Once in the 1990s I attended an office holiday party at a restaurant. Something was off with the food served. We cut into the meat and found out that it was veal.
That was long before the protest against eating veal was popular. We were upset to be served the veal back in the 1990s at the holiday party.
Closing out the 1990s I attended another office holiday party. The attraction was the shrimp which two of us piled on our plates.
One year recently at a holiday party at a restaurant I lost my hat. It was my favorite crimson knit cloche that I had bought at a holiday gift fair in the 1990s.
Where the hat went I had no idea as others saw me wearing it when we went to the restaurant.
The thing I can tell you is that on 12/26 the day after Christmas it’s not advised to ask a coworker how their holiday was. Unless you know that they celebrate Christmas.
As I found out when the person told me they don’t celebrate the holidays after I asked how their holiday was. You can try asking if the person celebrated the holidays. Then if they did you can ask how it was.
I would also like to say that the holiday party is not the place to get drunk or stoned on weed with coworkers. Not matter how nonchalant your workplace code is.
I say treat yourself to a holiday gift if you celebrate. Though it makes no sense to go into debt buying gifts for yourself or others or to host a dinner party.
On a humorous note, to end with:
In December 2017 I bought a sweater online from Uniqlo. The USPS listed that the item was delivered when it hadn’t arrived.
Waiting on hold with the USPS to find out what happened a recorded announcement told me that the USPS is the best way to ship holiday gifts.
Not so. The package didn’t arrive from Uniqlo that December 2017 with the USPS.
In March 2018 I arrived home to find a plastic bag in front of my door. I hadn’t ordered anything. the label listed that it was shipped from Uniqlo.
Opening the package I saw that it was the sweater that should’ve arrived in December 2017!
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