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How To Answer Those Awkward Questions This Thanksgiving With Help From Parks And Rec

It happens every year. Better prepare yourself.

Steffany D'Angelo

Nov 21, 2016

Birmingham, Alabama

How To Answer Those Awkward Questions This Thanksgiving With Help From Parks And Rec

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There are so many things to love about Thanksgiving--the freshly carved turkey, mouthwatering dressing, and an endless supply of sweet potato casserole. Holidays are about celebrations with family and friends. With that comes the blunt, nosy great aunt that isn't at all informed about what has been going on in your life and thinks that Thanksgiving dinner is the perfect time to educate herself on all things you-related. The older you get, the more pressing the questions become and you begin to have fewer answers to them, (*cue sweaty palms*) especially if you are a recent college graduate.

Have no fear! Here are prepared answers to all of the questions you'll ~~probably~~definitely get asked this holiday season as told by Parks and Recreation:

1. Where are you working now?

Listen, when you find me somewhere that will hire someone with a Bachelor's degree with no experience and pays well, let me know.

2. How are you?

3. Are you dating anyone?

No, and no I do not want you to set me up with the nice, young boy who delivers your mail.

4. Why not?

Answering a question with a question is always a go-to.

5. How are you spending your free time now that you're finished with school?

6. Are you happy to be finished?

7. Any political question/comment

8. Have you put on a few pounds?

9. Can you watch the kids for a bit?

10. Oh, you're going back for seconds?

10. Whatever happened to insert ex's name here?

11. Why did you get a degree in that anyway? There aren't any jobs in that field.

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How To Answer Those Awkward Questions This Thanksgiving With Help From Parks And Rec

It happens every year. Better prepare yourself.

1. Where are you working now?

2. How are you?

3. Are you dating anyone?

4. Why not?

5. How are you spending your free time now that you're finished with school?

6. Are you happy to be finished?

7. Any political question/comment

8. Have you put on a few pounds?

9. Can you watch the kids for a bit?

10. Oh, you're going back for seconds?

10. Whatever happened to *insert ex's name here*?

11. Why did you get a degree in that anyway? There aren't any jobs in that field.

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You know that all of these things apply to you. You'll just never tell.

I get it... I'm pale.

1. At least I can't lose you in a crowd!

2. Oh my goodness your skin is like glow-in-the-dark.

3. Can't you just get fake tan?

4. Do you tan or just burn?

5. Your kids are going to look like Casper the Friendly Ghost!

6. *holds arm against your arm* Look how much darker I am compared to you!

7. *holds pale arm against another pale arm* Aw, at least you're darker than her!

8. I laid out by the pool almost every day over break!

9. I haven't used sunscreen since I was, like, five.

10. *adjusts selfie lighting to their face* Oops, where'd you go??

11. *after working out* Your face is SO red!

12. *wears white* Look! You're all one color!

13. You need to get some sun.

14. Aren't you excited for summer?

The struggle bus is real.

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2. Hearing other musicians in the practice room next door and accepting that you will never be as talented as them:

3. That anxiety that takes over before every performance:

4. Taking a million 0 credit classes:

5. When there's a paper due the next day, but you have to attend yet another concert in order to pass a 0 credit class:

6. When your friends try to encourage you after a performance, even though you are criticizing everything in your mind:

7. Knowing that there's always that one professor during juries:

8. The oh-so-attractive band/choir uniforms:

9. Realizing that a college campus is maybe not the best atmosphere to finish your latest composition:

10. Hearing "Oh, you sing opera? I LOVE Phantom of the Opera!" for the hundredth time:

11. When people think finals week is a breeze for you.

12. When you're drowning in the stress that comes with 18+ credits (and not to mention all those 0 credit classes) and people ask you how you are:

13. When it all comes down to it, though, you know that at the end of the day, music is your passion:

Because you need it in your life.

We don't buy into these... just like how we don't buy our friends.

8. "The whole philanthropy thing isn't real, right?"

7. "I don't need to buy my friends."

6. "Oh, so I'll bet you love to drink."

5. "Can you tell me some of your secrets?"

4. "What do you do at your meetings?"

3. "Do you guys haze really badly?"

2. "Is it just like in the movies?"

1. "Sororities are so basic."

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6. holds arm against your arm Look how much darker I am compared to you!

7. holds pale arm against another pale arm Aw, at least you're darker than her!

10. adjusts selfie lighting to their face Oops, where'd you go??

11. after working out Your face is SO red!

12. wears white Look! You're all one color!