It's a strange feeling, watching a group of people slowly and deliberately make you an pariah. And the means of this kind of social warfare can be totally arbitrary. The type of car you have or the brand of phone you buy can all be used against you if you're around the type of miserable people who are willing to judge you on it.
Something as petty as a cake can be turned into a symbol of solidarity in order to alienate and delegitimize a person's standing in a group. Or at least it feels that way when you're consistently asked to bring a dessert that everyone deliberately ignores. To put it more succinctly, "this isn't baking, this is war."
That's why OP decided to copy some cake pops and prove to her in-laws that they're a bunch of lying bastards.
For a delightful tale of revenge, here's the neighbor who lied about mulberry wine to get their eavesdropping neighbor to chop down their own tree.
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