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[vent] "surely i don't need to remove my nail polish IMMEDIATELY", i thought (lemmy.ml)
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yeah well it finally happened, i got lazy. if my nails are painted, the first thing i do when getting home is clean em off... but last night i was tired and figured i could just do it in the morning. well, of course that backfired immediately - first thing that happens when i leave my room this morning is my dad seeing me heading into the bathroom with bright blue sparkly nails and a bag of cosmetics. he didn't say anything immediately, but has been weirdly sigh-y all day, and just now stuck his head in my room saying he "wants to chat" later today (extremely out-of-character) while being extremely cryptic and evasive about what exactly he wants to talk about.

(for context, although i live in switzerland, my parents are hardcore USA-an tradcaths (the kind who hate the "woke" pope). my dad has voted for trump the last 3 consecutive US elections and will do so again, has trump merch proudly on display in his room, immediately started voting for the far-right immigrant party as soon as he got his swiss citizenship, regularly goes on unprovoked angry diatribes about how much gay people disgust him, etc. you get the picture; he's pretty much the stereotype of the "far right religious nutjob". my mom is almost aggressively unopinionated about most things, and certainly doesn't make any effort to rein my dad ever)

anyway, i'm looking forward to talking with him this evening, i'm sure it'll be great fun! ಠ_ಠ

update: have managed to defer talk until "later"; we'll see where this goes (but i am prepping for a quick exit if necessary). will update again if anything interesting happens

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[-] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago

Oof

My first time getting my nails done I figured "oh yeah my family isn't that observant and I won't be interacting with them much for awhile"

Very next day, my mother asks me to help clean out a bit of my grandparents house, and hands me something, which I grab without thinking.

I could tell from the look she made she saw the polish (it was a trans flag theme with a full rainbow in the center instead of white) but she never said anything.

I plan on just responding to my family with "yeah, and? What's your point?" When they find out. They can be cool with it, or not. I'm not too attached to my family.

The only real issue is if they decide to be not cool enough to decide to kick my spouse and I out, since they own the property I live on currently.

I figure it's only a matter of time before the rest of my family finds out, I'm out at work and have actually bumped into my current brother in law at work (he was distracted and I had sunglasses on that hid most of my face since I was just walking in), and work with my sister's ex husband when there's a shift overlap.

Good luck with things, I second the "I've made friends and while out with some female friends they wanted to polish my nails and I figure why not" route

this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2026
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