Families, especially extended ones, tend to be made of various people, some of whom might not be seeing eye to eye. For some, it might be an uncle with questionable political stances, for others, it's a criminal cousin.
Today's OP is among the latter ones. And so, when she was throwing a family party to celebrate all of January's birthdays, the criminal cousin also insisted on coming. Only she had one specific request, and the original poster was against it with her whole essence.
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Extended families are made of variety of people and sometimes not all their their values align
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In this story two cousins clashed when the one with criminal past started requesting weird stuff for family's party
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To be more specific, that weird thing was to have all cameras and other filming devices turned off on the party premises
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You see, this cousin was violating her parole by attending said party, thus she didn't want her proof of it to get out
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But the party's host refused to fulfil such a request, earning nasty comments from both the cousin and the aunt
The OP's family decided to host a party to celebrate all the birthdays they have in the month of January. One of the cousins whose birthday is this month just recently got out of jail on parole, which means she isn't allowed to cross state lines.
Yet, her mom informed the post's author that her daughter is still attending the event. That's why everyone who will be there will have to turn off any of the cameras and other devices that could record proof of her being at the party.
The author found this request nonsensical and refused to realize it. She also pointed out that it seems that this cousin is up to no good, and instead of attending the family event, she might be better off at home. They refused to make her stay at home and even went behind the party's host's back and told everyone about the "camera ban," lying that the OP agreed to it.
The day of the event came, and so did the cousin. She sat outside, waiting for confirmation that everyone turned off their cameras, bugging everyone with this query by calling to check if it happened.
When the confirmation didn't come, the cousin ended up leaving, but not without ruining the mood even further. She and her aunt texted the author nasty messages and posted vague passive insults on social media. Yet, the OP doesn't really feel bad for standing up to them - the cousin seemed to be expecting everyone to accommodate her criminal activity.
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You see, technically, using social media isn’t a violation during parole. But it doesn’t mean that one should be reckless with it, as any simple action can be considered a misdemeanor. Even if the action doesn’t look like a misdemeanor. Like in this story, where a man’s post about how prison has changed him, accompanied by a photo of him flipping the bird, was considered one.
Yet, in the case of today’s story, it’s not about the fact that the woman wants to post on social media. It’s about the fact that she doesn’t want to appear there. While most commonly people like to cut down on social media due to mental health, life balance, or other reasons like this, in this story, it’s something more sinister.
It’s the simple fact that by attending her family’s party, she’s violating the rules of her parole, since she had to cross state lines to get there. After all, staying within a designated geographic area is among the most common parole rules out there. The list also includes stuff like meeting regularly with a parole officer; avoiding contact with certain individuals, and, of course, refraining from criminal activity.
Knowing her cousin, the OP suspects that she might have had plans to violate the latter rule too. That’s why she didn’t want her at the party at all, no matter whether the cameras were on or off. Netizens said that she did the right thing by standing her ground – the insistence for cameras to get turned off was indeed suspicious. Do you agree with such a stance?
Netizens praised the woman for standing her ground and not giving in to criminal cousin's weird requests
