Trolling bigoted relatives

[Michchamp]

This worked out better than expected.

I had a lot of letters, & xmas cards to send this past holiday season to my Old Catholic Polish-American and Italian-American relatives. I noticed the post office was offering African American heritage stamps honoring some lesser known Civil Rights heroes, and bought some. I made sure to put them on all the letters to anyone over the age of 50.

I didn't think they would notice, but boy did they ever. I actually got angry phone calls along the lines of "Hey whattayou putting this goddamn stamp on my letter, derrrr derr derrr ya sonuvabitch."

"What? It's just a stamp... I didn't even realize..."

 

[Gulo Blue]

Wow.

I got nothing to say in response, but I figured I should say "wow" so you know I'm surprised/impressed (but in a bad way.)

 

[Michchamp]

Wow.

I got nothing to say in response, but I figured I should say "wow" so you know I'm surprised/impressed (but in a bad way.)

"in a bad way" that I'd troll my own blood relatives, or that they'd notice the stamp?

 

[Gulo Blue]

"in a bad way" that I'd troll my own blood relatives, or that they'd notice the stamp?

That they'd be upset over the stamps. That's ridiculous. I'd say "troll away", but that's not even trolling. That's exposing then to the 20th century. It's kind of you to try to ease them into modern times that way. They're not going to like the 21st century if those stamps bother them.

 

[zyxt9]

That they'd be upset over the stamps. That's ridiculous. I'd say "troll away", but that's not even trolling. That's exposing then to the 20th century. It's kind of you to try to ease them into modern times that way. They're not going to like the 21st century if those stamps bother them.

I'm not sure they are even 19th Century ready. Finding out the North won and abolished slavery might be too much to handle.

 

[Michchamp]

aww now I feel bad. they're not that out of touch... they all seemed to understand I picked the stamps on purpose

 

[TheVictors]

I was going to guess that they knew it was on purpose based on some of your stories over the years and dinner conversations, etc

 

[Michchamp]

I was going to guess that they knew it was on purpose based on some of your stories over the years and dinner conversations, etc

Grandpa Michchamp definitely knew and played up the racism in response to get me back.

the others were more unsure.