Happy New Year, Like Gosh!

(My birthday is in December. The year ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ comes out, I spend WEEKS emphatically telling my mother’s fiancé that I have no interest in the movie and don’t want it. For my birthday, he gives me ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ on DVD. I toss it in a corner and do my best to forget about it, but when he visits for New Year’s, he insists we (him, myself, my mother, my sister, and my girlfriend) watch it. I submit because I can’t stand the idea of ever actually arguing with him, but I do not enjoy the movie at all, and am irritated and restless throughout. As midnight approaches, we pause the movie to watch the ball drop in New York.)

Girlfriend: *looking at me as we turn the movie off* “I have never seen as much hate in your eyes as I see right now.”