How to text your friend, family, and ex-lovers without sounding like an absolute asshole.

Two years ago, I told my sister something that happened to me at my old job.

Humiliating, not dangerous, but the kind of thing you tell one person. She has since turned it into a story. She tells it well, and everyone laughs, including me, because what else am I going to do at an engagement party?

She's not cruel. I genuinely think she believes it's affectionate — like the story is proof of how close we are. But now this is just something people know about me. I want it to stop, and I don't want to make it a whole thing, which I realize may not be available to

me.

— Don't Wanna Be a Buzzkill, Ridgewood