*this is probably going to be a long one but I remembered this story recently and got pissed off and want to get it off my chest about how fucking stupid my dad is*
So at my last job I always had at least one or two queer coworkers or trans coworkers and my appearance is very mellow and conservative and I wanted to make sure they knew I was a safe place for them to be themselves and I would always use the correct pronouns etc, so I got a pin actually my sister gave it to me, a "you're safe with me" Ally pin, and I was always very careful to not bring my little work backpack that the pin was on to my parents house, one day I don't fucking know how but I somehow was stupid and brought it into my parents house and my dad noticed it and freaked the fuck out.
He gave me a lecture about it threw it away I pretended I didn't know it was there from when I bought the backpack from a thrift store etc,
And of course I love the pin but did not think about the consequences and fished it out of the garbage and took it home.
Everything was fine until the next day when my dad messaged the family group chat saying that he went through the garbage three times piece by piece and scanned the entire yard with a flashlight and couldn't find the PIN.
At this point it was bad.
(my dad is a miserable repressed gay man who's hyper fixation is belittling the queer community and this was about the worst atrocity I could have committed)
As luck would have it my little brother needed to mow the next day so our plan was to bang up the pin a little bit so it looks like it got run over by the mower and my brother would just say he ran something over and found it.
Which of course mostly worked (we should not have banged up the pin that was Overkill and made it more suspicious but I digress) but my parents were still really rattled by this whole incident.
So we prepared what to say and went over as a group to apologize and say that we would be more vigilant and God owns the rainbow etc etc
My dad was really freaking out he was thinking he would never get to see us again he was panicked about who was going to mow the yard because he didn't want us around if we were lesbians, (this is interesting to think about because I got to see a little tidbit of how my dad would react if he found out who I actually am) so we had to sit there and convince him yes we're a thousand percent straight God is good, we love dick etc etc it was so very strange and it would have been more uncomfortable if I wasn't so terrified.
The only thing I really remember saying is "I just want to take care of your feelings" lies lies lies
It was a huge strike against us and I was so stupid for my part in it but we managed to fix the situation. I just remember that night I was so scared and freaked out I sat on my couch I could not stop shaking
I sincerely hope that next year when I disappear without a word that mother fucker knows exactly why. He'll never take accountability for anything but I hope he feels like the biggest failure on Earth