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32-year-old postal worker tells his coworker to watch his favorite holiday film 'Jingle All the Way,' turns out his coworker was living the scenario in real life: 'I was intending for a lighthearted laugh...'

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  • delivery man closing cardboard box while preparing packages for holiday shipment and Jingle All the Way image
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  • "AITB for sharing my favorite Christmas movie with a coworker as he goes through the plot in real life gone wrong?

    I'm a M 32 and work full time at the United States Postal Service delivering mail year round, especially during the holiday season.
  • It pays the bills for me and at this time of the year when not agonizing over heavy Christmas parcels, it's a meaningful job to serve my community.
  • If my job didn't give it away, my all time favorite Christmas movie is "Jingle All The Way", an Arnold Schwarzenegger/Sinbad Holiday Comedy about Arnold being a neglectful 90s workaholic father trying to hunt down a toy, Turbo Man, for his son, played by Jake Lloyd, aka Young Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Meanace.
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  • Hijinks ensue that I've enjoyed since I was a child. This Christmas, my co- worker, let's call him Dave, was working next to me in the office at his route's case when he discussed how he was going to be heading out after work that day to get a bicycle for his child that night from Walmart after work.
  • Considering the situation and the fact he was postal carrier like I am, he reminded me of Sinbad's character from the movie, a workaholic father who's a letter carrier for the post office and is the main antagonist of the movie with a very accurate depiction of the mindset of a mailman at this time of the year, including the divorcé nature of many in my craft.
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  • I asked him if he had seen the movie, of which he hadn't and asked him to watch it during Christmas and get back to me today, 12/26.
  • Well... It didn't go as planned. Not only did he work late on Christmas Eve and not see the movie, of which he says he's gonna see it tonight... He didn't get the bike for his kid.
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  • The Walmart locally here closed at 6 PM for Christmas Eve and he got off from work after 6 that evening and didn't get there in time.
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  • Now I feel like a major buttface because he's gonna watch this movie and see the main characters fail at getting the toy for their kid and I just feel really bad about it given the updated situation after the fact.
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  • I was intending for a lighthearted laugh and worry that it might come. off differently than I intended it to, having thought he would get the bike, but deal with the last minute Christmas shoppers on Christmas Eve.
  • Am I the buttface for sharing my love for "Jingle All The Way" to a co-worker going through the last minute Christmas shopping, unaware he would fail in this endeavor?
  • I just feel really bad about this and would love feedback. Happy Holidays to all!
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  • Infamous_Zebra7841 WOW did reality commit to the bit. you accidentally summoned the extended universe of Jingle All The Way. Kidding xD NTB, You didn't sabotage his Christmas. Let's be clear, you didn't close Walmart at 6 PM, you didn't schedule him past closing, add you didn't steal the bike he was planning to buy. All you did was say, "Hey, this movie has mailman in it," and the universe went, "Say less." You had good intentions, peak- season brain, and tragically perfect timing. That's not be
  • DanielShG It's just a coincidence. You're NTB
  • Kimbaaaaly NTBF. I would tell him that you are no longer recommending it to him. As before a couple days ago it would have made sense but now it doesn't. Just be honest and when he asks for specifics you can tell him what you told us. You don't want to upset him and since things didn't happen as planned you're concerned it would be upsetting?
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  • BeeFree66 If a crystal ball was available, you would have had different suggestions for your coworker. Who knew things would go south? You had perfectly good ideas at that time. You love a particular movie and shared that. Your coworker can still enjoy the movie - if he chooses to. How coworker deals with a situation is up to him. He can think you're enjoying his misfortune or he can see it correctly and just say "yup, that's exactly right" and move on. It's still a good movie that's fairly accu

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