What’s the most impactful ‘no’ you’ve said recently?

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1. My D&D players asked if it was possible to raise a salad from the dead as a minion.

   The answer was no.

   There was great strife and protest afterwards.

2. To all the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale emails that arrived in my inbox.

3. My silence when an ex who had been very disrespectful to me reached back out.

4. Not letting my mom use me

5. Not replying to my ex

6. For my wedding two weeks ago, to my cousin with 8 kids. “Yes, the invitation says we are reserving 2 seats in your honor. No, there’s nowhere on the website RSVP to ‘add the true number” you want to bring.” This is a small intimate wedding, but nice try for playing dumb. lol.

7. With a single “no,” I was able to destroy a student’s future and chances of being successful in college. Oh, and I trashed his dreams of becoming a vet.

   …because I wouldn’t let him retake every quiz from the semester at home, unsupervised. There will be meetings this week with angry parents and spineless admin.

8. Not watching my friend’s dog even though I was free, available, and capable. The dog just sucks, and I really didn’t want to.

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