"Mom, can you BELIEVE I have to work Christmas Eve???"
"Well, honey, you DO work for a supermarket. They close at six on Christmas Eve, so no huge deal."
So he'll miss 4 pm mass with the family, but we'll wait an hour for him to finish before we head off to my sister's.
I don't think he ever quite grasped before that there are people in the world who don't follow a school schedule. Sure, he knew things were open, but never really understood that people were missing other events to staff those stores and restaurants and gas stations. Living in a house with 2 teachers and 3 students, I get it. But it was still kind of a rude awakening for him.
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