Top 10 Things I Hate About All Saints' Day

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10. Traffic.

9. Expensive candles and flowers.

8. Liquor ban.

7. Kids who wait and take the melted candles to sell to recycled candle makers.

6. Kids who do not wait and take the candles even if they haven’t melted yet.

5. Highlighting the engraved name of a departed loved one on a tombstone with a marker.

4. Hauling a tent, a table, a cooler, chairs, and many more to the cemetery and then hauling them back home at the end of the day.

3. Not knowing what to eat because of so many choices.

2. Getting together with relatives who I don’t often see but then they feel like they know everything about me and they have the right to judge me.

1. The fact that I am obligated to ride the bandwagon with other people on this day just to avoid being called a jerk that doesn’t seem to give a fuck about dead loved ones. Even if you visit them every day on the other 364 days of the year; if you do not visit on All Saint’s Day, you’re a fucking asshole.

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