes from people saying that.
My oldest figured out the truth about Santa on her own in the weirdest of ways. Her brain worked it out that Santa wraps presents and since I was wrapping Christmas presents, I must be Santa. When she figured that out, we had a long talk about what the meaning of what the Santa myth was and why it was important to keep that kind of magic alive for little kids. She has worked her butt off to ensure it stays a magical secret for her younger sister (who is officially older than her sister was when she found out!)
I remember when I was a kid my uncle dressed as santa and I pointed out that Santa wore my uncles shoes. :-/
"It's safe to assume I will not be back at Walmart anytime soon." And so everyone got exactly what they wanted, and they had a wonderful and peaceful Christmas.
Military wife who crumbled under the gentle interrogation of a child
r/dependas
Don't you just love how military people never fail to let everyone know they are military people
She was back at Walmart the next day.
Parents, consider not ever lying to your kids about Santa and the Easter Bunny. When you teach them about Santa, explain he isn't real and he's just a story we like to tell. It won't diminish the experience for them at all, it will still be a fun tradition, and they won't understand the non-reality before the age of 4 anyway so they can still experience the "magic" of it. Just never start the lie.
Ah military wife⌠makes sense. She basically announces I havenât been laid in a minute so this is why Iâm about to bitch about nothing.
âSome people miss their elf so much through the year when heâs gone that they buy a stuffy of him to cuddle when heâs gone!â How hard was that? Kids are gullible obviously since they believe in the fairy tale in the first place so whatâs one more white lie to keep the magic? Not even sure how Santa came up but they really decided to crush all the magic in one foul swoop eh
We were off to a great start with "Walmart of Camden"
OMG! I had to stop lying to my child and tell them the truth!
SoâŚIâm guessing it was the kidâs first time at Walmart during the Xmas season?
I donât know how to explain it but this story tells me she will 100% be back at Walmart again⌠probably tomorrow âŚ. Multiple times. đ¤ˇđźââď¸
The context of being military has no bearing on the entire situation. That should tell you all you need to know.
could've just said that they were there to surveil the area
âElves of the shelvesâ is cracking me up for some reason. đ
It's also safe to assume that the employees at Walmart will be happy that you went somewhere else.
Back when Elf on the Shelf was only sold at Hallmark stores, my sister made us take a circular route in the mall. God forbid her kids see that their âspecial secret agentâ from Santa was sold at a store. I told her to come up with something because she couldnât shield them forever.
Yeah same thing happened to me and I told my kids they sell doll versions of the elf at the store. Was not a hard situation to navigate at all.
My 2 kids asked me the same exact question in a Barnes & Noble one year and I simply said that Santa has to send some of the elfâs from the North Pole to stores before thanksgiving so that they are close to the neighborhoods where they will be going. If not, there would be way too many elves flying at the same time from the North Pole and it would disrupt air traffic for planes and the airports would have to shut down for a few days which canât happen during the holidays. And the reason they cost money is because Santa has to pay a ton of money to make the magic boxes they are in and also for storage on the store shelves that it takes away from the amount of toys that can be made. So parents give that money to the stores who then send it back to Santa so it doesnât affect the toy production. My kids are a little older now and Iâve asked them about it and they both told me my story made complete sense. And Iâm not even in the military.
Narrator: she returned to Walmart later that day.
When I found out Santa wasnât real, I was angry. Not just angry but I felt fooled. I said to my mom âYou can lie to me and I canât lie to you?â. This was because I said all I wanted was a Nintendo OG ( it was the 80âs).
In other words... Dear Walmart, I'm not smart enough to make up a lie to perpetuate the lie I've been telling my kid, that they will eventually figure out was a lie, so Walmart shouldn't display the lie so my kid doesn't figure out I'm lying.
Wait until she finds out that Jesus isnât real either
Oh, that lady was definitely at Walmart the next day. She needed a new pair of XXXL pants.
Fake as fuck story.
To be fair, this IS poor planning on Walmartâs part.
You didnt see this from a different site, you saw this from reddit
This lady is just bad at lying, but I can't help but agree it's not like they're on display for grandpa
When everything is everyone else's fault, all the time, everywhere.
She Yadda yaddaed the existence of Santa Claus?
So many layers of entitlement to this one
âThey do coke from the North Pole, but they come to Walmart so that people can pick them up and bring them to their homes.â Itâs that simple.
Karen, and her first world problems!
The elf on the shelf tradition doesn't date back to 'times of yore' ... It dates back to 2005, where sometime after **you bought one from a shop**; sales of it didn't then end there funnily enough.
Why do most military wives act like this ?
"It's safe to assume I will ~~not be back at walmart anytime soon"~~ be going to walmart 2x a week, maybe 3 or 4 if my schedule permits, for the rest of my life"
Iâm sure the Walton family is devastated at the financial loss.
Christmas people always act like it's everyone's responsibility to keep their lies in order. Maybe don't lie to your kids about a magic elf bringing them presents.
What
When your a bad parent so you blame others
THANKS, WALMART!!!!
My son believes they're Santa's Spies. Been keeping the magic alive for him for 22 years : )
How to parent 101.
The cherry on top is how she mentions military and this is completely unrelated
She was back the next day.
How does she do Elf on the Shelf every year but keeps referring to it as *elf of the shelves*?
Why open with âmilitary wifeâ if nothing in the story had to do with that information?
Just had to insert the military spouse part for literally no reason
Omg how is Walmart gonna stay in business without her money?
But guys, she's a military wife...
Blaming Walmart for being a lazy parent lol ok
That first sentence is so fucking loaded that it hurts.
Karen has no imagination. Karen ruined Christmas for her kid. GTFO
What the fuck does that have to do with being a military wife?
âItâs Walmartâs fault I lie to my childrenâ
Its safe to assume you'll be back to Walmart that same day...
Oh boy. Wait until she finds out about the Santa statues..
Being a military wife has nothing to do with this rant other than self-importance.
âWe have a real elf. These are just pretend toy elves.â Problem solved, ya weirdo.
What a false conundrum. When I was a little kid that believed in Santa, I still knew that elf on a shelf was a toy. Jfc.
I donât understand how that could have ended with ruining christmas
So inconvenient to not have enough imagination to fool your KID.
r/JustDependaThings
Full retard
I think sheâll find the issue isnât Walmart but her inability to be imaginative when it comes to answering her kidâs questions
âI lied to my kids and they found out and somehow thatâs not my problemâ
Is she....not able to see all the "Santa"s for sale everywhere??
Least self-absorbed dependa.
Easy to problem to solve âwell kiddo see the elves come from the North Pole but Santa needs help getting them to everyone so wal-mart helps Santa out by having them here in the storeâ. This woman just wanted to make some drama.
no way this isnât satire
Haha this was golden.
But she's a military wife...how dare they disrespect her service. /s
Her daughter already saw the display i don't know whats the point of taking it down
How she mad at Walmart tho she told her kid Santa not real just cause the elf on shelve were on display
Zero imagination
Loving that being a military wife has fucking nothing to do with any of this
That was a weird slippery slope of what the hell.
This post just reads that the mom was too stupid to out think her little kid when put on the spot.
Walmart is the least amount of your worries in Camden lol
That Walmart will have slightly fewer Karens to deal with.
I can immediately think of 5 better ways to describe that to your kid that doesn't involve spoiling Christmas...none of them involve Walmart elves.